Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). How does this all get paid for? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

The clients should not have expected to get slick 2009 functionality for a mid 5-figure budget. Tags: Consulting Database technology Development Nonprofit Tech Technology Zen opensource user experience. The more easy a user interface is to use, the more money and time it took to create. It’s that simple.

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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 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

But there are successful counter examples. . “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 So we’ll see what happens. 3 Matthew Edmondson 07.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. BTW, do you know of or have an example from your clients where they have thoughtfully considered a facebook strategy or using these tools and it really wasn’t the right fit?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS. 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 6 Brian 03.01.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. There is, luckily, a handy-dandy tool that will do it for you. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. Yeah, talk about lock-in!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. He’s right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools. And there are also some organizations for whom this makes sense, and who have the resources, and are ready to take good advantage of all of these tools, including twitter. And there are, for sure, some interesting case studies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is also free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Most of the tools that are used to do this integration are CMS modules or add-ons. All-in-one. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. This data does confirm many thing we already knew: that most young people are using social networking platforms of one kind or another, that females are more likely to use networking tools than males, etc. What lessons or examples do you want to share? The Research.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 7:28 pm I’m a rather modest user of Excel or OpenOffice.org’s Calc. 2 phil jones 04.19.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Even though it is true that anyone can join either network, the data in them is limited only to those who join, and join networks and have friends. Wired says : Therein lies the rub.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.) Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.  Frank is a Consulting Manager at Blackbaud Internet Solutions.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. For example, if donors mistype the keyword, the donation will not go through. For example, Mobile Commons, has the mConnect application which can be used by nonprofits for advocacy campaigns to contact legislators via mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I always enjoy the opportunity to present on social fundraising because while the tools come and go, the principles for success don’t change. I illustrated each principle with examples of nonprofit social fundraising campaigns that highlight a particular practice. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. If they want to brag about an accomplishment (a certain number of page views or visitors to a particular campaign page, for example), that’s fine. 9 admin 09.22.07

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. In 2009, Red House 2009 generated $23,000 in donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

But there are many, many organizations in the middle of these extreme examples. The time and energy that it devotes to their blog(s) (yeah, they should probably have more than one) would likely pay off in the short, and long run. Blogging takes time, focus, and energy from someone or someones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. For example: broadcom chipsets. My theory is that where Linux is going really work is in dedicated devices built from the ground up to run Linux, and used for relatively limited purposes. This is where Linux will shine.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It’s a great example of approaching an aspect of government work – finding solutions to problems facing the country and government – not just a little faster or a little more efficiently, but with a completely different approach. Some early examples of online competitions include those lead by Ashoka, Innocentive, and EPA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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JUNE 16, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" June 16, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, are there any specific examples of a "Twitter success" that you can share?

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