Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. .) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For office productivity we use Google Apps. For file sharing we use Box.net. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Filed under ideas , video. Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty. Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For office productivity we use Google Apps. For file sharing we use Box.net. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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