2008 and Script - Nonprofit Technology

It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology It’s my social graph, darn it!

Open Source

Open Source Social Facebook Script

Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

Open Source

Open Source Open Tools Free

Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

Platform

Platform Benefit Open Open Source

Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 Have you experienced the same?

Analytics

Analytics Google Site Folksonomy

Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform. Apache Derby – a DBMS written entirely in Java. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.

Open Source

Open Source Database Open Language

Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform. Apache Derby – a DBMS written entirely in Java. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.

Open Source

Open Source Database Open Language

Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

In the sense that there isn’t a way to, for instance, add the same bookmark to several social bookmarking sites at once (there is, however, a cool greasemonkey script that allows you to copy del.icio.us and other of it’s acquisitions – adding another good reason to switch away from del.icio.us.) bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

Bookmarking

Bookmarking Web Social API

ePhilanthropy: 10 Valuable Tips for Shooting Web Video - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

MAY 1, 2008

Heres the outline: Tell a story Keep the audience in mind Make a clear call to action Shoot video with repurposing in mind Think outside the box Prepare a script and get some feedback B-roll is important Sound is critical Give the viewer the right web tools Host a screening To get the details, read the full article. All rights reserved.

Social Media

Social Media Video Advocacy Web

TXT for (Increased) Success

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. HSUS had already built a mobile subscriber list of about 12,000 activists through Mobile Commons by December of 2008.

United States

United States Mobile Test Advocacy

Blog Action Day: 4 Ways to Alleviate Poverty in Your Community

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% As a Portland Hotel Society resident said when asked to describe what was really happening in his community, "Lots of sadness no Hollywood script could do." of Oakland residents are living in poverty.

Action

Action Portland Oakland Community

The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

To that end, there's an added incentive for this pilot stage (through June 2008): $5000 to any exhibit concept deemed spectacular enough to develop into a real exhibit here at The Tech. We are offering museum tours every day at 11am (today at 3pm), and build and script classes each day (starting Thursday) at noon.

Museum

Museum Virtual Tech Second Life

How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds. I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. It was exhausting, stressful work, and I loved it. Share your ideas.

Museum

Museum Boston Participatory Job

Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Unfortunately, the most recent trend, which I have experienced all too much (and I’m sure you all have too), is to simply follow a script with the person who needs support. Providers have many different ways of handling that challenge.

Teach

Teach Support Technology Empowerment

Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

Social Media

Social Media Media Social Flickr

Nonprofit Technology

It’s my social graph, darn it!

Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Trending Sources

Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Open Source Database solutions part I

Open Source Database solutions part I

Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

ePhilanthropy: 10 Valuable Tips for Shooting Web Video - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

TXT for (Increased) Success

Blog Action Day: 4 Ways to Alleviate Poverty in Your Community

The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

How I Got Here

Technology Support as Teaching

Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

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