Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 2, 2009

As you can tell, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. Best practices and examples for nonprofit web design from Smashing Magazine. Here are some great links I’ve come across that I thought were worth sharing: Get the NTEN IT Staffing and Spending Report. Good stuff! Take a peek at Google Wave.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 2, 2009

As you can tell, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. Best practices and examples for nonprofit web design from Smashing Magazine. Here are some great links I’ve come across that I thought were worth sharing: Get the NTEN IT Staffing and Spending Report. Good stuff! Take a peek at Google Wave.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. 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. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS. 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 6 Brian 03.01.08

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit How To’s @ This Week’s Carnival 09.26.07 When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases?

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JULY 27, 2008

I got some interesting answers: Ken, at the Nonprofit Consulting Blog, talks about transparency , and how it’s a big mistake not to be transparent. ’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design.

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JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads.

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JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. But there are successful counter examples. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news? So we’ll see what happens.

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

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.&#

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08 however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog. I found it through Beth’s Blog. Perhaps a bit of the “Zen&# you offer here in your valuable blog. 2 Michelle Murrain 11.16.06

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. He’s right.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) at 6:04 pm » Blog Archive » Convio Jumps on the Open API Bandwagon 10.17.07 They work by REST via POST, or JSON. at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc?

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JUNE 24, 2008

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ve heard my various sagas around using Linux on the desktop. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 For example: broadcom chipsets.

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MAY 3, 2009

I’ll be installing CiviCRM from svn in the next week, and I’ll probably blog more as 2.3 I saw the example of it used for the Physician Health Program in Canada. I don’t have the new svn trunk of CiviCRM installed, otherwise, I’d show some screenshots, but it looked really nice. (I’ll develops.).

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JULY 19, 2007

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

An example: One of the first weeks I was here, I remember going to Farmer Joe''s on Fruitvale, and walking by a black lesbian couple getting out of their Prius. Blog Category: Personal Tweet' And they had Birkenstocks on--or were they Keens? I won''t be one of them, but I''ll be rooting for Oakland always.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2008

Here’s an example of some activists using it: [link] And, yes, I’m doing some work for ooVoo. It can be found at [link] They’re an online video telecom service that’s can have up to six people talking at once. And, as a competitor to Skype, ooVoo is much lighter on your system it’s quite easy to use.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) I’m assembling a panel now and need some good case studies, so if you’ve got examples, please email me. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 11 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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JANUARY 29, 2008

at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog. WordPress is one of the best blogging tools known to humankind, but I’d never want to use it to do a website that needed good categorization of content, and Joomla is way overkill for just a blog. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Great blog by the way – keep up the great work! :) 2 Marnie Webb 04.12.08 Though I’ve been thinking some about organizations that need an immediate influx of something — clothing donations to a women’s shelter for example — could us it. Thanks for this excellent blog!!!!! 3 Seth Schneider 04.15.08

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

First, there’s the blogging issue. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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AUGUST 7, 2007

I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Even though it is true that anyone can join either network, the data in them is limited only to those who join, and join networks and have friends. Wired says : Therein lies the rub.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Not knowing how to use IRC to get support for your OS, for example, is a really big barrier to using Free/Libre software — because you are missing out on the network support system that makes open source work. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

An example: One of the first weeks I was here, I remember going to Farmer Joe's on Fruitvale, and walking by a black lesbian couple getting out of their Prius. Blog Category: Personal. And they had Birkenstocks on--or were they Keens? I won't be one of them, but I'll be rooting for Oakland always.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

He gave me a demo and overview of their NetCommunity tool, which has been around for a while, and I figured it deserved a blog entry. It is, in fact, a great example of integration of a CMS and a CRM.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

at 6:56 pm Top 10 blog posts of 2008 :: Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.26.08 There’s for example, no sane way of specifying joins. Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. at 11:56 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe 11.06.08 You can’t tell it, I need a join here.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Jon Biedermann Vice President DonorPerfect Fundraising Software blog: [link] 6 admin 08.09.07 There are certainly some examples where it is true. And, I’m sure there are more to come. at 10:03 pm Jon, That is a funny video.

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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. 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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APRIL 24, 2007

(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].) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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