Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve."

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of August 11th).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But I help them plan their technology initiatives (a new database, a new website, etc.,) I’ll be the project manager on their big new client database project, and help them think about how far to dip their toes into Web 2.0. help them find the vendors that will do the work by helping them craft good RFPs. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08 ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Read below for great do-it-yourself resources, tips, and training materials so you can do more with what you've got and grow your organization's capacity each and every day. Be sure to share your DIY tech tips in the comments! DIY Software Learning Resources. Share them in the comments below. DIY Online Events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 Excellent resource. at 11:01 am Congratulations! You deserve to be proud of this work! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I think one of the biggest mistakes that an organization can make with its website is to promise more than it can deliver – make sure that the resources to create that blog, or podcast, or photo gallery, or whatever bells and whistles that you promise on your website, are there when the website goes live. Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

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, I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08 Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. at 10:33 am You say that we live in a quite capitalist world, as if it is a bad thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. at 10:25 am Congrats!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

The first article, on Mac database options , just got published last week. It’s enjoyable writing them, and also writing them for a non-US audience (although I’m sure plenty of US folks take advantage of their amazing resource.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. at 7:35 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine. I believe eTapestry runs on a database package called Versant. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

And, as Dustin pointed out in the comments to my venting post earlier, a lot of this is not the fault of open source desktop software developers. And, of course, there has been a lot of resources and money poured into server software for Linux, but not as much for tools for the desktop. This is my dilemma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas). But, for the most part, I really don’t want to know what they are doing right now. I need less, and better data, not more. And there is more: it might keep me at my computer longer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs. Someone (I think it was Nick or Peter) said that nonprofits can do more than vendors think they can – so providing the resources is important. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I like the wide variety of resources he brings to bear – he’s introduced me to a lot of great writers and thinkers in varied areas. My tip: Allow non-registered users to comment – I imagine you’d get more comments that way. I like the design of Ed’s blog as well. Ed 3 Easton Ellsworth 03.05.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense. But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. As much as Facebook declined to comment, in March of 2018, a whistleblower who worked at Cambridge Analytica by the name of Christopher Wylie came forward publicly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . Nonprofits are resourceful, great at finding solutions given the available tools. During his 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Its focus is on servers, and Fedora , it’s “community version&# does certainly benefit from Red Hat’s development expertise and resources, but it doesn’t have as vibrant a community as Ubuntu, for instance. It was the first Linux distribution to make it big in the business world.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Wanted: Defense Against Online Bank Fraud" (February 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal). Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just because organization 1 gets 45,000 unique visits per month, and organization 2 gets 3,000 means nothing in relationship to the impact that organization has in the world, or in relationship to how it uses its resources. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. Wish I were!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. And then something exciting happened. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

I have been impressed with how many tools and resources are out there to assist the many nonprofits who want to improve their information technology portfolio. Many of the best nonprofit technology resources are provided by other nonprofit organizations with the express mission of bringing the nonprofit sector out of technological obscurity.

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See3

MAY 12, 2007

And one of these Michael Hoffman’s is a director — so he is in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and that helps his Google rankings. Share and Enjoy: 9 Comments comment University Update This is Michael Hoffman… … 13 May 2007 See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » I am still Michael Hoffman. [.]

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