Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out.

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APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need.

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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 also work with animal shelters and animal-related causes, as well as with the arts, whether it’s museums, education, or other types of art institutions.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively.

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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. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. Instead what would it look like if everyone on staff, especially leadership, actively participated in furthering the organization’s mission online?

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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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APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Free Range tells great stories that inspire, educate and activate.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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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. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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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. From my perspective, the key is openness. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Best.

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read.

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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.) 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07 And, Canonical also provides professional support.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. Results: The concept of Red House 2009 was in sharp contrast to concepts of the past.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

And with all open source projects, we really haven’t seen the demand or user participation in expanding the APIs… it is not that CiviCRM can’t have platform neutral APIs, we’d rather focus on building things our installed base will actively use.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Chicago – April 3, 2009 – Continuing its growth as a national provider of interactive services to the nonprofit and cause community, See3 Communications proudly announces the addition of Shirley Sexton to its team as Director, Interactive Marketing and Fundraising. About See 3 Communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? at 5:48 am Sure, I put Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology on Quantcast – I was curious to see what would happen. 2 admin 09.18.07 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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JANUARY 15, 2008

The winner will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to the 2009 NTC to be held in San Francisco. Videos can be from a wide variety of issue and interest areas including (but not limited to) activism, environment, education, disability, economic development, human services, international development, health, and the arts.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Cause Camp is Nonprofit Hub’s annual conference, bringing the best and the brightest from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, to inspire, educate and transform nonprofits of all shapes and sizes, from all over the world. We’re particularly excited about the speaker lineup for 2017 and hope to see you March 27th and 28th.

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MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. The first question in the September volunteer supplement asks “Since September 1st of last year, have you done any volunteer activity through or for an organization?&# We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. What are your answers to these questions?

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JULY 26, 2007

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. I agree with Beth that a dollar value alone cant determine whether using online social networking is a worthwhile activity, which is why Ive also included time and geek knowledge in my formula.

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JULY 17, 2007

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. I agree with Beth that a dollar value alone cant determine whether using online social networking is a worthwhile activity, which is why Ive also included time and geek knowledge in my formula.

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MAY 15, 2009

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 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 All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. I agree with Beth that a dollar value alone cant determine whether using online social networking is a worthwhile activity, which is why Ive also included time and geek knowledge in my formula.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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