Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

blogger, even though I do end up talking a fair bit about it anyway. 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes. But the most surprising thing is that a larger number of people than I expected liked what I had to say about Web 2.0.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. I won’t talk much about it in this blog again, but I thought it might be something people would want to hear about. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’). The latter is not as applied, not as immediate, and in the short-term not as usable to our members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Which puts us in danger of tipping an environment in which it’s very difficult to support good content into one in which it’s downright impossible. Think of the people who now depend on Linux, on Google everything, on MySpace and Blogger, etc. 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07 And I think that in the new Web 2.0 6 Valorie Zimmerman 04.10.07

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