Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

I know a lot of pretty serious geeks read this blog, but I also know some folks who aren’t do too, and I figured it was time to do a quick outline of web application frameworks, and how they differ from things like a CMS. People who are working with frameworks are spending much of their time dealing with code.

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APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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MARCH 24, 2010

A few months ago, in preparation for a couple of projects, and a big push into this area for our company, I was faced with a strategic choice – go it alone, and build our own integration module for client projects, or plunge into using and working with the contributed salesforce modules. Build on the work of others.

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APRIL 5, 2012

But I have been doing a lot of personal work around fear lately, and I have a different perspective. We need to acknowledge the fear, and work to listen to what it is trying to tell us. This image is making its way around facebook, and on first look, I can see why most people feel like it makes sense. Blog Category: Personal.

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APRIL 7, 2011

I’ll leave it to the graphics professionals to say for sure, but they are both worth a look if you don’t want to plunk down hundreds of $ for Photoshop and Illustrator, and/or you like to work with open source tools. I mean, everything.This means you don’t have to have several video players around to play different formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2011

In my time working on web development for nonprofit organizations, I’ve seen more RFPs than I can even begin to count. A mistake I see very often in RFPs is an imbalance in what is articulated in the RFP, and the kind of work that is required to pull off what’s needed. I’ve even written a few.

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APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I’m very much looking forward to the result – looking to see where this new set of tools that can talk freely to each other is working … and where it isn’t – where there is still work to be done. NTEN is trying to get a bit of a handle on this with the Data Ecosystem Survey.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

In this article, Gale points to an interesting shift within her organization (the Packard Foundation): “Over the past four years we have been shifting from evaluation for proof or accountability (“Did the program work?”) In a variety of different contexts. Some of it is well worked out, and some is nascent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

In this article, Gale points to an interesting shift within her organization (the Packard Foundation): “Over the past four years we have been shifting from evaluation for proof or accountability (“Did the program work?”) In a variety of different contexts. Some of it is well worked out, and some is nascent.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. Gotta work on that.

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MARCH 16, 2009

There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration. This is a pretty robust set of channels for data to move back and forth from Salesforce.com to Plone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

I’ve implemented CiviCRM together with Drupal, and I’m really psyched to keep working with this great combo. CiviCRM originally only integrated with Drupal, but recently a lot of work has been done to also integrate CiviCRM with Joomla. CiviCRM acts in Drupal like a module, and in Joomla like a component.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The shift from that kind of code, to writing for the web was a lesson in protocols, constraints, and different ways of troubleshooting. One has to understand how the surrounding application works – what APIs or methods one can use, and how.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

There are several to choose from, and they differ both in difficulty to get installed and working, as well as features. I don’t have a favorite yet, but I’m thinking I don’t need to have one - just to know which ones are well-maintained, and what the differences are in feature set. Want something barebones?

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MARCH 19, 2007

I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. 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.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

IPv6 has a different numbering scheme. If you own a website (VPS or server inside your firewall) you may well have work to do. Yes, this year (right after my birthday, in fact.). So what’s next? What do we do in this situation? In comes IPv6. It’s a new and improved internet Protocol, IPv6. It is in hexadecimal.

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JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Partially, it's because I've gotten out of the habit, and I'm going to work on changing that. A video I saw recently (a great one, worth watching), is called "The Revolution is Love" and there is a comment in it about how we don't just want to knock down the 1% and put a different 1% in it's place.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Partially, it's because I've gotten out of the habit, and I'm going to work on changing that. A video I saw recently (a great one, worth watching), is called "The Revolution is Love" and there is a comment in it about how we don't just want to knock down the 1% and put a different 1% in it's place.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’d say you eventually want it in three different formats: PDF. After you create your files, you’ll want to look at them, to see if they worked well. You can sideload any of these files to different devices to test them out. MobiPocket. PDF is easy.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

And there are varied opinions as to it’s usefulness (which I beg to differ on.) There are several core modules with PostgreSQL problems in Drupal 6, so I might actually go back and work on those first, before I can think about tackling what’s wrong with install.php and PostgreSQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I think a lot about both of these, not so much for myself, but for organizations that I work with whose work is fairly sensitive. Security and privacy in the context of online communities, as Beth points out, are different beasts. Beth threw down the gauntlet , and I had to pick it up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

What could I have done differently? Look at other custom database work they’ve done. And, frankly, have come to expect. And how unwilling people are to sacrifice that for raw functionality. I did a lot of self-examination: where did I go wrong? Was it the client? The developers? I realized a fairly simple truth.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

But the landscape is different now, and I think that, in some senses, the “build vs. buy&# decision is much more straightforward. I’m in the process of working with two organizations to create just that. First, the software available, whether it be open source, SaaS, or proprietary, is much better all round.

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MAY 6, 2011

What I like most about WordPress is that I don’t really have to do any work to use it, or tweak it. I love how easy it is to use.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The approaches are similar and different to each other. For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake - although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. Both of them seem to be PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails.

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MAY 15, 2007

Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

and a lot of different ways to track what your donors and constituents did, both online and off, and have those show up in really interesting ways. Organizations can get this package in three different ways: On premises - installed inside the firewall, hosted, or SaaS. More on those later.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

We work to make hacker sub culture values (transparency, meritocracy and generosity) the values of the entire culture and bring about the post scarcity society. We work toward our mission by trying to achieve our short term goals transparently and generously while accumulating only necessary wealth. Is it friendly? Is it welcoming?

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AUGUST 1, 2009

We work to make hacker sub culture values (transparency, meritocracy and generosity) the values of the entire culture and bring about the post scarcity society. We work toward our mission by trying to achieve our short term goals transparently and generously while accumulating only necessary wealth. Is it friendly? Is it welcoming?

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JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far. 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far. And if you’ve been used to the Photoshop workflow, it will take a lot to get used to the very different GIMP workflow. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

But the culture I grew up in is different than the culture I adopted in my early twenties, and for the first time, I got to be among many others who''d made that same choice--or something like it. But it has so much going for it, and so many dedicated people who care deeply about it, and work to make it a better place.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Anyway, they were looking for a different article – one that was more about the advantages of FOSS, not about the broad category of free (as in beer) and low cost software, which includes FOSS, proprietary, and SaaS. at 4:01 pm I think there’s also some difficulty with different parts of the audience being at different places.

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