Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. This is, of course, great news. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08 Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It blocks banner ads, Google adsense ads, stupid dancing aliens for mortgages, etc. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. This is the best thing since sliced bread. I love it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. He’s right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 David Ascher 01.03.08 at 8:39 pm Wow, Thunderbird gets the #1 post!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. Update: Nick Carr thinks the fair use study is “a crock.&#

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

They have increasing competition from OpenOffice.org, Google Apps, and, on the Mac, iWork. A lot of governments are demanding that document formats be open standards, so it is important for MS to be able to get OOXML through ISO. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07 And, if Facebook offered in-kind donations of ads – similar to Google, I’m sure that nonprofits would flock to it. { 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop. So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 Brian 11.23.07 at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Karel Lukas 08.24.07 That makes me happy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. Google is a little vague about the fact that when you invite someone to a spreadsheet they’ll need a Google Account. 2 phil jones 04.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 Choosing Apple will always be like choosing ask.com over google because ask.com has a ‘prettier’ interface. So what am I going to replace my current phone with? I don’t know yet, but whatever it is, it will be unlocked. { 2 DeathMonkey 10.10.07

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JULY 9, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. Yeah, talk about lock-in! There is, luckily, a handy-dandy tool that will do it for you. at 9:36 pm Indeed!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

land are either using iCal, or integrating with Google Calendar (my present calendaring software). I can’t change a basecamp milestone in Google Cal, I have to go back to that particular basecamp account to change it. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments. So that’s good. But the integration there even can be clunky.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { 3 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/22 « i On Nonprofits 09.25.08 at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07 They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment ‹ Today something good happened Don José › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Filed under ideas , video. Bookmark the permalink.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For office productivity we use Google Apps. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For office productivity we use Google Apps. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This isn’t the case for a couple of reasons: 1) The more popular these CMS get, the more people need migration help, and the more resources are available for them (just google “ joomla drupal migration “ ) 2) More people than just the person who set the CMS up can help do the migration. 4 Javier Barreira 02.21.08

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