Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve already talked on this blog about Salesforce integration with Drupal , Plone , and others. It has become a powerful platform, and there is a lot you can do with it – but it was never designed with content or visual design in mind. What are the advantages?

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APRIL 9, 2009

Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Creative Commons And Open Content. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal. CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. First, there’s the blogging issue. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. This blog is rated 8.2 This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. at blogged.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? And NOWHERE have I been able to find a good, basic, user-oriented “what are these content types and what do I do with them?&# sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. Pretty presentation with no content is useless. It feels quite good, actually.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog. Joomla is great for a website CMS – it’s great for categorized content, multiple levels of menus, granular control of layout of content, etc. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls.

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MARCH 24, 2008

The conference was rich with great speakers and content, and it’s great to see how far things have come. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference. It was incredibly well organized and smooth running, the food and snacks were great, and the parties rocked.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing. at 10:17 pm Hi all, We’ve developed XLsuite which combines CRM with CMS and includes things like blogs and forums. What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate? 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { Good stuff!

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JUNE 25, 2008

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. And ultimately, in Michelle’s perfect world, all software, all content, all hardware, etc. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. would all be free (libre).

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JUNE 18, 2007

I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. tool to jump in.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. It’s great that I can follow all of the content (blogs, tweets, Flickr photos, etc.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

He has a lot less knowledge of open source communities, and how they work, so I have some homework for him: If you only read one blog, read Matt Asay’s The Open Road. Matt Asay is a key member of the company behind Alfresco, an open source Content/Document Management system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I won’t talk much about it in this blog again, but I thought it might be something people would want to hear about. I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. Thanks for blogging. at 6:40 am I just read on a blog about web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) [link] There is also a FireFox toolbar to go with it. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Besides, the sole mission of this blog is … well, a blog. :-) As far as NOSI is concerned, NOSI might indeed be one of those small minority of nonprofits where the web site metrics do in fact have some measure of relationship to our mission. What content does the best? 2 admin 09.18.07 I don’t pick fights, either).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? We’ll be continuing this on each of our blogs, with cross-linking. But then I looked deeper.

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APRIL 8, 2007

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 04.09.07

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MAY 29, 2008

Probably not that well, because I think we’re still about 6 months away from Wordpress being an out-of-the-box CMS — a bit too much tweakery is still required, especially with regards to category-smart dynamic inline content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Best and easiest out of box *content management* system out there. Wordpress… Cuz if you’re going to customize it anyway, and yes you are going to customize it, why not go with the simplest solution out there? 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09 at 8:05 pm Thanks for this post. Definitely agree on all fronts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

It introduced me to a new blog, called Read/WriteWeb , which I’m liking a lot. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More on Facebook July 17, 2007 Michelle Martin has a great post this week on Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. Jon Biedermann Vice President DonorPerfect Fundraising Software blog: [link] 6 admin 08.09.07 David Zeidman 3 Jim Barney 08.07.07 at 9:24 am Excellent summary. Click & Pledge will soon be launching a new version of its SaaS for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Part I September 9, 2006 I liked doing the Intellectual Property series in the earlier incarnation of this blog. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , integration , nptech , opensource { 1 trackback } CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) | KAMAL PANHWARS BLOG 09.17.09 If you have detailed info, please feel free to share in the comments. at 8:18 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Donald Lobo 01.26.09

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