Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. You go girl!

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JUNE 12, 2012

The NTEN Community consistently learns and shares from each other, creating opportunities to highlight the work that we all do. Have more news to share? Have more news to share? Their new report dives into lessons on how to engage volunteers in community change efforts, telling the unique story of KaBOOM!, The Lights.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Missing Persons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Since early December, the issue has been covered on over 60 nonprofit and philanthropy blogs, technology blogs and press, and news publications, including The New York Times , Huffington Post , The Guardian , Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Quarterly , Cause Marketing Forum , and Foundation Center.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Allan Benamer talks about Convio’s new big client, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, for their Salesforce-based application formerly known as Aikido, presently known as Common Ground. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Movable Type goes Open Source December 13, 2007 This is old news, sort of. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out – both are incredibly strong applications.

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Here’s why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. I sure hope the reality catches up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important. 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 9, 2008

These posts on open source applications are so helpful. Update: I’ve been using it now as my default browser for the last day or so, and it is really growing on me. { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands » Blog Archive » Because the power of the Internet increases as people get connected. at 7:46 am Just wanted to say: thanks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

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. This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox.

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JANUARY 4, 2008

It’s a LAMP stack application. The admin interface is nice looking, and fairly intuitive. The surveys could stand some graphic design help, but you can design templates for it. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. { Worth a look if your organization does surveys. { Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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DECEMBER 18, 2007

Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. What is Asterisk, you ask?

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Things that make me feel better December 14, 2006 As someone who has developed web database applications for clients, I always hate when they get errors. Things like this make me feel so much better.

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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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. Well, the iPhone 3G changed the equation, some. The iPhone 3G does have 3rd party apps, but they have to be vetted, etc. by Apple, which is a mixed bag.

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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. at 2:30 pm Great breaking np tech news. It is named, as of now, Aikido. It seems in a business sense, to be a brilliant move.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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JUNE 18, 2007

And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. So we’ll see how it works.

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JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. They announced that their server product, Quickbooks Enterprise , will be released to work on Linux Servers.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. So what’s the news? 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 Bad Blogger! (I

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JANUARY 24, 2008

It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.) It is a great blogging tool. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

I get to use my expertise in web application development, but not have to do any web application development (which feels to me a lot like having my cake and eating it too.) And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with.

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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. The news today, and why I’m bothering to talk about this, is that Red Hat announced that it will offer RHEL – their enterprise distribution, on Amazon E2.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

A while ago, when I was still developing web applications, I wrote a wiki plug-in for this behemothic open source CMS/Web database system that I wrote, and has (mercifully) died a slow death (there are still a few installations of it in use, hopefully soon to be retired.) Different enough to drive me crazy.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Special features this year include Canadian giving, #GivingTuesday, and mobile giving. A Study of Nonprofit Use of Cloud Software by NTEN, supported by Microsoft Philanthropies. billion in total fundraising and $2.2 50 Fascinating Philanthropy Stats. The State of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications. I’m trying out some new themes soon. { For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M.

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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. That’s good news.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

First off, it means that in the short term, it will be possible to write just one application, and reach multiple social networks, thus expanding reach. In the long term, if the whole web 2.0 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07

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