Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A guest Beneblog by Max Schneider People don’t typically associate boisterous merengue music with high-tech statistical analysis. In October 2010, two former police officers were sentenced to 40 years in prison for this disappearance and the expert testimony of HRDAG statistician Daniel Guzmán was a key factor in the judges’ decision.

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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. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems. I know when a vendor knows their technology, and when they are blowing sales language at me, and might not be up to the technical task.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I’ve had a fair bit of experience with Drupal – nosi.net is run on Drupal, and I’d done a Drupal install once, and helped with some now and again. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

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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. 61% had experiences that made them feel closer to another person.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Qgiv Platform overview: Qgiv ’s fundraising platform was designed with the donor experience in mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. More configuration, more options, but still not good. 3) Evolution. It would mean switching my email. It might be worth it. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I co-administered that box for a few years. Eventually, they got a T1, and moved the server in-house. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

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Care2

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. She has over 15 years of experience as a community organizer and community builder in the United States and South Asia. That was before the kid and the dog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. Our aim is to promote the psychological well-being of young children in Hong Kong through parent-child activities using media such as art, music, drama and story-telling. At one of the pre-conference master classes, I met 2 young women from Cairo. He asked them a question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. Her posts are thoughtful and accessible for non-techies. I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! I appreciate your patience as I know my ignorance was showing. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. I had to go command line in order to get online. So I had to dig out of my memory (and do some online looking) about iwconfig.

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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. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It is a huge community, so it is hard to get to know users, since there are so many, but it’s not commercialized, from my experience. I do disagree with you about the commercialization of the Joomla community, though.

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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. 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). Silence is also good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06 7 Todd Sieling 09.28.06 Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And it’s nice to know that all of the last 8 years or so as a “technology vendor&# as it were, will be there as good experience and guidance as I work with clients. All of the stuff that I liked the most about nonprofit technology, and, honestly, what I’m probably best at.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Instead, I’m going to share some of my experiences and tell how an organization that embraces diversity can have a huge impact for people with disabilities. 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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

" Armed with this vision, Carr secured a private grant and launched Legacy of Hope Austin (LOH) in 2010. The 2dance2dream program is designed for children with special needs to creatively express themselves through movement and music. They get why it is so important for all of us as a community to experience."

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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. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

When I signed up for her mailing list in the fall of 2010, I received a PDF of the first chapter of her book-in-progress with the working title, The Team: How to Live an Abundant Life by Healing Yourself and the World. Finding Your Own North Star , The Joy Diet ). She always delivers good advice with a healthy dose of humor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TikTok: There is a lot of pressure right now to create (time-consuming) long-form videos for TikTok (and Instagram Reels), but only experiment if you have 3-10 hours per week and staff that are comfortable on camera. 2023 is a good year to start experimenting with fundraising on Instagram if you haven’t already. BackLinkO ].

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Before the end of the year we conducted a survey to find out what the Games for Change community believed were the best social impact games of 2010. Not only does the game turn "doing good" into a fun experience, it's also creating a legion of content creators who are comfortable being themselves online. #

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Maybe in 2010 well both switch! Will it be a plug and play experience or will my children ask me why I'm using the "f" word so much? Research the trick your IPOD music collection can live on different computers or at least be copied over. What new challenges would await me when I opened that box?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

can transform the teaching and learning experience. So, even if you have a Linux workstation, you get the same superior user experience every time. Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate Live! In other words, Elluminate Live!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of it is being prompted by my own technology support experiences with my satellite “broadband&# provider (which have been largely frustrating). Really a lot. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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