Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

This is a free event. Second, we're co-sponsoring and helping plan the eDemocracy2 Camp in DC on Sunday, April 19 (one day before the 2009 Politics Online Conference). This is a free event. Fourth, we're hosting a session on data visualization at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

NetSquared is the guest host of The Feast’s next Twitter chat about the power of social media for social good. We may be the host, but we need all of you to join us to make the conversation interesting! We may be the host, but we need all of you to join us to make the conversation interesting! Join us for a chat!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Though your top peer-to-peer fundraisers can often account for one-third to half of the total amount raised, how much are they actually involved in your event? Let them know their input is important, and make it easy for them to feel involved and invested in the success of the event. Update them on the final event results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. The event itself has been fab. What are the tools like? Check out the wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08 Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. A large chunk (the majority?) But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? Linux on the desktop has come quite far, in just a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. I think given the audience that NOSI is reaching, and wants to reach, a concrete, well thought out Web 2.0 So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, please do. { 1 trackback } Web 2.0 So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, please do. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW! I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). Updating it to Creole 1.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The date was sometime in 1995. I have to ask, why would you think that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. 3 Jill 01.31.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06 Check this out [link] Leave a Comment Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants coming here! October 27, 2006 Next week, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is hosted here! at 1:34 pm Michelle, Just curious what you thought/opinion is of widgets?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2011

The online event is hosted by our TechSoup Global Network Partner in Brazil, Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN). From the event site: What is a "jam"? Answers/ comments can be posted throughout the day, in times of greater convenience of participants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. You should be regularly photographing and recording videos at important events that your nonprofit hosts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I set up a mysql database in my standard generic virtual hosting setup, copied the downloaded and unzipped Joomla folder into my webspace by FTP, and fired up my browser. Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07 Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface. 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda. Where Twestival Global focused all of its energy on one cause, on one day; Twestival Local, taking place the weekend of 10-13 September 2009, has the potential to impact hundreds of causes. Hosting events for fundraising is nothing new.

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JULY 13, 2012

The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. This proves especially handy to visitors to Washington DC trying to decide between events and exhibitions on the national mall and across the city. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

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