Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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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.) Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

And what would you describe as the social definition of Social Actions API – the purpose? In Spring 2009, we were approached by a group that was building an advanced video + action platform and that wanted to draw on the Social Actions API. I left that session knowing exactly the direction I wanted to take Social Actions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. In general, installation and configuration of software has become much easier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. It’s definitive, with a powerful economy of words. More than 4,800 nonprofit professionals cast votes in the final selection round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. Here are the definitions: Connectivity Network: This type of network links people to allow them to exchange experience and information as a result of that exchange learn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Life would definitely be easier if there was one piece of software that could do everything we needed it to, from donor management to email blasts. In 2008, NTEN began asking the community to tell us what they thought of the tools they use. In summer 2009, we went looking for a better way. Of course, life is rarely that simple.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social media is a great tool for increasing supporter engagement; a majority of nonprofits have realized this. And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011. Did you know that mobile web use increased by 230% between 2008 and 2009? [1] It says that 22.7% is through mobile devices!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. Do I like it better than Drupal? I’m not yet sure. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. For me this is about good tools for people trying their damn hardest to make, each in their own way, make the world better. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. And precisely (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I could see being paid some base for doing the work and then a bonus or something on top of that for achieving specific outcomes. I actually have a book around here somewhere that describes how to negotiate this kind of process. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I think it’s certainly a possible choice, especially if you’ve got a philosophical approach that’s resonant with Debian (a lot of activist technology organizations use Debian) and have (or can find) the expertise needed. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07

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JANUARY 13, 2022

There are a few best practices to think through when it comes to general do’s and don’ts of volunteer management , and onboarding is definitely on that list. Get creative with free tools that can help enable communication between you and between the volunteer committee. Consider using tools such as Google Jamboard and more!

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Care2

JUNE 13, 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!" Interestingly we are definitely seeing real participation from 40+ year olds on Facebook with our clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

As of March 23, 2009, I started my 9-month journey as the Visiting Scholar in Residence at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It has three definitions: 1: a person who attends a school or studies under a teacher : pupil 2: person who has done advanced study in a special field b: a learned person 3: a holder of a scholarship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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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. There is one additional point I want to make: On some topics that may not have wide resonance yet, there is, by definition little traffic. 10 Cindy Leonard 09.26.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. However, most of the donors were definitely social media contacts with whom I have had more in-depth conversations. Definitely.

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Care2

MAY 8, 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!" Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree. Thats wrong. Thanks for this post. All rights reserved.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. As for that other definition of subscription learning, spaced learning, we are, again, all for it. Slope of Enlightenment.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 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 11, 2009 | Tara Great list of tips! June 12, 2009 | Sally Great post. com , Inc.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

was definitely the star of the show, it is actually one of several types of smartglasses under development now. I don’t think I’ve really gotten over seeing the 2009 documentary film, Transcendent Man , about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, author of the book The Singularity is Near. Google Glass Explained.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2009

That's also important for the nonprofit sector to do as we begin 2009. In 2009, we're going to need every second of every day to do our work. That's definitely smarter. In 2009, we're going to be called upon to do more than we ever have before as a sector. Here are the resolutions I have for NTEN: 1.

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