Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. It’s free, you can set up as many of them as you like, and you can choose to get roundups or individual alerts as well as subscribe via email or RSS. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails. If you are new to RSS, here’s a great video to explain it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Scheduled to occur sometime between late 2009 and early 2010, some major changes are coming to Facebook Fan Pages. I think those nonprofits with national and international brand recognition, lots of fans, and technical resources will benefit and the changes will hardly affect them. Again, we will just have to wait and see.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. at 5:14 pm That’s a pretty sad story, Michelle, and interesting that it was coming from a nonprofit that based on resources shouldn’t have been thinking that way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. It’s not intended to scale up to the proportions one would need for a major project like Python or Amanda. Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

More adoption means more developers involved, more users helping, more resources available. It’s not only that they are going to be contributing to the project – but remember the old adage “no one ever got fired for buying IBM&# ? IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

It leveled the playing field, so that an organization without many resources could do what at that time, required a lot of resources. 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

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I like the wide variety of resources he brings to bear – he’s introduced me to a lot of great writers and thinkers in varied areas. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s enjoyable writing them, and also writing them for a non-US audience (although I’m sure plenty of US folks take advantage of their amazing resource.) One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. This will be my last tech blog entry until at least August 6th.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

And, of course, there has been a lot of resources and money poured into server software for Linux, but not as much for tools for the desktop. This does, for sure, hobble the usability of Linux on the desktop. Apple has the luxury of a hardware monopoly, so of course things are more likely to “just work.&# This is my dilemma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas). But, for the most part, I really don’t want to know what they are doing right now. I need less, and better data, not more. And there is more: it might keep me at my computer longer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense. at 12:11 pm “It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense.&# This feels like a different part of the digital divide. Unfortunately, none of this is especially simple to address. But it needs addressing. { Right, right, right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

In the end, the vast majority of non profits simply do not have the technology resources to use most open source solutions. 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 16, 2006

This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. 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

OCTOBER 20, 2006

One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs. Someone (I think it was Nick or Peter) said that nonprofits can do more than vendors think they can – so providing the resources is important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Chris Hughes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Its move to becoming an open source DB with a development/community approach similar to MySQL, and 30 years of attentiveness to the Enterprise customer makes it a great resource for Non profits. You might want to take another look at Ingres. Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g. hardware, network, application server…).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Its move to becoming an open source DB with a development/community approach similar to MySQL, and 30 years of attentiveness to the Enterprise customer makes it a great resource for Non profits. You might want to take another look at Ingres. Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g. hardware, network, application server…).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Its focus is on servers, and Fedora , it’s “community version&# does certainly benefit from Red Hat’s development expertise and resources, but it doesn’t have as vibrant a community as Ubuntu, for instance. It was the first Linux distribution to make it big in the business world.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

To meet this growing demand—which comes on top of each previous years increases—nonprofit managers continue to be resourceful in their efforts to balance mission, capacity, and capital. Or will we start having tough conversations about the limits of an incredibly resilient and resourceful sector?

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. I loved that idea. So much so that I'm stealing, I mean borrowing it. Check us out.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. I loved that idea. So much so that I'm stealing, I mean borrowing it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just because organization 1 gets 45,000 unique visits per month, and organization 2 gets 3,000 means nothing in relationship to the impact that organization has in the world, or in relationship to how it uses its resources. How many people are reading our materials in their RSS readers? And the mission of the organization matters too.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. Disclaimer Friday, March 18, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunteer?" posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. Disclaimer Friday, June 10, 2011 Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has been Revoked?

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday ! I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010. We will alert you when this study is available.

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