Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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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 ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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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. I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. I even decided not to buy Leopard for my Mac Mini. And, for the most part, I’ve been happy.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Strategy is knowing your organization’s business model. There are a number of good resources out there for mapping your organization’s business model, including The Business Model Canvas. What is their business model? 1] David La Piana, “The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution,” Fieldstone Alliance (2008): 32-33.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. .&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model.

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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. Though I think Plone’s developers are conscientious about security, it’s really Zope’s security model that keeps add-on developers from routinely shooting everyone in the foot.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And I also struggled with the consulting business model. &# I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features. But that was a pale shadow of the kind of work and contact I wanted with my clients. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. On MoreBirthdays.com, people can support, give, and celebrate surviving cancer or loved ones by creating a birthday wish through e-cards, music video, or musician phone call.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

It is commercial, but it has a kind of pay-as-you-go pricing model. However, I came across [link] recently via a regular technology email news letter to which I subscribe It seems a nice offering. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the need to use it yet, as most of the conferences I attend online are sponsored by my clients.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Reading it you get the sense that these folks just won’t face the music. Their business model is near death and they better move faster to preserve whatever value they still have. 11 Feb 2008 Michael Hoffman Michael, thank you for your reply. 11 Feb 2008 Michael P. Not to mention the environmental issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Simply put: we don’t make any assumptions about how you’re modeling your data, we just let you grab it as you need to. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. You can’t tell it, I need a join here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Is there a business model that will make this work? I’m really not sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

February 18, 2008 This is a rant. Should we be able to achieve a migration to drupal or one of the other open-source models? Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology No more custom CMS! And it is a rant on behalf of the hundreds (thousands?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

And there are other models – SugarCRM is a model of a for-profit company that has a community version – so more people can contribute and benefit from their software. In fact, many, many successful, usable, high quality software projects are not backed by shareholder investment at all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

at 4:30 pm Michelle: I wonder what you think of David G’s framing of the content model issue. Looking forward to more comments and posts in this vein. Catherine 4 Beth Kanter 04.13.07 link] This resonated for me: “Content is no longer a value generator… it is a consumer capturer. 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And so for some organizations, going to a hybrid model, which I’ll talk about for a little bit is going to be most advantageous to the health of your organization. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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MARCH 4, 2008

While we in the not-for-profit world are looking at how the Obama campaign can be a model for what we are doing with issues and organizations, those in the advertising industry are also taking note. But the Black Eyed Peas made this great music video about Obama. and new media to energize and engage supporters.

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