Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field.

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APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

The python community has started a conversation about diversity, with the ultimate goal of creating basically a welcoming statement. In her blog post, Kirrily talks about two open source projects, Archive of Our Own and Dreamwidth that have a majority of women involved, which is rather unusual.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. Comments? { 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 3 Beth Kanter 01.20.08

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. She’s ahead of me since she actually reads librarian blogs. .&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

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. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc.

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JUNE 10, 2008

An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0

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JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. That feels good.

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JUNE 29, 2007

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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MARCH 20, 2008

They also launched their blog. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. at 5:39 pm @Thomas, I had a detailed conversation with the MPower folks – I’ll be blogging about it later. There will be penguins!!

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JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

Part of my perspective on this blog is a perspective I take in life: the means are the ends. I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. at 7:31 am Michelle — this will be a fun conversation!! (Is,

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

The second book, called “ Elements of Persuasion &# is a book that was sent to me for free – someone thought that I might want to review it on my blog. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. It’s worth a read, I think, if you have a message to get across. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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

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AUGUST 17, 2007

6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07 at 7:32 pm Change » Blog Archive » Web conferencing redux 12.08.07 at 12:32 pm Hi Michelle, Our Social Media Director came across your blog this morning, and passed the link along to me. 6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07 Can we please have a conversation?

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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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APRIL 7, 2007

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. Third, I want to invite people to participate in a conversation about how this could be done differently. Thanks for starting the conversation, Michelle.

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APRIL 24, 2007

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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