Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) I’m a real fan of Craigslist.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 is always major.)

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. He’s right.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. But there are successful counter examples. So we’ll see what happens. 3 Matthew Edmondson 07.10.08

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JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. 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. I tout the benefits of open source software. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads.

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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. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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JULY 19, 2007

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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

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AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# It’s really worth a read.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming.

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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 The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Such is life. Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the presentation for this session, Doug Haslam used a screencapture of this blog post as an example of how a pr person can leave a comment to pitch a story on their client's behalf. (He Some bits from the survey: 88% of respondents plan to increase social media spending next year (no big surprise perhaps, but a commanding number).

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APRIL 18, 2007

Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? There’s no reason that OpenOffice Calc *couldn’t* take the lead and go past Excel, especially with the socialized functionality I was talking about. at 7:28 pm I’m a rather modest user of Excel or OpenOffice.org’s Calc.

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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.) BTW, I exercised great discipline and only have two social bookmarking accounts! But, I have some to do lists I need to share, and others I don’t. 3 Beth 12.01.06

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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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JUNE 27, 2008

While it isnt always practical to set up a knowledge exchange, especially if youre communicating with a large and diverse group (the "general public," for example), a two-way flow of information is widely accepted to be most effective. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) 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.

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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JUNE 5, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008.

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APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008.

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JULY 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

If they want to brag about an accomplishment (a certain number of page views or visitors to a particular campaign page, for example), that’s fine. How many people are reading our materials in their RSS readers? If you don’t see the analogy to blogging or any adoption of social media, then you’re blind.

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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. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. For example: broadcom chipsets. This is where Linux will shine.

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MARCH 3, 2009

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