Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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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.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I need to figure out a good network configuration. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. From my perspective, the key is openness. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. 5 Jon Biedermann 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The time and effort it would take to maintain a blog isn’t going to result in any better accomplishment of mission. Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Which is just fine.)

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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 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard Is this referring to activation? This sounds quite different than the activation issue. Get Ubuntu , and have done already.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

They both have good documentation and active communities. For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it.

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