Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

I’ve been thinking about the purpose of this blog in my life for the last few months. I started blogging specifically on technology just over 6 years ago, took about a year hiatus in 2005-2006, and have been writing consistently here ever since. Was this blog a success? But the time has come for me to stop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

On the right is my blogroll, that needs updating, but I thought I’d do some shout outs to blogs I’ve lately been loving and really learning a lot from, who are probably not on that list (yet). ONE/Blog - ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me. Tags: Uncategorized nptech.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Forums and blogs too! With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. and Drupal.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. This blog entry from 2007 is about being open about one’s mistakes.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. Just yesterday, I spotted this programmer's blog post about why he has opted NOT to provide his work as Open-Source. image posted as [link]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 5, 2011

Fluxx | Open Source Grants Management. tags: grants CRM opensource toblog nptech. tags: toblog women technology developers. tags: cryptography secure communication toblog. Catch My Fame » jQuery Before/After Plugin. tags: jquery plugin image toblog. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Annoyed because it seems the nptech community hasn’t figured this out, even being hit over the head with this over, and over, and over again. I love to write blog entries about successful open source efforts – like CiviCRM, or the amazing stuff people are doing in the mobile space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

I think over the course of lo this last few years, I have blogged or tweeted about this very phenomenon what feels like countless times. Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? nptech opensource socialmedia. But now that Ning isn’t free anymore , I’m going to carp some.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. I also emailed Dirk Slater to find out what he knew about this project: Its really interesting how Open Source is taking off because of localization issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. How are they different from taxonomies? Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Are you using Google+ Open source vs proprietary CMS Just what is a data scientist anyway? Images for blogs List of #nptech conferences in 2014 5 Tips for responsive web design Reasonable remote support options Did your favorite post make the list? Let us know what it was in the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. And they did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? " I agree.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. I use WP pretty much everyday, between my own blogs, and helping clients maintain theirs. It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech online community Blogging Social networking membership database websites Membership management data backup open source software content Ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. All of these lists tend to favor those who blog in more general, popular topic areas, and not those who are specialists in an area. Technorati Tags: blogher nptech Via Nancy White.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I’m sure that this post probably won’t make much of a dent, since I suspect that at least 70% of the people who send me stuff (I get 6-10 emails a week that fall into this category) have never read this blog (even though they might say they love it.) Once I get this blog post done, I can clean out that “To Blog&# inbox.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog. You can grab the slides and read her notes and commentary on her blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. NetSquared Community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. I read her blog for great tips on professional development and technology. { Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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