Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time. I’m spending about 1/2 of my time being Coordinator of NOSI. And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with. It feels quite good, actually. I love this work.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization” (National Council of Nonprofits, 2017). The truth is, it takes human resources, or employee salaries, to run most programs and make an impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Not because I don’t want my blog to be better, it’s just that I don’t have the time right now. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. And, a secondary mission is to educate people about technology that I think is interesting and useful. One of them, I’ll do now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. One in five people there live at the poverty level.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The last time I coded in a CMS was when I was working on the (now dead) perl CMS I wrote many moons ago. I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Time will tell. { It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. . I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. More on that in a later post. { 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

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. I’d had bits and pieces of this in varied places, and in my head, but it was a good time to get it all down. This is also an ongoing process.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Google just released data that it received over 3,500 demands from law enforcement involving criminal investigations in the last six months of 2009. NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, concluded her April 2, 2010 blog post about cloud computing by saying, "We also have to ask if we're putting our clients and our missions at risk."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I think it will be a great time. I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

My suggestion: if you like gadgets, are addicted to being connected at all times, and you feel like you need reading glasses to read email or the web on the Blackberry screen, the iPhone might be a good bet, but I’d wait until software version 2.1 comes out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Traffic is flying at four plus times the speed, I can actually do remote shell sessions that aren’t painful. Unfortunately, it is the apparently increasingly dastardly Comcast, but it is so way much better than satellite by Hughesnet , that I can’t really find it in myself to complain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I’ve used more FTP clients in my time than I can even begin to remember, from command-line ftp, to WS-FTP, and lots and lots of others (I have this memory of a really old, clunky FTP client for Mac OS 7 or something that I was using a lot, when all filesharing was via FTP.) I use it all the time, and I really like it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I’ve got several posts on tap about specific aspects of the conference, or specific products and such that I’d come across during my time at NTC last week, so stick around. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Co-Founder & Executive Director. tsdigs digital storytelling'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.) That was one of the big reasons I had been looking for good web conferencing a while back (I’m still looking…) I’m starting my foray into this territory by giving a free course in the database management system, PostgreSQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

As a full-time user of both Firefox and Thunderbird, I’m really enjoying the benefits of these open platforms, and the immense creativity of people who create add-ons. And it’s all free! 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 5, 2008

They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. Plus I hope to be that expert, or close to it, when the time does come!) ;) 4 Beth Kanter 08.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

You don’t have to code to do what should be basic tasks using the tool (for instance, this eliminates a good time tracking program, which at some point I might blog about, but that you have to learn scheme[1] to get customized reports with any complexity. )

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

Last year at Cause Camp, I laughed when speaker and fellow nonprofiteer Rachel Muir called herself a “recovering nonprofit executive director.” So, I gave the nonprofit sector a shot and served as a nonprofit executive for two different organizations from 2009 to 2013. . I laughed because that describes me to a tee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I myself wrote a custom CMS a long time ago that would be considered crap now, so I don’t blame them for that, but the charges???) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { Two whole pageviews.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP. Explore common pitfalls and ask questions of our experts including: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Membership Director. Amy's dedication to educating and supporting nonprofit and community organizations in using technology to make lasting change brought her to NTEN as the Membership Director.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

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? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) for writing one-page fact sheets. Marketing Deviant has an interesting post about having a color dress code for your business. at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07

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