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SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Lullabot has a nice article on upgrading your site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 , in case your site isn’t ready for Drupal 7. Drupal 5 is no longer supported – which means that if there are security issues, they won’t be addressed.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Figuring this out is far beyond the scope of this article. And they become “green&# by purchasing renewable energy credits, or by purchasing carbon offsets. There are some arguments about whether or not these are really helping the environment. But I think it’s fair to say that the jury is still out on this one. So what to do?

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Another interesting thing was that I wrote an article for TechSoup, on “ The True Cost of Free and Low Cost software.&# I said this at the end of my response: This makes me wonder whether things have changed. 4 Laura Quinn 01.21.08

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JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 2) Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on July 27th. 3) No More Custom CMS.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. He even asks “What would Jesus do?&# Worth a read! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0,

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I’ve been doing a lot of technical writing – I just put the finishing touches on my third of three articles for LASA’s ICT Hub Knowledgebase , I’m writing an article on Open Office Base for the next issue of Linux Identity Magazine , and, of course, I’ve been busy writing the NOSI primer.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? There are some great tips in this Wired article. But, something has always been nagging me about them, especially Facebook.

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JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. The first article, on Mac database options , just got published last week. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.) One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming.

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APRIL 15, 2009

at 1:09 pm Thanks so much for the shout out…take a look at the latest article [link] Thanks so much for the support! 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09 at 4:21 pm We would love it if you’d add us (Home Free Organization) to your blogroll…we will do the same…thanks! 3 homefreeorg 11.06.09

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. {

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AUGUST 16, 2007

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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MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. But, as the article linked above says, they don’t have an official affiliate program, so it will take some shoe leather on your part to build the business aspects.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. are *yours* to do whatever you want with. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. {

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Watch the demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today.

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MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today.

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OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

You’ve inspired to reflect on them and write my own blog article! Being towards the “completely atheistic&# on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 at 6:50 pm Dear Michelle: Thanks for raising these questions.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to see my article about my impressions of snews…see sNews – an easy and simple web publishing tool for non profit organisations Each CMS should be judged by an org, on what it can provide now for an organisation as well as in the future.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 at 6:27 am First off, glad you liked the article.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

But this article isn’t about CF, it’s about technology change. ColdFusion has been around for 15 years (more than a century in Internet time), and although it has improved and developed, technologically, it has been surpassed by its successors (including PHP, Java, Python, RubyonRails, and even.NET.)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. Viewing the Author page one should be able to see Related Comments and Related Articles. There’s also that you can’t easily paginate multiple models in a single page. In fact that’s how the baked forms and scaffolding show this data.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Building open social networks – This is a great article on O’Reilly Radar about opening up the “social graph&# – it’s worth a look. Razoo – here’s another Change.org for you. There is a post forthcoming where I vent my social networking curmudgeonness.) My online identity score is 9/10.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Also, in reference to the title of this article, “Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought.&# – we’re simply not going away. We are one of the only larger companies that have succeeded the old fashion way- without venture capitalist money or outside investors.

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APRIL 7, 2007

The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons?

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