Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. On the one hand, it’s important to kep looking ahead to know what’s coming, and build systems and processes for our nonprofits that will still be relevant next year.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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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.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. 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 2 admin 10.02.07 at 9:53 am lol! .

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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 first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices. There is no question that you will get out of twitter what you give. And so what on earth does that really mean?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. Or whatever.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. That dog won’t hunt.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

" I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. The corporate sector have adopted it. Every local news station showed up. News coverage is a major driver of giving. He urged everyone to pay attention to this closely. Mike Seyfang responded. What is the first step?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. There’s some interesting news and plenty of free things this month. ” If the nodes on a graph thing is a bit baffling, I like CITEworld’s coverage on this news.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, it’s a great place to be. Twitter data: An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day. Email is a critical channel.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. Twitter data: An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day. Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. Well, Web 2.0

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. 46 And The Drivers Cooperative in New York raised over $1.6 It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”.

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