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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Chrome September 4, 2008 The hiatus is over with a short entry about Google Chrome , the new browser from Google that I learned about on the twitterverse while I was stopped at one rest stop or another.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. All really great stuff.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

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. In fact, that is far from the case.) Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. {

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. Check out the forums of email list archives of that project.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work.

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JANUARY 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP.

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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. It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 at 2:42 am Hmmm, I am not sure that open source opensocial applicaions would matter so much.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. 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.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out.

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[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The social media team maintains an internal document within its shared Google Drive folder called the “NYCEAC Internal Resource List.” The resource list is really the “go to document for all things online.”

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APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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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. I do demand a lot of my system.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. What methods do you employ to eliminate unwanted documents and media?

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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. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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APRIL 18, 2007

The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2] Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Interesting post, thanks for clarifying our list rates vs. NP rates.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

We like what the delicious mirror API (named Mirrord) can do in porting existing applications, which is happening and documented on our blog. Finally, speaking of the API, we also have our regular one which is fairly robust and a great way to take advantage of the more unique aspects that we have going. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06

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JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. However, by equipping youth with donated GPS units and by using the tools and data repositories provided by the OpenStreetMap project, the Map Kibera project has been able to document huge portions of the community, cataloging resources, and providing a foundation for future development work.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. However, by equipping youth with donated GPS units and by using the tools and data repositories provided by the OpenStreetMap project, the Map Kibera project has been able to document huge portions of the community, cataloging resources, and providing a foundation for future development work.

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JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Epic Change is no different.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Also, we posted the slides from our talk on the integration here: [link] We’re working on some additional documentation and screencasts as well as a distribution of Plone that includes the salesforce.com integration ready to go! 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09 Look for that shortly.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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JUNE 6, 2011

By Annaliese Hoehling, Publications Director, NTEN. Since around 2008, the Community Manager has become a position in high demand in the business and nonprofit sectors. I also informally polled the NTEN community. And "she" would probably have been a "he" – but I digress.). What's the difference?

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MARCH 18, 2010

Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. This week, Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace which allowed us to provide single sign on for some services we already use, such as Box.net for document storage. Which leads me to.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. This week, Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace which allowed us to provide single sign on for some services we already use, such as Box.net for document storage. Which leads me to.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

And in 2010, online giving is expected to bring in more donations than ever, after having seen a 46% increase in online revenue between 2008 and 2009. The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. Tags: Community CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN. "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This blogger writes with a personal flair, highlighting photos, statistics, government documents to comment on social and economic conditions there. Much of Sullivan's talk followed his important "Why I Blog" piece written in November 2008. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Blog as a Broadcast.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. Usahidi , an interactive map-based information collection tool was born out of a need to capture and report post-election violence during Kenya’s 2008 presidential elections. Usahidi means testimony.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). NTEN / Washington, DC / $850. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. 2016 MNN Annual Conference. 2016 MNN Annual Conference. Mar 23 - 25.

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