Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Ive been using CMSs for a while now and Im really involved with wordpress. It is unfortunate – it would be great to be able to get lots of themes for free (like for WordPress – the theme I’m using was a free one.) It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Many platforms, including Drupal and WordPress have responsive design themes available. Check out Idealware's articles Engaging Constituents Using Mobile Technologies and Building Websites for a Mobile Phone , NTEN's article, Four Strategies for Going Mobile , and NetSquared's roundup of Responsive Design Resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Is it your homepage, a standard landing page, or deep-linking to a press release, article, or transaction page (e.g. Don’t confuse visitors by linking to your homepage, for example, and then letting them search around for that article you told them about. next to individual media like articles, photos, and videos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup). Competitions, Awards, and Recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Although WordPress displays in U.S. Commentary from Michelle Murrain Allan Benamer. I so need a better system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

There are 18 articles. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) This is a must-read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. WordPress WordPress is a great choice for fairly small (a few hundred pages or less), simply arranged websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

BuddyPress – Works with WordPress but requires customization for some online groups. Networking Opportunities with NTEN – Community of nonprofit and technology professionals that include options for online and off-line interaction. A brief list of some highly recommended books, articles, and website. Additional Resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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JULY 28, 2010

And open source systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and Plone have brought these features within reach of organizations with limited budgets and staffing. . Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users understand the premise of HTML and can make simple edits to WordPress or MailChimp generated HTML code.

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