Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I’ve had a fair bit of experience with Drupal – nosi.net is run on Drupal, and I’d done a Drupal install once, and helped with some now and again. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

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Michael Hoffman is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a longtime consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising, advocacy, and community engagement strategies. Hoffman founded See3 to bring together his belief in the power of the web and his passion and experience with nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, and education.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. More configuration, more options, but still not good. 3) Evolution. It would mean switching my email. It might be worth it. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I co-administered that box for a few years. Eventually, they got a T1, and moved the server in-house. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

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She has over 15 years of experience as a community organizer and community builder in the United States and South Asia. She is the former managing director of DonorTrends and was a senior fundraising consultant at HJC New Media. She specializes in the areas of community engagement, deliberation and empowerment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It is a huge community, so it is hard to get to know users, since there are so many, but it’s not commercialized, from my experience. But at least the first technical hurdle to jump over is a small one. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. Her posts are thoughtful and accessible for non-techies. I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! I appreciate your patience as I know my ignorance was showing. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. I had to go command line in order to get online. So I had to dig out of my memory (and do some online looking) about iwconfig.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06 7 Todd Sieling 09.28.06 Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

can transform the teaching and learning experience. So, even if you have a Linux workstation, you get the same superior user experience every time. Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate Live! In other words, Elluminate Live!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of it is being prompted by my own technology support experiences with my satellite “broadband&# provider (which have been largely frustrating). Really a lot. 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

AUGUST 6, 2007

Instead, they will have to rely on consultants, or unfortunately volunteers. Perhaps one day we’ll get there, but in my 15+ year experience, the level of tech resources in non-profits have stayed the same, and I don’t think it’s likely to change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

We experimented with it briefly two years ago when we first decided to publish a journal, but we couldn’t make it happen. So I have a bit of experience in both business and with intellectual property, all of which brings me to this question: Do NPO people value what they get for free? Others aren’t at all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Basically, the cool thing is that you can choose which school projects to fund – so if I’d like kids to have more hands-on science experiences, I can fund projects to buy things like microscopes … wait, what?? DonorChoose – I am both fascinated and horrified by this site. Microscopes?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

As long as you don’t use the same key to activate multiple Windows copies in a single short period of time (read: post the key on Usenet), my experience is that activation has been pretty nonintrusive. I have used the same CD key to reinstall a single copy of XP multiple times through 3 successive complete machine replacements.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I’ve also noticed how most people in the nptech world who experiment with this stuff have moved over to Facebook. I don’t intend, for instance, to start putting my calendar on Facebook, but it’s interesting to see how much is happening, and how fast.

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How many of us had the experience at some point during the pandemonium, as my daughter says, that folks were like, “Oh, I’m just home resting. Who gets to be involved in consultation? There wasn’t anybody on my staff that had more than five years’ experience doing any one of those particular verticals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) We’ll be experimenting with some improvements to this in 2.2.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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JUNE 25, 2008

I agree regarding music. Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Permalink Steve Bridger wrote: Happy New Year to you, too Louise! Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink Stuart G Hall wrote: Like the 5 a day meme, thanks. Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:04 am | Permalink iHanna wrote: Very inspiring list! Lucky chap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Younger adopterss, with little or no allegiance to the old pattens and tools of tv-media-based traditional planning, are out there running wild, trying anything they can get their hands on, and moving fast enough that failures disappear quickly into the past, overwhelmed by the successes of experiments that worked.

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