Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. So first, what is data portability?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We are creating whole new infrastructures that didn’t exist before (think Facebook, Google, etc.) I remember we talked about planning to replace 1/4 to 1/3 of the hardware in an organization each year. One could argue that 100 servers running at 1/2 capacity is better than 200 servers running at 1/4 capacity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. 2 admin 06.11.08

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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. I do think the biggest mistake an organization can make in the re/creation of its website is to go with the vendor with the lowest bid. Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

And, you will get the occasional promo post about something the organizations that I am on the boards of (Aspiration and NTEN) are doing. I won’t explain how or why to use twitter or facebook, unless you are trying to put a twitter stream into a Drupal page ( moving data, open source.)

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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. They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

And just like OpenSocial was a great answer to Facebook, this is a great answer to the iPhone. But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. Why is this good news for nonprofits?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? I echo Holly and Jack’s reliance on blogs/RSS readers, also twitter, friendfeed and professional groups and connections on Facebook. How do you keep up? 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. 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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