Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 Happy Thanksgiving!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 at 10:43 am I think there’s a typo/error in the Clickz quote (which comes from the original). 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

My tip: Allow non-registered users to comment – I imagine you’d get more comments that way. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.) I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 soon, once I finish catching up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

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 Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Here are some examples of categories and how they might be implemented within a website: Show – Recent Tweets, Likes, Comments. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Open Source – API. Check out the Brooklyn Museum’s API documentation for some pretty advanced tech sharing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. Log in to tell us how you used it in the comments. hardware open source'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. of them have open APIs (that is, they allow other software to interact with them, and grab data, or add data,) they aren’t really interoperable (see Marshall Kirkpatricks excellent post on issues regarding Yahoo and del.icio.us Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 I think it might be better not to start at all. Or whatever.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. That dog won’t hunt.

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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. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. is still relevant.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Leave a Comment. Comments (required).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. A few comments over at Kikono too. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panel: Delicious Tech for Localism: Sustainable Food 2.0 Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 04.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? How about options where investment feeds back and benefits everyone, instead of a few people? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Zeidman 09.03.07 OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. It is also becomes my muse and a key source of inspiration. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I've opened the Kimono to my creative process. published in 1999.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 A service of Tech Impact , npCloud is a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure all nonprofits can use cloud-based technology to better serve their communities. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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