Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This blog is rated 8.2 at 2:27 pm My blog has also been rated an 8.2 at blogged.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

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). Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead.

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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. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! 2 Jack 08.07.08

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. The next step was to get online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

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

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08

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MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions."

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities. Who Tweets?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 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

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. 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. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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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.) at 1:15 pm Open Social ! OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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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

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. I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms. The post Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 2 admin 09.18.07

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

This is not so far on the heels of the acquisition of Get Active by Convio. If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

They both have good documentation and active communities. at 6:56 pm Top 10 blog posts of 2008 :: Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.26.08 Looking at Ohloh , Cake is more popular than Symfony (on Ohloh, who knows about in general), but Symfony has a lot more developers (81 vs 17).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

We’ve seen a lot of activity from non-profits and we’re excited that we can help! That’s kinda cool. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Drew Garcia 10.01.07 at 6:00 pm Michelle, Thanks for the post on TimeBridge. There is a “feedback&# link at the top of every TimeBridge application page.

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MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

There is no reason that both national and local governments cannot be more active in creating, funding, and supporting platform cooperatives, and involving cooperative leaders in blue-ribbon task forces regarding how best to reform and regulate monopolistic Big Tech. Already, some platform cooperatives have a global presence.

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