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

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 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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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. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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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

JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. Glad you like it.

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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 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

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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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

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

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

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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. It was her first time to attend such a large conference. Of course there are many important life values but these values are essential to philanthropy and transcend across different culture, race and faith.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. They have the gold standard in API and I think it will be a long time before anyone else gets to that level. You are totally right about Salesforce.

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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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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. Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. 4 Katrin 10.13.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

He thinks that time-based billing is bad. On one hand, he feels that consultants should base their fees on the value they bring to the consulting relationship, not the time spent. But some of his ideas are interesting, especially the notion of setting the fees on the value you bring, rather than the time you spend.

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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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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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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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I’m twenty-five years old, have a bachelor’s in Psychology, love music, gaming, and I spend way too much time on computers – with a particular talent for breaking them. I remember a time which pretty well sums up the whole nature of this beast. But in time, it could be. Oh yeah, I also use a wheelchair.

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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. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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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. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Web Huddle – The only other one I can find that at this time offers the possibility of sharing a Linux desktop. at 12:31 pm Online Courses » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.06.07 We chose Persony because it had one of the simplest interfaces and had a one-time fee. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Even if Allan’s vision does become reality some time in the future, why rush to present your figures now. Allan assumes two points here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Then spend some down time during the holidays migrating from the old computer to the new. Maybe in 2010 well both switch! Research the trick your IPOD music collection can live on different computers or at least be copied over. Hmm.this is going take a long time. I have 20 years of files on my hard drive - honestly.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast site , or through the iTunes Music Store. And in the course of that time she's gained enough skills to be able to do that, and that's what we're here for. What does this mean for her business? What is her niche?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. 3 Javier Barreira 02.21.08 Yes and yes?

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