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? Right, right, right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. I have other kinds of projects as well – those that use my talents somewhat differently.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. I’d recommend it to anyone. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Michael Stein talks about three different kinds of mistakes that one can make in technology consulting, including some errors of process, and the “Hot Dog&# syndrome. A great read for anyone who does development for clients. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

I think the time has come to think differently. No matter the seeming outcome, know that you have made a difference in the life of at least one person. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Maribeth 07.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

And if you’ve been used to the Photoshop workflow, it will take a lot to get used to the very different GIMP workflow. If you’re a geek, you are used to getting to know new UIs, and putting up controls that are difficult to understand or get used to. But if you’re not a geek, GIMPs UI is a major hurdle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. I couldn’t figure out whether the project was dead or not. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 at 3:45 am I don’t like the way Basecamp is set up. Check it out [link]. It’s commercial, but it’s just $5 per month, so I don’t regret the money I send. 3 Dustin J.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Anyway, they were looking for a different article – one that was more about the advantages of FOSS, not about the broad category of free (as in beer) and low cost software, which includes FOSS, proprietary, and SaaS. at 4:01 pm I think there’s also some difficulty with different parts of the audience being at different places.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference! Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

So in comes IPv6, a different kind of addressing protocol. It allowed for 4,294,967,296 addresses. Which, on one hand, seems like a lot, but it’s not, when every cell phone, PC, router, cable set top box and toaster has one. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. They are worth a read. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons. (In other words, no I don’t exactly know what I am doing next, yet.) And, I think I did that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Or does it mean something completely different like suggesting that people use more than just the nptech tag and to include a one-sentence description? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories? Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. Lots of open source companies (RedHat, MySQL AB, Novell, Alfresco, SugarCRM, Canonical) are doing similar things.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I make sure that music on Pandora is on the agenda for at least half the day. I know this seems completely contradictory to current communication trends, but that’s exactly the time you want to do something different to get noticed. However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

You may not see a significant difference in the features you’ll use when comparing free and paid options. You may not want to change how you currently manage donors, which means you’d like to invest as little as possible in a different solution or approach to donor management. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit , published by Wiley in 2010, and her blog is one of the longest running nonprofit and social media blogs. Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference. That was before the kid and the dog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

The middle way isn’t splitting the difference. I’m not sure I quite understand the fear, but it’s something to pay attention to. The other side of the coin is the presumption that all of the production of the social sphere will be benign. Still thinking about a middle way suggests where not always faced with binary choices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It’s the same, really, with Drupal, only different. If you are a programmer who likes to complain about how PHP isn’t really object oriented, you might be in a different place than I am, but I found that I couldn’t seem to get my head around an entirely new webserver framework. So I like Joomla. 4 Amanda Bee 05.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. That bothered me a bit – they are totally different issues. But I’m going to highlight what interested me most, and talk a little bit about the zen of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The Wisdom 2.0 I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. . :) Kinda fun though. 2 Beth Kanter 12.18.07 at 12:22 am Michelle, I think we have to shift from thinking – wow, this is the cool and need to try it to being critical.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, like the tradition that the name of this blog comes from, I want to look at technology without attachment or aversion – with an openness to different ways of thinking about, or doing technology in the nonprofit sector.

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