Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. Being an independent consultant was, for me, a way to feel like I was using my skills for the greater good. I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. And, I think I did that.

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MAY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately. Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes.

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JULY 14, 2021

Mary Sumners, Vice President of Annual Giving, Kennari Consulting – Mary’s areas of expertise include annual giving strategies, capital campaign management, and board and volunteer committee support. Enter any number of musical themes (does anyone hear the Jaws theme?) About Kennari Consulting. We’ve all been there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

"It's a novel idea that homeless youth have so much to offer, and that these youth could really make the difference at this shelter. As it turns out, so many of these youth absolutely love animals." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology I’m hosting the carnival next week April 11, 2008 (Photo by frankienose ) I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants here, next week. So send in your best of the week! {

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week I published an interview with Lean Start Up author, Eric Ries, that talked about how the lean start up ideas apply to the nonprofit sector. Our own experiences—in philanthropy, consulting, and academia—lead us to applaud the network “crescendo” and join the chorus. Flickr Photo by Banana Custard.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In this free webinar, Beth Kanter will share ideas and tips from her new book, and will be joined by Ashley Boyd of MomsRising (one of the featured case studies in the book) to share how they put the measurement frameworks described in the book into practice. Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

It all sounds like LinkedIn wants to pull all of those people who have been migrating to Facebook back into their fold, with the idea that LinkedIn is serious about business. I expect that this will enhance the appeal of LinkedIn for nonprofit executives, staff, and consultants for our own networking needs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 12, 2008

I’ll be on hiatus for about another week, and will have some long awaited new FOSS tools, as well as other posts that have been brewing for a while. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye. I’m looking forward to it. I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

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

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DECEMBER 1, 2007

I was the note-taker for the session, and I feel like there are a lot of great ideas out there. The thing we have actually done the most of is write the primer , and I’ve got more ideas for types of open content that NOSI could get involved in doing, so these suggestions for business models are quite welcome. {

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Maura Lafferty, an independent communications consultant working with classical musicians and performing arts organizations in San Francisco, CA. Dan Meager, director of marketing at Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, CA. Take her specific case: marketing classical music to a generally younger audience on social media channels.

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APRIL 3, 2008

Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Yes, they changed it, but it made me realize that it is a Bad Idea to put all of my eggs in one basket. However, there was an initial brou-haha about the EULA , which initially suggested that everything you type into the browser belongs to Google (talk about All Your Base Belong to Us!) I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This is great news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

(Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! There weren’t many takers on this one, but there are some real troopers out there in the nonprofit consultant blogosphere, so there’s some great stuff to talk about. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 16, 2007

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I’d tried it a couple of years ago, and it was buggy, crashed, and seemed like something that was a great idea, but not realized. You can also use it as a blog editor, which I am going to start trying out. It’s amazingly good. Now, it’s realized. It’s really quite nice.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

It is, I imagine, what the future of television will be. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

I’m looking forward to talking about free and open source software to this audience. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Get creative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

It originally came out of the idea of making moving eBase (the CRM based on Filemaker Pro) to the web. CiviCRM is a nonprofit-focused open source tool, centered around membership, fundraising, events and such. CiviCRM was one of the first (of a now growing number) of nonprofit-focused open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# To explain a bit – he does big money consulting with huge Fortune 500 companies, and does projects for hundreds of thousands of dollars that result in the companies saving, or making, millions. But, there are some useful ideas to mull over. {

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

I have to admit to being a very happy camper. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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APRIL 23, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

It is very easy to install, and there are an increasing number of consultants and companies offering support for Moodle. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

The first one is one that I’ve been using recently for my consulting business – SugarCRM. So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). Unlike CiviCRM, which is targeted to nonprofits, SugarCRM is a system targeted toward sales in for-profit companies.

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JULY 25, 2008

More on that in a later post. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! And, I’m learning a lot about what it’s like to be a leader of a small, struggling nonprofit with big ideas. Lots happening!

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