Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08 Be Helpful. If someone releases a “Chrome minus Google&# – that is, a version of Chrome with all of the “phone home&# code completely eliminated, then I’ll think about using that version, just to see what it’s like. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. Be Helpful. I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. He’s right.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

When I give talks about nonprofit blogging, I often use the Case Foundation's blog as an example of a juicy blog. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • It helps readers take action. Posts cover a range of topics (e.g. It's easy to share. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Going to a x.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 Be Helpful. Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Be Helpful. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you develop and hone the skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# 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. { Be Helpful. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 Be Helpful. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. There are all sorts of worthy candidates! {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 Be Helpful. 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.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. And Kontribune is a community newsletter that lets the audience add comments or content. The Human Element.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 BTW, do you know of or have an example from your clients where they have thoughtfully considered a facebook strategy or using these tools and it really wasn’t the right fit? Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. NetSquared.org - putting this URL in the search term area of the alert means that if someone wrote out our URL on their blog, for example, I would get alerted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. The number of stars depends on how your Post Quality compares to similar Pages (for example, Pages that have a similar number of fans.). It is calculated on a rolling seven-day basis… See More. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 Thank you again for your help. Be Helpful. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 7 Amit Ahuja 05.25.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

In any event, Kintera’s API goes a long way to help organizations be freed from yet another data silo, and they are free. 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.) gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 But there are successful counter examples. Be Helpful. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. So we’ll see what happens.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Would this help: 1) gain donors?

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APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? use monitoring tools.

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JUNE 10, 2011

What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. That’s where curation comes in to lend a helping hand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.&# Money is simply a means to an end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

For example, last year's vacation in Florida and my encounter with an alligator on from an airboat on the St. To hold steady with RSS subscribers and visitors. It was also set up in a way that I could get help from someone else. I've even lived blogged my vacations. John's River that I live streamed with my N95.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. For example, you can see that Arianna Huffington is much better at writing in her post: "All for Good: A New 'Craigslist for Service'" ! Examples like the TSA and EPA blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Heck, yeah, I could easily argue it will help them in their work. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 Sure, why not. at 10:40 am Twitter and Non-Profits-Are Baby Boomers Involved?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 Here’s an example of some activists using it: [link] And, yes, I’m doing some work for ooVoo. Be Helpful. That can share my Linux desktop. That would be the holy grail. 2 admin 01.31.08

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. While it isnt always practical to set up a knowledge exchange, especially if youre communicating with a large and diverse group (the "general public," for example), a two-way flow of information is widely accepted to be most effective.

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