Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

An example from an events management application: The organization should be able to create several different kinds of events, and determine for each kind of event which detailed information will be taken. Those events can be displayed in a list or calendar format.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

An example from an events management application: The organization should be able to create several different kinds of events, and determine for each kind of event which detailed information will be taken. Those events can be displayed in a list or calendar format.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Depending on project, going from x.2 Going to a x.0 is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

An example: One of the first weeks I was here, I remember going to Farmer Joe''s on Fruitvale, and walking by a black lesbian couple getting out of their Prius. I''m very sad that I don''t get to have both the close to nature quiet that I seem to require, and the community, too--but somehow, that''s just not the way this country is organized.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

It is, in fact, a great example of integration of a CMS and a CRM. It is, in many ways, the kind of CRM/CMS integration that lots of organizations want and need. Organizations can get this package in three different ways: On premises - installed inside the firewall, hosted, or SaaS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

He has some good ideas and suggestions about how to be transparent as an organization through the website. ’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works. He gave some sweet examples of it’s use (like teamsugar.com ) which is amazing, and made me totally rethink using Elgg. It was a great introduction, and I’m totally sold on it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

An example: One of the first weeks I was here, I remember going to Farmer Joe's on Fruitvale, and walking by a black lesbian couple getting out of their Prius. I'm very sad that I don't get to have both the close to nature quiet that I seem to require, and the community, too--but somehow, that's just not the way this country is organized.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. It’s hard to control such an organic process, and control is something a lot of people really like. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# Thanks for the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

In any event, Kintera’s API goes a long way to help organizations be freed from yet another data silo, and they are free. Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? at 12:14 am I’m curious about how organizations can use Twitter. Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Second is that Linux servers seem to have made very serious inroads into nonprofit organizations, such that they are becoming almost commonplace. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. For large organizations, you may be correct in this assessment, but I’m not so sure, even. For example: broadcom chipsets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

BTW, do you know of or have an example from your clients where they have thoughtfully considered a facebook strategy or using these tools and it really wasn’t the right fit? I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. But there are successful counter examples. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? Many shouldn’t, but, some, arguably, certainly can.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). And the way to get FOSS alternatives is for organizations, foundations and others to invest time and energy into those options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a corporate license, this means that it is for use by people within your organization. You may post it to your intranet, so long as access to that intranet is restricted to those who work for your organization [emphasis mine]. I’m in an absurd position, personally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

A lot of it has been because I have lately been exposed to situations where I have felt organizations haven’t gotten the support they need, which, in our world, I think is all too common. In the past, for me, my ongoing support relationships with clients have been the way that I have learned the most about their organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings. One example: since Joomla doesn’t have granular ACLs (Access Control Lists) there must be issues with how permissions work in terms of access to specific parts of CiviCRM.

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