Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). I track the ROI a few ways. (1)

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APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! {

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MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! {

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APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. And Katya tells us why Seth Godin is right about people being lazy and in a hurry, and gives us some tips on how to use that. at 12:13 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 robert guinto 04.19.08

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AUGUST 13, 2008

I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! I “live the open source lifestyle.&#

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APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

But, a very nice soul at MayFirst/people-link, where we house the NOSI site, set up Limesurvey for us, so we’re using that. I had originally done the survey in Surveymonkey , which is a slick on-line survey tool. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. It’s a LAMP stack application.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

Like all social networks, they are only as usable as people in your social graph use it, and it’s pretty sparse for me right now. at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 So I’m on identi.ca

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MARCH 9, 2008

1 trackback } Boy in the Bands » Blog Archive » Because the power of the Internet increases as people get connected. at 9:01 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Robin 03.16.08 Update: I’ve been using it now as my default browser for the last day or so, and it is really growing on me. { A true gift!

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding.

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OCTOBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Making a better, more findable blog October 24, 2007 I’ve gotten some nice kudos for my blog in the past few days, and it feels nice to know that people read the blog, and get something out of it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc. It’s also scriptable.

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MARCH 10, 2008

But I have really come to believe that the way that we work with people is as important as the “final&# outcome. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 03.10.08 Hopefully the fact that you asked gets people to realize that it’s something important to do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 I am an avid Wiki user. Updating it to Creole 1.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

So how did people like these? I also have to wonder (shudder) how many home grown Access and Filemaker databases fall into the “Other&# category of the survey, almost 20% of the total. They ranked the percentage of folks who would recommend a package. And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. {

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AUGUST 13, 2008

A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media. No, I didn’t go soft in the head (well, some people might think so.) Not only are Gen Y and Millenials engaged in these social networks, but a wider and broader range of people are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

I think that people are getting wary of social networks where they have no control over their own data. This, of course, doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, everyone’s social graph and data will become portable, but it’s a very good sign that perhaps, after all, things are moving in that direction.

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JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. Bittorrent is a bit of an arcane art (and, of course, getting a bit of a bad rep, since it’s the major avenue for P2P pirating.) It is cross-platform and written in Java (and, I think, shows off the strength of the Java framework.)

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

It all sounds like LinkedIn wants to pull all of those people who have been migrating to Facebook back into their fold, with the idea that LinkedIn is serious about business. Also, they have a partnership with Business Week – so you can see how you are connected to companies and indivuals covered by clicking on links.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

NTEN is trying to get a handle on all of this, and find out what people use, and how much they like what they use. I can’t wait to get my grubby little fingers on the data on CiviCRM and Salesforce. So, let your voice be heard! Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do? OK, enough of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

So the model that I am coming up with is a combination of that model, and what I would call an “inquiry based&# model – helping people in a more structured way come up with specific questions and problems before the event, and then use the event to collaboratively answer those questions, and solve those problems.

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JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. 2 admin 06.11.08

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JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. at 2:16 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Eugene Chan 01.04.08 Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)?

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. This broken, very imperfect, very problematic, and quite capitalist world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. So what’s the story?

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JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. 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

OCTOBER 9, 2007

The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Can’t share books – I like to loan out my books to people. I want something like a Kindle that: Has wifi (EVDO would be a nice addition, but some of us live in areas where the EVDO network does not go) Allows me to share books with people. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Elwing 11.26.07

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Donating products to charities helps corporate bottom lines, reduces waste in landfills, and provides relief for people in need. " Is email going out with 2011? ." " Is email going out with 2011?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It was the hottest “buzz word&# of the last decade — And if you ask ten people to describe it, you could get ten very different answers. " Deadline: January 31, 2010. It's a must-read! "Collaboration.

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