Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues.

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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. It’s definitely worth a listen. I need to figure out a good network configuration. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. 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.) All-in-one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. For some things, there are lots of relatively decent choices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool.

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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? I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools. For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. For me this is about good tools for people trying their damn hardest to make, each in their own way, make the world better. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. And precisely (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. Tools and Resources.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. We have definitions of legit nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. Definitely agree on all fronts. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

We’ll discuss how to produce a podcasts using free tools and from scratch, including pre-production, recording, editing, processing, and rendering. general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. Soundboards - definitely not necessary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Act 2: Definitions. But first, some definitions. Set up everyone with a bookmarklet tool and show them how to use it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. These resources and tools thus improve equality of opportunity. But it’s a journal about technology and social change !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. 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 Wordle is an online tool that allows you to easily create word clouds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What do these tools allow you to do? It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

that I will highlight, I’ll give you a short definition of what Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 tools – since in many ways, the most important aspects of Web 2.0 Then, I’ll talk about RSS and XML. I think Web 2.0,

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