Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. High bandwidth to your home or office is a necessary requirement to cloud computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09

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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. Have a look at the demo.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once they saw how meaningful that work was, they kept coming back. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. LG: Definitely. That’s been a really big shift in volunteering over the last few years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Asserting yourself at work is often the missing piece to success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

But the roof works fine. Pandora works dandy. Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. The install was very smooth, except the guy had to chip off a bunch of ice off of the roof. It didn’t start out bad. down, and 256K up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Things “just work&# (for the most part – apparently Leopard has been having issues.) I’d gasp if I read this a couple of years ago. The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. Heck, yeah, I could easily argue it will help them in their work. Sure, why not.

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JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Well, good afternoon, everybody. You want to get rid of all that burnout if we can. Thanks for being here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr. It can also work well for nonprofits that respond to natural disasters or crises.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. I guess if you want privacy from casual observers, then a “walled garden&# works. at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Vickie Davis, CoolCatTeacher Blog, let her students dump water on her and then taught them a lesson on fundraising for a good cause and about ALS. Involving younger people in your organization’s campaigns, as champions, perhaps as part of a lesson on philanthropy is definitely something that can be replicated in other campaigns. (5)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

A very different context than I, or most people reading this work in, for sure. He feels that there is an inherent conflict of interest in working for time – it is in the consultants interest to spend more time on the project, regardless of the outcome. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I guess that’s where it gets interesting when you work with a CMS, right? It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. And we use plone for a lot of things in the organization I work for now. Four or five clicks later, tada! Um, sorta.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008. &# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. 3 We are a youth summer program.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. This week, I'm summarizing everyone else's ideas about the best trends of the decade. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ). Did you know that mobile web use increased by 230% between 2008 and 2009? [1] And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. link] There is also a FireFox toolbar to go with it. 3 Beth 09.27.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. These agencies typically worked on big, multi-year retainers and weren''t flexible enough to do smaller jobs. we haven''t made it to yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

It was from April, 2008! They were working together in teams to apply their knowledge to design an outreach event that also incorporated social media. I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information. At that time, the audience skewed younger.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. These agencies typically worked on big, multi-year retainers and weren''t flexible enough to do smaller jobs. we haven''t made it to yet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. These agencies typically worked on big, multi-year retainers and weren''t flexible enough to do smaller jobs. we haven''t made it to yet.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

But there are definitely places where I could do better. I work long days and don’t always have time to exercise.” “I work long days and don’t always have time to exercise.” Whatever she suggested, I had a reason why it just wouldn’t work. For the most part, I do relatively well with all of this maintenance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. There is one additional point I want to make: On some topics that may not have wide resonance yet, there is, by definition little traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

by Philanthropy 2173 Blog (Lucy Bernholz) who asked, "Texting votes to American Idol is old hat - will it work for giving?" The campaign was also noted.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

WCS-Mongolia had not previously worked with this group, and this section of the community is often unknown and hidden. The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting.

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