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Because artificial intelligence is so powerful, and we know that it will outstrip the most intelligent human’s capacity to process information, we would be foolhardy not to try to understand the topics that affect us. The answer is a lot, including bots and tech, that stole personal information and led misinformation campaigns.

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Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&#

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That was one of the big reasons I had been looking for good web conferencing a while back (I’m still looking…) I’m starting my foray into this territory by giving a free course in the database management system, PostgreSQL. The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.)

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MAY 29, 2008

Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It’s being billed as the “easiest database&# and I pretty much have to agree. Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. Have a look at the demo. Watch the demo.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Plus: we also offer numerous free learning resources to help you better manage your staff, volunteers, and business consultants. Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data. Build and Manage Databases.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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JUNE 10, 2008

It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) How do we know? How can we assure privacy?

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. As Jack said, it is helpful and important for someone to be informed, but we don’t have a real need for an expert (yet). We’re just not there yet.

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JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks.

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MARCH 13, 2007

We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. And then there is data. I love my friends and colleagues.

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APRIL 28, 2010

"Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Would they still be willing to provide their credit card or personal information to you? Would they still be willing to provide their credit card or personal information to you? Have you taken the steps necessary to protect your organization?

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information. we do take feedback seriously and try to add any other information possible to make it clear to people that an email will be generated to the user you are requesting trust from.

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APRIL 3, 2009

As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. Does it contribute the information that fewer people are looking for security vulnerabilities? Does it contribute the information that the the project does not report their security vulnerabilities?

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JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). Joomla is growing fast.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Thanks for any information you can provide. I forgot to check the date! Can you tell me then, since you’re using Google, how you can arrange the settings to ignore your own visits to your blog? 4 admin 08.05.09 at 9:33 am I’ve never tried it, but here’s the answer: [link] 5 Dru 08.05.09 at 9:46 am Thank you so much!

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APRIL 10, 2008

2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 And I feel like we don’t spend enough time thinking about whether or not it is appropriate – whether it makes sense, whether it really is going to benefit the mission of the organizations we work with. {

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JANUARY 19, 2007

at 6:11 am Interesting idea here – informing technology with spirituality. I think that until politics and business generally are more informed in this area, we’re pretty much in danger of becoming an extinct species in much shorter order than the dinosaurs did! You can see it at [link] Thanks for writing!

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MARCH 3, 2016

He founded the company in 2010 to transform the way business intelligence is performed so organizations of any size can quickly and easily deploy powerful analytics. It’s common to have data stored in different places and in different formats—on the web, in a spreadsheet, in a donor database, etc. So where do you start?

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) 12 David Geilhufe 01.27.09

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MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Bicknell Information Group in booth 75.

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MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Bicknell Information Group in booth 75.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I wrote a blogging module into my web database project, Xina, more than 4 years ago. 3) keep stakeholders informed? So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now. Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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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

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? The interest card was a second way for CC to collect information about party guests.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. Thus, you can use Palbee for small group video meetings but also, you can use it for presentation, teaching, or any other information delivery. One last thing. You can share the recorded webinars as you do with YouTube. Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. Causes uses information created within their program and data from Guidestar. Well you’ve reached the right place.

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All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

There will be some much more detailed information that will help make it easier to figure out if it is right for you. { Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. I’ll be announcing it, for sure.

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