Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Our Kids’ Climate is a global collaboration of 58 climate-parent groups from 23 countries, working together to engage parents, caretakers, and families in climate action. Learn about the problem, the effects, and the solutions. Tenacity — Climate change is not a quick-fix problem, and building a movement takes time.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

If you’re running peer-to-peer campaigns, it’s important to strike a balance between growing your peer-to-peer fundraising programs and working with limited resources. . Ask yourself these questions, take notes, and work with your website manager to make improvements : Is it clear what I should do if I want to learn more, register, or donate?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The documents show that as recently as 2008 ERI was quietly selling large volumes of e-waste to a Los Angeles exporter who shipped it to Hong Kong. The activities of greenwashing companies like this tend to discredit legitimate electronics reuse work. Much of it was labeled as reusable electronics. read more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. I recently finished reading A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Gotta work on that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. I gave up.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Here at Qgiv we have dozens of incredible women to celebrate and recognize—their achievements and hard work have helped advance us as a tech company in the nonprofit sector. Qgiv: How did you end up working in the tech industry? Women can bring a different viewpoint and a problem-solving skillset that’s needed within the field.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Question: Do you believe someone is more likely to be a successful entrepreneur if they previously worked in a non-entrepreneur business? All three types can be gained by working for a big company before launching a venture. On the supply side, we’ve learned a lot about working from home. Eisenmann : The show is terrific!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period. Incredibly, the high-quality work continued to flow from Daproim uninterrupted. No problem!

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. In general, the phone actually works quite well. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. However, the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. But for the long term, this is not going to even begin to solve our problems. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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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 spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X No happiness for me. 4 admin 03.01.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. She is also an orphan and lived in the same orphanage as my daughter) The problem was I didn't have any idea of how I was going to make a donation of that size after exhausting all my offline networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. But for the long term, this is not going to even begin to solve our problems. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

But, I have been following Michele Martin’s work on The Bamboo Project Blog with some interest. But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Like many who work in this sector, I cared more about the missions of my clients than I did about my own income, although I also needed to put food on the table. It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# and “We’ve designed Yugma to work seamlessly between Mac, Windows and Linux.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu.

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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. I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08

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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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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

It is very clear now that this pandemic is likely to affect our work for the foreseeable future. We have the answer, not just a problem. We shouldn’t just go to our donors with a problem and expect them to fix it with money. Work with mid-level donors.

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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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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem. If your organization’s peer-to-peer fundraising team doesn’t seem to be working as efficiently as it seems like it should be, it might be time for new software. As your organization evolves, it’s not uncommon for technology that once met your needs to no longer work for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

The major problem I found with ActiveCollab wasn’t open source vs. not but the fact that it wasn’t getting updated very often. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. Almost all of our development work goes into the community version. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 Mitchell 10.25.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. So, I did some research, and realized that the best choice for me was to get a Thinkpad – most everything works right out of the box.

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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 3, 2009

If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. 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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

At TechSoup, we’re always interested in how nonprofits cleverly solve IT problems. Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

First problem: Linux address books … suck. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. Linux has server market (check) Linux is working on the browser market (checK) Linux has apps that work for addresses and also integreates with other apps well (BUZZ! It was great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

But the roof works fine. Pandora works dandy. Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. The install was very smooth, except the guy had to chip off a bunch of ice off of the roof. It didn’t start out bad. down, and 256K up.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

I think these mashups are tremendously helpful to organizations working to make real change in their communities, allowing them to more dynamically tell their story and make their case in a compelling way to supporters, funders, and the community at large. What was your favorite innovation from 2008? Community Movement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once they saw how meaningful that work was, they kept coming back. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. Rather than focusing exclusively on your day-to-day work, you start to bring the insights you’ve learned from your pro bono experience back to your job.

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