2010 Articulate Problem Time 
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 30, 2007
Not because I don’t want my blog to be better, it’s just that I don’t have the time right now. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 25, 2016
A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise. To articulate this, Ganz developed a storytelling model based on challenge, choice, and outcome. Other times, the outcome of a choice is that they decided to be a fundraiser for the campaign.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 18, 2007
I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 29, 2007
An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 24, 2007
As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. Where is this client, now ? What is going on for them?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 14, 2008
I seem to spend inordinate amounts of time responding to people (proprietary software vendors, to be specific) harping on the idea that “open source software is free&# is a myth , and blathering on about how it’s not really free, because you have to hire a geek to install it, and maintain it, and blah blah blah. Problem solved.
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