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MARCH 17, 2010

At the Arc of the US Convention in Albuquerque in 2009 you could count them on one hand. Our internet connection went down on Monday, March 8. The next day, I tweeted from my phone on my personal account during lunch that our internet went down and hadn’t come back on yet. We were now on Day 3 of no internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

There are now over 143 million blogs on the Internet and when I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. Many nonprofits don’t consider blogging either because they think they need to blog everyday and that it would be too time consuming, or they have no idea what to blog about.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 2 Brian 11.23.07

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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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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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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

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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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. Outdated electronic privacy law impacts everyone who uses e-mail, mobile phones, or the Internet. It's time to update electronic privacy protections to match our modern world.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important. at 11:25 am I totally, completely agree – as I’ve said lots of times. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. 2 admin 11.22.07

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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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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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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

MARCH 5, 2007

As someone I talked with today said, “with dial up, the internet feels broken.&# I spent lots of time reading the reviews (many of which were BAD), but we decided to plunk down the dough (lots of it) and go for it. It bounced back up a couple of times. Anyway, it just got to be too much. But it didn’t stay good.

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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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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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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

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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I got involved in Linux a long time ago. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time. It leveled the playing field, so that an organization without many resources could do what at that time, required a lot of resources. So here goes. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another. 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 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Luckily, most web project have online demos, which will give you a feeling for the software without having to spend too much time configuring a server or webhost to use the software. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered?

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