Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

. * Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. Wordpress now uses dashes instead of underscores, so that’s something you don’t have to worry about. That’s all. You don’t have to worry about using mod_rewrite at all. Getting the varied blogrolls and badges, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right? Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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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. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads. One big one was my address book.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Plugged it in, and it just worked.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . Going forward, it will be more important to connect your user’s social addresses with this information, too. During his 4.5

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Some of the benefits of cloud computing are obvious - many of the programs noted above are free (that's good), version upgrades are instantaneous and don't require you to contact an IT department and you can access your files from any computer. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. Have you mitigated your privacy risks? Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com).

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

2009 is the year of transparency. This is a smart move for GuideStar since the IRS is about to make 990 forms public as a searchable database (instead of the flat, unsearchable files that are currently available). A seal will be offered to nonprofits that voluntarily commit to being open and transparent.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. For file sharing we use Box.net. On October 24, 2009, 350.org Web tools: we use ActionKit which is the online organizing toolkit used by MoveOn.org and built by the same development team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. The approaches are similar and different to each other. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. They have estimated that the SIGACTS describes 15,000 civilian deaths previously undocumented by IBC (BBC’s report is here ).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs. Comments, files, and links can be shared. Increasingly communication is moving beyond corporate email, in-office meetings, and official documentation.

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APRIL 24, 2021

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