Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 I’m sorry I missed that session! But the next step is Penguin Day !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. So we’ll see how it works. I’ll keep you posted. And, if you’re already on facebook, add me as a friend.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Seth Gottlieb (a fellow Western Mass person) has a great post on his blog about how to go about looking at the communities around open source projects. It’s definitely worth a read. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. Do you think the numbers in Angela’s presentation for FLOSS in general are on target?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Using Red Hat, as I often do sometimes, feels like doing battle in comparison. Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Here's how to search on Technorati. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I think it needs some updating, but it’s actually still pretty relevant. That’s a good thing. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Go read it, but I think for those us who trying to educate nonprofits about blogging, we need her closing point in mind: Fundamentally, our biggest goal should be bringing a new generation to weblogging. Technorati Tags: backchannel , net2 , nptech , lesblogs Okay, off to London now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

I'd like to point you over to two good posts that aim to help educate everyone about this serious issue. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying is a real issue, impacting many women (and men) online - not just the high profile a-list bloggers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

And, while looking through the program I found noticed that Nelson Layag from Compasspoint is presenting on "Educating to Mobilize the Masses." " The description is: How can organizations educate their masses for door-to-door canvassing, fundraising, or advocacy? Technorati Tags: seriousgames , sl , nptech , net2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 I think tagging posts w/ technorati can help w/ this to because it can be a way to submit a post to a certain planet… 5 katrin 12.14.06 It’s a mess out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 Some software, like Firefox, is like that kitten that is easy – it learns to be litter trained once, and just sits on your lap (or in its little bed) in a ball and sleeps, and plays only when you want it to. brilliant.

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re in the information age and the rapid and flexible flow of information is critical to the business of government, to commerce, to education, and to individual development. education in Africa? , How best to run HIV/AIDS prevention education for at-risk populations in Africa? Technorati Tags: Global Development Commons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me. Its members are NGO management specialists and practitioners who are working in the fields of development, environment, humanitarian aid and education in the South and the North. Technorati Tags: ngomeme Blame Paul Currion who blogs at humanitarian.info.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 went into other software and data needs of organizations, I daresay they might not be in as much of a pickle as they are in terms of making choices about vertical apps. at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07 Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. We’ll see… Anyway, if you’ll be at NTC, come by and see where I got to. The geekout will be on Thursday at 3:30.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

To some degree, the educational value is in being able to reinvent the world. s a powerful educational thing. s educational. s nothing intrinsically educational about Second Life. s certainly educational to have a world where most of the content is generated by the users??? Technorati Tags: VECoP

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Technorati Tags: broadband , hughesnet , satellite { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Catherine Carey 03.06.07 About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times. Now, it’s at: That sucks. At least I’ll be able to upload this blog entry. More on this saga soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

A natural way to roll this out may be by department - the way the Walker Arts Center started with its New Media Department and Community and Education Department. Technorati Tags: nptech Through sessions like this, you would identify staff members' whose jobs depend on having a system to organize information and share it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 Even though this very-big-nonprofit was rolling in money, they thought the pie was finite, and that if the money didn’t go through them, they’d get less. So the scarcity mentality isn’t just for small, struggling nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 &# just doesn’t cut it for me. Wanna know what I’m doing? Check my Skype status. Those windows are already open, and I use them everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Nonprofits could use flickr to document and share a process with colleagues or staff in a remote office, similar to how these educators are using flickr. Technorati Tags: nptech cambodia. I was inspired about the possibility of how the Cambodian blogosphere might share knowledge cross-culturally across the globe via flickr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07 He’s down to earth, ruthlessly honest, and gets right down to the heart of things. I like JP’s take on the development side of nonprofit issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I n Second Life, we would like to create a virtual GlobalGiving community that features project descriptions and links, along with virtual representations and games to educate and inspire volunteers to market and raise funds for projects on globalgiving.com. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , npsl Details will be available soon!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: intellectualproperty , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. It makes me think a lot about how much we are governed by fear – even in the realm of things that seem only technological. Mitchell 06.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It's here The context- arts educators in a workshop looking at how can they integrate the use of email, web pages, or google searches into their practice. Now, I have no idea what the context was like for educational technology conference where Nancy was working. Technorati Tags: 2ndwave but curious.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 It’s really worth a read. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

s mission is to address the problem of deforestation in Cambodia, with a focus on educating the public on conservation of natural resources. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? The monks help us with our environmental education and advocacy work. Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

Aside from the gee whiz cool factor and not to mention the fact that it is very early adopter, this interface has some amazing potential for cutting edge educational projects, musuem exhibitions, or simulations. Technorati Tags: iasummit2007 Update: Read Stacy's blog post aobut the panel here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Technorati Tags: linux , nptech , opensource , windows , ubuntu { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands: Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith 05.22.07 Technorati Tags: linux , nptech , opensource , windows , ubuntu { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands: Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith 05.22.07

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