Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? That, of course, can spread virally. Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. The platform contains two parts, which I’ll talk about individually.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. Of course, it’s only a study of Convio’s clients – but it’s interesting nonetheless. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. And make it reasonably priced.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

. &# It’s written by this guy, Alan Weiss, who has written the “ Ultimate Consulting &# series, which seems to be focused primarily on making a lot of money in consulting. One of which is something I would love to talk with other consultants (and clients, too) about. He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another. I have found this invaluable as a way to move forward in my course of study.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Now, of course, as a techie, and someone with a home network, and multiple computers, and varied projects, there is always a list like this. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! There are several issues here, of course. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I’ve got several posts on tap about specific aspects of the conference, or specific products and such that I’d come across during my time at NTC last week, so stick around. There are, of course, some tweaks we can make to make sure that everyone really can gain value from NTC, and we can sustain the richness that it contains.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2011

Of course rapid adoption of the new Apple iPad and other e-readers are one of the big IT stories this year. Around the time of the show, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) released its CEA 2010 Sustainability Report. Alcorn is a longtime consultant in the e-cycling industry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. But I think time will tell. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I got involved in Linux a long time ago. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time. It leveled the playing field, so that an organization without many resources could do what at that time, required a lot of resources. So here goes. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

So there was the saga of migrating my data from Apple’s proprietary address book to Evolution (and of course, dealing with the beast that Evolution is.) And, to top it off, I had to make things more complicated last week, because I decided to get a Palm PDA again. found a great, really cheap E2 on Ebay.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner. Setup of all three has a one time fee. When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ? Click and Pledge, a company that does SaaS for nonprofits, released a new product, called “Trio&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I have owned about a dozen Macintosh computers (or clones) over the course of 20 years. There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. at 5:36 am I was reading though this post thinking about Evolution until, of course, you mentioned it. 2) KAddressBook. It’s just a bit more polished.

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JUNE 21, 2013

According to a 2010 Urban Institute study, nonprofit organizations (with records of income data) reported that nearly one-third of their revenue sources came from the government. If you answered no, sign up today for the NMI''s online course on Financial Management Principles. foundations, fundraising consultants, and many others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

In a sense, we are, of course quite biased. Perhaps it’s time to change the message, a bit. Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. Perhaps we don’t have to spend so much time on this issue anymore. Comments? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

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. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Human beings use metaphors all the time to understand the world, and to frame it. " Software uses metaphors all the time as well. When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. Metaphors are powerful in terms of the way we think about things.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually. But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. So it doesn’t happen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

. “Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization.&# In fact, if you are a nonprofit, you’ve spent time wading through that crap (and believe me, I’ve created my own healthy share of vendorspeak.) you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points. Here’s hoping that the next time around we get even more response! 3 Christopher Scott 12.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Both women, along with Lisa Sonora Beam and myself, are planning a 2010 creative women entrepreneur retreat together. This month I am taking her Right Brain Business Plan e-course so I can spend more time on the nitty gritty of expanding Big Vision Consulting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. And, of course, there are plenty of peripherals that don’t work with Macs.) And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. 2 ThomasT 06.24.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. We didn’t have much time to respond to the Pepsi Refresh challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. They each have their good points and bad, strengths and reasons I use them (I use furl, for instance, to save pages I think might go away, or become paid content after a short time being free.) It’s just so … painful.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Of course, I totally agree with you that more eyeballs on code leads to more vulnerabilities shown. At the same time you made, IMHO, a very critical mistake by teaching people something about security that just isn’t useful. If you can’t publish a responsible security evaluation, then don’t publish one. “itâ??s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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