Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

&# O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Worth a read! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 16, 2007

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. We all don’t need to be on the bleeding edge to get stuff done. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. .&# tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. The first article, on Mac database options , just got published last week. One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Watch the demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. { They are worth a read. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? There are some great tips in this Wired article. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The current trend is away from the Apple iOS 2010 look with things like fancy drop shadows to the simpler Windows 8 'flat design' Flat design features contrasting colored simple icons to identify the sections of website. . Vandelay Design has a useful article: “ 10 Keys to Effective Non-Profit Organization Websites.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. Novell I think the article says pretty much everything that needs to be said about Novell, and SUSE Linux. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

These articles and products can help you build your website from the ground up as well as inspire enhancements or new features on an existing site. Connecting Up held webinars on two open-source content management systems: Introducing the Joomla CMS and Introducing the Drupal CMS. Website Building, Planning, and Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Jacky was only 8 years old in 2010, when he was separated from his mother after the 2010 earthquake and forced into child slavery. Named Timoun, the Haitian Creole word for child, our solution leverages current open source software solutions and is designed to operate in low tech or bandwidth settings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 at 6:27 am First off, glad you liked the article.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. Viewing the Author page one should be able to see Related Comments and Related Articles. There’s also that you can’t easily paginate multiple models in a single page. In fact that’s how the baked forms and scaffolding show this data. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Building open social networks – This is a great article on O’Reilly Radar about opening up the “social graph&# – it’s worth a look. Razoo – here’s another Change.org for you. There is a post forthcoming where I vent my social networking curmudgeonness.) My online identity score is 9/10.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This week, we decided to revisit an older article, Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Website. This is one of TechSoup's most popular articles (thanks in no small part to Google ), but some parts had gotten a little dated and it was well in need of an update. read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”. com/article/e-commerce-sales-retail-sales-ten-year-review/.

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