Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?)

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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. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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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.) Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Open standards are now becoming de-riguer for application developers, and even proprietary vendors are adopting longstanding ideas and methods from free and open source software. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. I think the next 4-8 years are going to prove Yochai Benkler right. {

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