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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. I promise (!) It is cross-platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. I promise (!) It is cross-platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." s boot-strapping the project with graduate students and resources scrapped together from LANL, in a very entrepreneurial manner. See Thomas Friedman?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

to my alma mater in honor of my graduation year, and have received a thank you email, letter, alumni car decal, and a second thank you letter personally written from a current student at the university. Donor management systems and technology allow for organizations to track exactly what campaigns and appeals were successful in raising money.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting. Bogii partnered with Mobicom, the largest mobile provider in Mongolia. and regional offices.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

link] October 10, 2008 | FChristie I think that this is a great contest. My idea deals with creating a more incentive-driven health system. v=cb71fk-79Uc Also, full details of my idea can be found at: www.quidproquohealthmanagement.com October 11, 2008 | Jonathan Barry my name is anandbabu and iam from vishakapatnam in india.i

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. The three primary audiences (students, educators, and artists) are clearly laid out on the left navigation bar, and a fun color-coding system makes it easy to tell which section of the site you’re in. “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com " Found your blog via Google Image search on "Snowflakes" Thanks. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities. It became a commercial company in 2008. You can check out our entire catalog of refurbished IT equipment here. How Green Is RCI?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 22, 2007

They will award two $10,000 Undergraduate Scholarships, one $10,000 Graduate Scholarship, four $2,500 Undergraduate Scholarships, and four $2,500 Graduate Scholarships to students pursuing studies in sustainable and organic agriculture. They fund projects and conduct outreach designed to improve agricultural systems.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. EHR-Integrated Performance Improvement: Uncertainty around the U.S.

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See3

JANUARY 10, 2008

The conference, geared towards established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students, is a place where leading-edge practitioners learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters. It is put on by American University’s Center for Social Media. 7-8 at American University.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

But where the magic happens is when you use your GMS—the single place for all your grantmaking processes—as a powerful customer relationship management (CRM) system as well. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018? No problem!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

I am a consultant and graduate student in complex systems and wanted an illustration of "self organization." Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com " Found your blog via Google Image search on "Snowflakes" Thanks. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. Nesson gave this annecdote.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. One Minutes - a film competition in which students and young filmmakers made one minute films on the theme of "where history begins." How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. After exhibiting the vending machine in our entrance building, we found it was used by a cross-section of our audience: families, day-trippers, pupils and students.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I,

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. Another part was that many nonprofits didnt have systems in place to track and allocate expenses accurately. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Whether they implement a system, or build it, they will inevitably have the job of supporting that technology. 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. Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Meet with your support system. For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

But I have yet to find a school that has *any* idea how to spend money on technology to actually educate students. The best I’ve seen is schools that can reasonably provide technology support for staff and students’ work: “productivity&# applications and web access, basically. 2 Michelle Murrain 04.09.07

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyday, people across the country mentor students, beautify neighborhoods, help older Americans to live independently, restore homes after disasters, and much more. increased by 60 percent from 593,802 in 1998 to 947,274 in 2008 (IRS. 2008, making 2009 the largest single-year increase in the number of. communities.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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