Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { I even decided not to buy Leopard for my Mac Mini.

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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. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. First problem: Linux address books … suck. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. It was great.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. For example, you have your HR team who focuses on employee engagement, and a philanthropy team focused on giving back. The second is that there is an opportunity to achieve goals across multiple functions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 2 phil jones 04.19.07

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

We, as nonprofit leaders, have problems to solve. Big problems. And good data management can help us solve those problems more effectively by allowing us to make better business decisions, collaborate more effectively, and engage the public and our clients in solving the problem, too. Clearly a problem, right?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

TapIt is a great example, though, of a successful approach: take a small action, the benefits are real and tangible, and soon your behavior has changed (and you have hopefully also encouraged others around you to do the same)! Café owners sign up as ‘partners’ to provide tap water to those who carry a reusable bottle.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

There is good evidence that the report itself has become an example of conflict of interest and greenwashing, especially in its omission of the green IT brand, EPEAT. Our GreenTech Initiative has been very interested in understanding greenwashing since we started the program in 2008.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S., The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. BRCK deals with the problem of frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Many of the organizations offer housing assistance as their core service, for example, and are serving thousands of families with limited resources, knowledge, or skills related to technology. The NTIA Toolkit provides several examples of organizations like SDFF that have pioneered, developed, and adopted the successful model.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.) So, can you solve my to do list problem? :-) And I’m grabbing the sunscreen already! But, I have some to do lists I need to share, and others I don’t.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line. Everything that a tech person deals with on a daily basis revolves around problem solving.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. What lessons or examples do you want to share? Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He talked about changes in technology and fashion. He gave examples from cigarette and nutrition labels. He also shared some corporate examples of change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2009

Fast forward two months, and not only has the problem not been suppressed, Downadup aka Conficker has evolved and its variations have grown more sophisticated and potentially more virulent. Back in January, we blogged about the Downadup worm on the rampage. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. Hunger isn't just a problem in America. The Donors Choose blog action campaign and BlogAction Day have been stellar examples.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. But youve really hit the nail on the head here with the real-world examples. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

For example, most California DV organizations provide shelter and related support services, which are funded primarily through government sources—typically about 75% of their total revenue. Between 2000 and 2008, this revenue mix provided stability and the opportunity to grow, due to gradual increases in overall government funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He gave examples from cigarette and nutrition labels. He also shared some corporate examples of change. The examples made the point: Your colleagues will change if they feel something.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2011

The complexity of the problems we face in the world out-paces the ability of any individual organisation to address them. For example, should we give more focus to finding alternatives that tap the power of networks such as ‘crowd-funding’, which not only bring in money, but it also power the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. My problem has been retrieval. You can browse, organize, or search one RSS Feed or many. For example, for my blog I can create an index with key words organized by concept just for my blog or for all blogs.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He gave examples from cigarette and nutrition labels. He also shared some corporate examples of change. The examples made the point: Your colleagues will change if they feel something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. Nick from Social Times adds: My biggest problem with the standard so far has been that it???s s not easy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Trust me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

One interesting example of how community building in the open source world mirrors the methodologies of nonprofits is the "book sprint" phenomenon, where teams of volunteers gather (in person and remotely) to write user guides. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Real-life Examples. Two excellent examples of effective online communications are AIDS.gov and DC Central Kitchen. Our blog highlights examples from people in the HIV community using new media tools in response to HIV. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

or a good example of how silly the term "follower" is?). Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. It's a good post that is representative of her powerful writing (mostly focused on the performing arts).

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