Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! How bleeding edge do we need to be? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Karel Lukas 08.24.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. CiviCRM has a great forum for community.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments. What is Jumo?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. It also feels amazing to see some of my theories validated in this way--that giving people the opportunity to actively participate does really transform the way they see the institution and themselves. It feels pretty amazing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. From my perspective, the key is openness. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) The next step was to get online.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 at 7:07 pm Take your sunscreen.

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 10.22.07 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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AUGUST 12, 2007

This community is one of Ubuntu’s great strengths, in terms of the ability to find helpful and sometimes instant support (via an incredibly active set of IRC channels.) 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07 And, Canonical also provides professional support.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

Sometimes, this has led to an unreasonable amount of stress for an entirely extra-curricular activity. At the same time, I''m aware that only a tiny percentage of readers have actively pursued relationships with me and other Museum 2.0 folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. The first question in the September volunteer supplement asks “Since September 1st of last year, have you done any volunteer activity through or for an organization?&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. I have a BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design , but I don't think I'm a very good designer. That said, our home currently has 5 Macs in active use and 2 iPhones. .

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APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. I have a BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design , but I don't think I'm a very good designer. That said, our home currently has 5 Macs in active use and 2 iPhones.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09 at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. { 2 admin 09.18.07

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. The active ones have their act together and filed their required forms long ago. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. Please leave a comment or use the #4change hashtag to tweet your post if you do write something of your own! There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. zerostrategist : Google / China comes to mind!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year. Earlier in the year we had an exhibit featuring work by contemporary hooked rug artisans alongside Pennsylvania German folk art from our collection.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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JULY 17, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. After a long day running around a science center, I would show up at the Worcester Art Museum in the evening and make $20 just to stand around and listen to a painting instructor talk about art. I used to say that the Museum 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. Yes, I am biased towards cake) :) 8 Kevin 02.19.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. We will fill the void.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. renewed contracts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. It’s an active conversation I have individually and corporately with my board. We’re going to try to leave some time at the end for Q&A. So don’t be shy. Don’t dismiss it.

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