Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. I’d had bits and pieces of this in varied places, and in my head, but it was a good time to get it all down. Glad you like it. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

They ask, “How can we present to our Board of Directors, our funders, and our volunteers how much value volunteering brings to our ability to carry out our mission?”. These data sources are updated regularly and are easily accessed on the Internet. Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J. Abramson, Ph.D.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). 3 Beth 12.01.06

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The image below is a screenshot from a disaster preparedness exercise in Portland, Oregon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute.

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