Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. In fact, that is far from the case.) Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. All really great stuff. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?)

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APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. This means that it is easier to back up and migrate, but doesn’t scale well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Hosted applications and platforms also require equitable access pathways, so while low cost hardware are available, it is broadband and mobile divides that are important. on our own servers or desktops.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 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

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 at 2:42 am Hmmm, I am not sure that open source opensocial applicaions would matter so much.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Hosted applications and platforms also require equitable access pathways, so while low cost hardware are available, it is broadband and mobile divides that are important. on our own servers or desktops.

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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. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. How busy is it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

If pretty much all I did was documents, email and the web, like many people, I wouldn’t be having these issues. I do demand a lot of my system. I’ve got tons of peripherals, I’m constantly changing and modifying things – I’m a power user.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). Sometimes ‘open source’ is the most important kind of openness.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Google just released data that it received over 3,500 demands from law enforcement involving criminal investigations in the last six months of 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2] 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

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

We like what the delicious mirror API (named Mirrord) can do in porting existing applications, which is happening and documented on our blog. Finally, speaking of the API, we also have our regular one which is fairly robust and a great way to take advantage of the more unique aspects that we have going. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The image above is an example from the Sumatra earthquake response of 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

If you mean mobile phone by "remote system" - there are different apps that let you do that. Have they documented good nonprofit success stories? I am not sure what a burn rate is - if you can define, I'd be happy to see if I can share the information. When can I create a FB event from a remote system? James Young). Ted Hart).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. For organizations that stick to a more traditional managerial and communications structure between now and then, however, raising money is going to be tougher in 2012 than in the darkest days of 2009. So how should your organization prepare for the changes that are afoot?

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The image above is an example from the Sumatra earthquake response of 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

as a conference moderator, i would prepare a short document to send first-time users that guides them through some important steps (e.g. The other potential problem for some users is that the free version limits the number of web-conference participants to 3. it’s easy to set up. you then email the other conference attendees a weblink.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Folks might also want to visit [link] Thanks!

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MAY 11, 2011

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. The UnRoad Trip - In summer 2009, Boaz Frankel undertook trip around the United States in 100 non-automobile forms of transportation and The UnRoad Trip was born. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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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. We tried to ask people with mobiles to use their 3G connection, but that mostly confused a lot of them. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. I set up a drop.io

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JULY 23, 2009

Although nonprofits in the United States have been slower to embrace mobile phones for health purposes than the rest of the world, mobiles are catching on as a way to reach diverse populations across the U.S. Mobile Monitoring. Corinne Ramey, MobileActive.org.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Not until they improve their existing online giving options and optimize their website for mobile devices. Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? Probably not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CRM & CMS Integration: Plone and Salesforce.com March 16, 2009 Today, I was reading up on what the Plone community has done with integrating their CMS with Salesforce.com. Look for that shortly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

They both have good documentation and active communities. I can imagine, though, that the Symfony approach can be powerful. Looking at Ohloh , Cake is more popular than Symfony (on Ohloh, who knows about in general), but Symfony has a lot more developers (81 vs 17).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The 224-page book, at a nice price of $14.99 (now for about $10 on Amazon), provides lots of tips and examples, and even includes the actual appraisal forms used by 10 organizations and associations that are both interesting to review and handy to use as "best practice" documents. Thats what inspired her to write this book.

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