Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. The definition of Inbound Marketing is marketing focused on getting found by customers. You can read a more detailed definition here. x (Total Retweets).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It’s definitely worth a read. Seth Gottlieb (a fellow Western Mass person) has a great post on his blog about how to go about looking at the communities around open source projects. 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

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. 1] Bango Annual Mobile Usage Study, Feb 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. But the real story is much more complicated. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share). By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Welcome your new Penguin overlords ;-) 2 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. But, it isn’t as if I intend to be a pauper and live in a box or something. I intend to make a good living on open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways. Angela Francis, Senior Associate at Nonprofit Finance Fund , can be reached at angela.francis@nffusa.org and on Twitter @NFF_West.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. A campaign (in my definition) is anything that mobilizes action.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. In 2007, Rik authored a report on "Best Practices for Nonprofits in Second Life," still one of the definitive resources for public sector organizations working in virtual worlds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. Do I like it better than Drupal? I’m not yet sure. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I could see being paid some base for doing the work and then a bonus or something on top of that for achieving specific outcomes. I actually have a book around here somewhere that describes how to negotiate this kind of process. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

But now there's also Fundraising staff learning to raise money via mobile phones and Communications staff figuring out best practices for using Twitter to engage supporters. Please take just a few minutes -- definitely under 10, likely under 7 -- to tell us about: How NTEN's current programs and services are meeting your professional needs .

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

But did you know she topped the list of most charitable Celebs in 2010 , as ranked by Do Something , by how much energy celebrities devote to cause? With an audience of over ten million Twitter followers – more than any other twitting being on Earth (and two million more than our President) Lady Gaga can evangelize to a massive crowd.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Definitely. Source Coding : If you’re not doing it now, set up source coding for the links posted in your interactions on FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06 As you well know, one of the things that has been one of the most important to me is the availability of good software for nonprofits that’s built for them in mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I think it’s certainly a possible choice, especially if you’ve got a philosophical approach that’s resonant with Debian (a lot of activist technology organizations use Debian) and have (or can find) the expertise needed. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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NTEN

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. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. In 2007, Rik authored a report on "Best Practices for Nonprofits in Second Life," still one of the definitive resources for public sector organizations working in virtual worlds.

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NTEN

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. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. However, the ASU Lodestar Center study has its definite strengths as well — which lends credence to the argument that the true estimate lies somewhere squarely between the two estimates.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. Thats not definitive, but this is another one I suspect wont be too worried about the revocation. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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