Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup." Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. What is public? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good. I need to figure out a good network configuration. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. I did feel that the vendors had a small tendency to indicate some concern about security when asked about openness.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? One of the potential uses of Twitter is as a “back channel&# for events and the like. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. This past year, U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. Are you eating well?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Third, I want to invite people to participate in a conversation about how this could be done differently. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. (I Thanks for starting the conversation, Michelle.

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MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Sometimes, even with larger providers, they manage to get around this by having detailed logs of conversations with you. I recently blogged about shortsightedness and one example in that entry was me not providing education as tech support when I probably should have: [link].) But with smaller providers it certainly is.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Viva the distributed conversation!

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

TransparencyCamp strengthened my own commitment to support President Obamas tech policy , but also strengthened my resolve to hold him and his administration accountable if they fall short. The Open Planning Project : OpenPlans is the simple way to bring groups together, promote your cause, make plans, manage projects, and get things done.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. We are becoming so dependent on Big Tech that we are starting to believe that there are no alternatives to the big monopolistic platforms. 9</sup). trillion in assets.

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