Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 How bleeding edge do we need to be? {

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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JUNE 10, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. of women in FLOSS?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07 It’s designed as a basecamp clone. However, that won’t happen. “bad&# companies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I''ve never taken a break from blogging before. Every week for almost seven years, I''ve made sure to get new content up on the blog. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Karel Lukas 08.24.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit How To’s @ This Week’s Carnival 09.26.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Bad Blogger! (I

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JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) OpenSocial is a set of APIs. It’s aimed primarily at developers.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08 at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { I think I can write something up. 3 Beth Kanter 08.15.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer). WebHuddle is free, and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Those articles are now up on our blog, and the most popular -- as determined by page views, time on page, and number of comments and retweets -- will be featured in our November newsletter later this month. A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. It has been 7 years since I started blogging. My blog has always been my playground. Blogging is no exception. No matter how hard I tried to make it easier, blogging is still a chore. Leave a comment » I'm not alone.it Not anymore.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. So I’m stuck where I don’t want to be (where lots of nonprofits are) with a data integration problem that I can’t solve right now, and likely won’t get solved for years.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Who Tweets? Who Tweets?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

(I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) The next step was to get online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The second book, called “ Elements of Persuasion &# is a book that was sent to me for free – someone thought that I might want to review it on my blog. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 10.22.07 It’s worth a read, I think, if you have a message to get across. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

First, there’s the blogging issue. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. Second, is bookmarking.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

There’s More to a Millennial than Updating Your Profile « - Here is a great response to a recent PRSA blog post that, in my opinion, took the premise that Millennial staffers are great as tools for social media but, gasp, heaven forbit they represent your organization! These are some links I wanted to share from September 19th.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

This is where I give props to announcements and activities about NTEN members. You can see their tagline and Nancy Schwartz 's comments -- oh, and submit YOUR ORG's tag line -- here ! Laura Norvig ( ETR Associates ) guest posts on Beth Kanter 's blog, writing about Friendfeed for nonprofit use. David Neff 's Lights.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 at 10:17 pm Hi all, We’ve developed XLsuite which combines CRM with CMS and includes things like blogs and forums. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Check it out! "So

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With 300 million active users, Facebook is a natural starting place. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. and Canada.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This community is one of Ubuntu’s great strengths, in terms of the ability to find helpful and sometimes instant support (via an incredibly active set of IRC channels.) They have mentorship programs, they are building regional networks, they have almost unparalleled bulletin board, email and IRC community support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They just marked their 150th first-person story on their blog , so in the 150 hours leading up to Labor Day, @GoodwillIntl is tweeting out one of these success story per hour under the hashtag #150job to spotlight someone who has found work, education or volunteer opportunities with support from Goodwill. . How are you defining success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

For most organizations, almost one-third of all online actions are taken by the most active subscribers who comprise about 7% of the list. May 14, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski "the total dollars raised online increased by only 26%" Id say an increase of total dollars raised of 26% year over year is huge. Segment, test and repeat.

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