Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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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 didn’t get so far into coding the markup, but I had decided that I’d follow MediaWiki’s syntax, since it was the most popular wiki software. 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

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Dividing Cells: in excel, you can select a column and say “split this in to many columns using the comma as a delimiter&# — I think it is under tools somewhere (I don’t have Excel so I don’t remember offhand.) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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