Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

And, at times, I have been sorely dissapointed when people in the movement have done things that are violent or counter-productive, and when the discussion has gotten mired in what feels at somepoints to be arguments about non-violent tactics , who has claim to be most radical, or speak most for "the people.".

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

And, at times, I have been sorely dissapointed when people in the movement have done things that are violent or counter-productive, and when the discussion has gotten mired in what feels at somepoints to be arguments about non-violent tactics , who has claim to be most radical, or speak most for "the people.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

They can be very complex course management systems which are designed to do things like quizzes and grading (as well as discussions and have places to store course materials.) If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But, I’d send the query to both the nptech-related groups (like nten-discuss and nosi-discussion) as well as the Sugar folks – you might get some answers. 2 admin 04.20.08 at 5:54 pm I actually don’t know of a particular community of NP tech SugarCRM folks.

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JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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MAY 15, 2007

Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I offer this set of data points, if you will, with the hope that it will spark some thinking and perhaps discussion. Global climate change is beginning to affect our lives in a real way. Cloud computing. There is some argument as to whether or not cloud computing is good or bad for the environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. At many conference we hear folks discuss the communication strategies, results and benefits but rarely do we hear how it was actually done. @Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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JUNE 24, 2008

I hope you’re discussing the option of buying systems with linux preinstalled in the webinar. Brian Yes, I will discuss pre-loaded systems, and you are right, they are easier to deal with, for sure. I plug in in printers and they’re automatically set up. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08 at 5:28 am This is a shame.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Being towards the “completely atheistic&# on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. But I don’t see this blog spending so much time on the surface of things. You explore relationships our interactions with technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups.

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APRIL 15, 2007

I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

At this point, many nonprofit technology providers have blogs, and use them to get their message out (and, I think, create an interesting community that is somewhat changed from the community I knew pre-seminary, which was primarily fueled by email discussions.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux. Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

It’s not about the technology, but the technology can make your life miserable ;-) Drop me a note if you ever want to discuss this in more detail. We chose Persony because it had one of the simplest interfaces and had a one-time fee. In our case that was $299. 9 sundar 08.24.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The licensing issue would have been a good piece of that discussion.) If people have thoughts on a sustainable model by which small organizations can both publish open content and cover their costs in writing it, I’d be excited to discuss that. To wrap up, I just want to say thank you to Michelle for jumping on this right away. (I

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JULY 27, 2010

There was a very interesting and lively discussion about the gender field in Drupal profiles. Gender is not a standard field in Salesforce.com contact records, so if you want to add your own, you can customize it however you’d like. Of course, one can always customize these things in Drupal.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

He goes into a very interesting discussion of the matrix of strategies of information production: Rights-based, Nonexclusive-market, and nonexclusive-nonmarket types of production.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

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.

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