Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Special musical performances by some interesting guests (under discussion). Giveaways, call-ins, co-host duties from Aronado and more. Its aim is to raise a minimum of $144,000 for 12 charities over the course of 2009, with a new charity being supported every month. Special event by the Looking Glass girls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. A large chunk (the majority?) But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? Linux on the desktop has come quite far, in just a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

October 27, 2006 Next week, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is hosted here! And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice. Check this out [link] Leave a Comment Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants coming here! I have a sort of good excuse.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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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. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). But I guess it might be useful for some. 3 Jill 01.31.08 at 7:41 pm A couple of interesting things about Yugma. I’ve used that alot. Give it a try.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I set up a mysql database in my standard generic virtual hosting setup, copied the downloaded and unzipped Joomla folder into my webspace by FTP, and fired up my browser. I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy. Um, sorta.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I’m betting that in 2009, many folks will move from shared hosting to VPS servers. Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. I love discovering new music, seeing what people I know are listening to, and learning more about what I listen to over time. SaaS Tools. I love last.fm.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface. Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point. If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The best way to accomplish those tasks depends primarily on your CRM, although if you are using a proprietary CMS, a hosted CMS service, or an older CMS, you might run into trouble with integration. What are the specific tasks and data types you want to move between the CRM and the CMS? 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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MAY 13, 2011

In 2009, The Academy Award winning film The Cove used the activism platform to create one of the most successful causes , bringing together over 1 million people to end the dolphin slaughter in Japan. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

I particularly liked her January 25, 2009 interview with Leigh Standley , creator of Curly Girl Design (maybe that's because I am a curly girl myself!). Listen/subscribe on iTunes If you want to find podcasts to keep you company, search on the iTunes Music Store, or on one of BlogTalkRadio's Top 5 Podcast Directories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

Join us for live music, drinks, nptech application demos and plenty of free swag! I'm blogging this for two reasons - so I have it in one place and so if you want to meet you'll know where to find me. If you are attending SXSW, please seek me out and we can try to meet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

You can “withhold&# web site stats but Compete, Alexa, GetClicky and a host of other sites will not let you do so. If you don’t see the analogy to blogging or any adoption of social media, then you’re blind. This leaves you with a choice, either you embrace the openness of web site statistics or stick your head in the sand.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It was June of 2009. Michael Jackson had just died, and I was at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where they hastily erected an exhibit of the jacket and glove he wore in the Thriller video. It's always nerve-wracking when you host an event with an unconventional format.

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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. So we signed up with Pathable and started in April building out the site with them which is at [link] (it is hosted on their site- that’s just a redirect URL).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It’s a very straightforward integration.

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