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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 27, 2008
I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software. And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 11, 2008
What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09 at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 19, 2008
I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 19, 2007
And I also spent lots of time wrestling with the demons of consultancy and for-profit-hood (or “for-little-profit-hood&# as one consultant once put it.) I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. And, I think I did that.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 19, 2007
We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit.
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