Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Be Helpful.

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MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. Open source is a community-driven effort.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. People believe in the internet. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Would you be willing to donate a recording of yours?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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APRIL 1, 2021

This simple act saves your organization a lot of funds that would’ve otherwise been spent on replacing you. You hold a lot of value for the organization and they want to keep you around for the long haul. . Now, however, in the age of the internet, we have new learning opportunities emerging everywhere we look!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

And this creates serious personal threats in an era where numerous organizations around the world collect individually identifiable data that regularly leaks into other hands. Take for example a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights-focused organization with which we work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. If a nonprofit organization has a server, it’s actually not so unlikely that it is running RHEL. 2 Brian 11.23.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? Because these applications are not proprietary, and anyone can get their hands on them, and install and use them, this means that nonprofits get the benefit. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel "The New Connectivity: Storytelling for the Digital Age" focused on best practices for nonprofits and other social good organizations to spread their message over social media. Sachs advised organizations to look to ancient mythology when forming their stories. Heroic Stories Capture Nonprofit Audiences.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. Before you sign up, read the privacy policy carefully.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Actually, I didn’t use the Battlestar Galactica expletive , I used the one you’re more familiar with. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. It is named, as of now, Aikido. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If your organization deals with sensitive information such as health records, confidential reports, or family issues, you should consider encrypting your data. All of this software is free and much of it is open source. You can't do end-to-end encryption for everything, but you can encrypt a lot of your Internet traffic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. Redefining government is the next step.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 16, 2007

Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.) He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

The other 1/2 of my time I’m doing consulting work , focusing exclusively on helping organizations without a lot of technical expertise navigate their way through the maze of creating and getting through technology projects. I love this work. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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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. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether you're thinking about making some small enhancements to your organization's website or planning a complete redesign, you'll find plenty of useful information and tips from TechSoup and our global partners. TechSoup Canada offers four points to consider when planning your organization's website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

There are lots of Facebook applications that let you share data with other services--for example, you can link your Twitter account to your Facebook account and update your Facebook status every time you tweet. Applications like Datamasher would be far more numerous and effective if government made its data accessible over APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. 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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Care2

APRIL 12, 2009

Join environmental experts at the next Internet Advocacy Roundtable on April 16th at 3PM for a discussion on breaking our addiction to oil. The DoGooder TV awards received almost 400 submissions from 175 nonprofit organizations and causes. Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Getting Wired for Progress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. Allan, in his inimitable style, talks about how most nonprofit organizations will not be able to take advantage of OpenSocial. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. No question about that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

“Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization.&# We hope that that contributes in a very positive way to the way people around the world can work together — regardless of geographic location, computer skills, application, OS, and budget. you the picture.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. You’ll notice that right away below the fold.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Tags: Influence Collaboration Data & Visualizations Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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