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JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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MARCH 17, 2008

And of course, there is Penguin Day !! I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC.

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MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. I have found this invaluable as a way to move forward in my course of study.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. NTEN did a great job of beginning to approach this topic, and it was great data. And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points.

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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. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased. Also, we have been accused in creating a biased survey.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. She suggests not to panic, and not to change course – keep steady, and keep communicating.

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MAY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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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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OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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JUNE 17, 2008

Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition.

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MAY 18, 2007

Of course, we all know that many of these patents were dubious to begin with – UI and business process patents that had no business being granted to anyone in the first place. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Then, of course, there are blogs , and podcasts , and video , and. NTEN's own Holly Ross suggests a simple formula: (Time & Money Saved + Money Earned) - (Time & Money In) = ROI. Or the Women's Museum. Flickr makes it easy to get started! ways to tell a story. Determine the ROI of Social Media.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That, of course, can spread virally. Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. A company (or organization, or individual) can set up a public page (so it does not require a Facebook account to see it). Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Microsoft is in an interesting place with their cash cow, Office.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. 2 admin 07.11.08

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, OpenSocial has blown the doors off of all of this, and what’s come out of it is quite interesting. Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Of course, the API was only one part of Convio’s initiative, so I do still think they come out ahead, a bit. I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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AUGUST 12, 2007

In a sense, of course, if you are a technology provider and you install Linux on some servers or desktops in an organization, you are “reselling&# Linux. Which, of course, is why most people buy Red Hat, instead of installing Fedora or Debian, etc. So they take RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and repackage it.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. at 10:33 am You say that we live in a quite capitalist world, as if it is a bad thing.

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JULY 9, 2007

It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. at 5:36 am I was reading though this post thinking about Evolution until, of course, you mentioned it. There are basically three options. 1) Since I’m using Thunderbird as my email client, I could use that as my addressbook.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Of course, like all open source software, it is “free as in kittens&# – but this particular kitten is pretty grown up, and already spayed and litter trained. So, here’s the great news: Hot on the heels of Microsoft missing the ISO boat , IBM is lending their weight to the OpenOffice.org suite. (In

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I’ve been doing a lot of technical writing – I just put the finishing touches on my third of three articles for LASA’s ICT Hub Knowledgebase , I’m writing an article on Open Office Base for the next issue of Linux Identity Magazine , and, of course, I’ve been busy writing the NOSI primer.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

So there was the saga of migrating my data from Apple’s proprietary address book to Evolution (and of course, dealing with the beast that Evolution is.) And, to top it off, I had to make things more complicated last week, because I decided to get a Palm PDA again. found a great, really cheap E2 on Ebay.)

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

So running RHEL on Amazon E2 is a potentially low-cost, low-pain way for nonprofits (with appropriate levels of tech staff, of course) to dip their toes into hosting complex applications on Linux, without having that noisy box in the corner. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I have owned about a dozen Macintosh computers (or clones) over the course of 20 years. I have been an Apple user since 1980, and a Macintosh owner since 1987. I still own a Mac mini, which I expect will be my last Macintosh, and I won’t be upgrading that Mac mini to Leopard. Those of you who are loyal Mac users are gasping.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 Second, is bookmarking. And I like and use to do lists.

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