Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. And yes, it would be cheating to make that a separate blog entry!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. Make sure access is secure. at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { One such platform was Typepad.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

A while ago, when I was still developing web applications, I wrote a wiki plug-in for this behemothic open source CMS/Web database system that I wrote, and has (mercifully) died a slow death (there are still a few installations of it in use, hopefully soon to be retired.) There is a DokuWiki plugin available. 2 admin 11.26.07

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