Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Open source projects do get better. 3) Evolution.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Social media is one of the most tangible examples of the real time web. . Another great example is Epic Change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. And so the feedback cycle keeps going.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). How does this all get paid for? Check out the wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. . at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software. But there are successful counter examples.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. That’s a good thing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. The Social Actions API now uses a tool called Zemanta to apply these processes when searching the actions contained in the dataset.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS. So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets. Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

The clients should not have expected to get slick 2009 functionality for a mid 5-figure budget. The more easy a user interface is to use, the more money and time it took to create. It’s that simple. 2) If you have a budget of less than $100,000, go back, and stay , at step 1.

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As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. In doing that, we had to decide on some of the donor tools we had built in our old platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. Open it up, let anyone bang on test data to try things out, and you never know what might happen. The drive toward open everything is pretty inexorable, and the pressure is only going to get greater. { He’s right.

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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 know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) All-in-one.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. 2 phil jones 04.19.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

.&# I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# It’s an interesting book, with a basic premise.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is also free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. For example: broadcom chipsets. This is where Linux will shine.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Even though it is true that anyone can join either network, the data in them is limited only to those who join, and join networks and have friends. Wired says : Therein lies the rub.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. The social media strategy game is focused on how social media tools can be used for external communications.

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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. And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think.

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MAY 15, 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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

But there are many, many organizations in the middle of these extreme examples. And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. Blogging takes time, focus, and energy from someone or someones. Good analysis.

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MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often. take for granted even in our home markets, and how it must be made.

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Web tools: we use ActionKit which is the online organizing toolkit used by MoveOn.org and built by the same development team. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico. It’s our main day-to-day and moment-to-moment communications tool. On October 24, 2009, 350.org

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