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. Be Helpful. 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. Be Helpful. 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. copied over.

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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. Be Helpful. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J.

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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. Be Helpful. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right?

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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. Be Helpful. 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.

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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. Be Helpful. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Plugged it in, and it just worked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. Be Helpful. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Be Helpful. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Be Helpful. He then talks about something that I find really interesting, and hadn’t fully understood until I read it: why the radio spectrum was regulated in the first place, and why now, regulation is basically moot.

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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. . If funding doesn’t help incentivize this change, our sector will remain in a slow dance toward synchronization. .

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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 took off after the earthquake in Haiti. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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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 took off after the earthquake in Haiti. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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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. Assess the risk of non-compliance; determine the impact of non-compliance and likelihood of risk occurrence--use this to help prioritize your compliance efforts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. Helping the women receiving the funds. It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Here at ReadyTalk, I am the Account Manager who works with our Nonprofit Customers helping them save money increase their efficiency through using our audio and web conferencing services. I hope that information helps you in your analysis. This will help us make Dimdim better. 6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. Don’t forget your Constituent Database. design: is it clean?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members names design: is it clean? Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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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. Be Helpful. The approaches are similar and different to each other. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation.

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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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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

In addition to the ways the Salesforce platform is helping organizations integrate with social data, I pointed to a few other tools that are available for anyone to use. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. There will be some much more detailed information that will help make it easier to figure out if it is right for you. { Be Helpful.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use. If you think proprietary software has better support think of those people who had databases written in Fox Pro, a product that was bought by Microsoft with the prime purpose of removing it as a market competitor. Be Helpful. Oh god yes.

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APRIL 24, 2021

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