Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Book Reviews

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

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The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. We’ll be continuing this on each of our blogs, with cross-linking. Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. Below is his response.

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Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sometimes, even with larger providers, they manage to get around this by having detailed logs of conversations with you. I recently blogged about shortsightedness and one example in that entry was me not providing education as tech support when I probably should have: [link].) But with smaller providers it certainly is.

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