Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Here’s why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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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 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

But I have to admit the bastardized language thing (“hai, I iz doin stuf&# ) just isn’t funny to me. Really, I am. Except, well, I just don’t get this LOL* pheonomena. I have to admit I’m a sucker for cute pictures of kittens. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 Silicon Valley’s newly wealthy philanthropists and community based organizations lack information about one another, don’t use the same language or models, and don’t move in the same circles, leading to an empathy gap.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Jumo’s received a very warm welcome and a lot of press being that the founder Chris Hughes was also the co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. ammado supports 76 currencies and 12 languages. 6) 1% Club – [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Emphasis was placed on making information actionable, accessible, and bite-sized to fit into the lifestyle of a small-scale farmer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. When you’re live and in the room, you can observe body language and adjust accordingly. The body language code was as follows: ! It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. . * Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

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. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. So much innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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MARCH 7, 2008

Which is worse I wonder… 7 Mar 2008 juxtaposed I am not sure which language’s grammar rules you are using, but they are not those of any written English Language. 7 Mar 2008 daniel hartman 297 10 Mar 2008 Holly De Ruyter One more of me. Incidentally, I am the only one of my kind in the USA.

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JANUARY 8, 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 Michael Hoffman JAN 8, 2008 What makes a good blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. There were slightly less crossed-legs and arms and more curiosity and questions like, “What are the best practices?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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MAY 29, 2009

2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report. We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service. Just think of the nonprofit applications. No, really: think of them, then implement them. Proof that Roombas really work ! There have been a lot of releases over the past month.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

He made a comment on Michael Kaiser's fairly formulaic "great artists lead the nation" post, laying bare the banality of most of the language used to describe and present art experiences to the public. 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.

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MAY 22, 2008

May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. You can download the report here. Thanks for spreading the word! All rights reserved.

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MAY 22, 2008

May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. You can download the report here. Thanks for spreading the word! All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

The only public pool in the city of Santa Cruz was closed in the 2008 recession for four years. When you are on the inside, this doesn’t sound like inclusive language. I thought of the Elks Lodge community as a bunch of elderly guys at the bar. Then my friend explained: it was all about the pool. We need to be more inclusive.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Speaking your donors’ language — lose the jargon! And they regularly maintain and update their database. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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JANUARY 27, 2011

What was also interesting was that these tech leaders planned to spend less on day-to-day operations and spend more on investing in innovation and growth through cloud computing operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. This past year, U.S. Privacy and Security. My Prediction: The U.S.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Speaking your donors’ language — lose the jargon! And they regularly maintain and update their database. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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JUNE 20, 2011

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. Some messages sent by Epic Change via their 180+ JustCoz participants would get zero response.

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