Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference! But then, you own it – you can do much more. at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. Be Helpful.

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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.) Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons. You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

tools in different cultures around the world. Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. 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.)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Come here about many different projects, ideas, and organizations in 5 minute rounds! Sessions and Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. Where did the idea for OpenAction begin?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. All of these are good questions, and will be totally different for different organizations. I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now. Which is just fine.)

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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

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. 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. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

With so many different features and prices, how do you pick a place to start? You can share both your Facebook and Twitter feeds on your site while giving your donors the opportunities to share their donations and involvement. But as you probably know, the process of deciding on the right software can slow you down. Don’t worry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! 9 Michelle Murrain 11.06.06 Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. It goes on to spell out in great detail how you might apply these 5 keys to different knowledge-transfer situations: for example, training sessions. open source. delivering a workshop), compared to evaluating a larger-scale outcome (e.g.

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" Until recently, these tools were too complicated and expensive for most nonprofit staff to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ? Tis the Season These sites may not be of interest to participants of " Buy Nothing Day ," on November 23, but what better way to feed your consumer urges and desire to good by shopping for charity!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Facebook and Twitter have been hit with different pockets of frustrated users. Twitter has been experimenting with secret algorithms too and testing to see if popular content should be filtered to the top of users Twitter feeds. Pay to play could be way for Twitter to monetize. Ello had great timing.

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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. I also saw the conference with some different, post-seminary eyes. 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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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

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Can import other sources well. upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Twitter - great/easy way to let people know when new episodes are out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. That's it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. At a cost of only $.99,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. Yammer works like Twitter--people send out short messages that anyone can read or follow. The difference is that all of the messages are internal to your institution. this is way too many different tools to learn! I like Wik.is

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Jumping on any technology bandwagon has its pitfalls, and this one is no different. After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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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!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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