Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Release Candidate to help with QA, which has been fun (and 2.3 I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0, for at least 4 years. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

But there are some very cool and fun widgets. I haven’t tried really hard to use them to create community (and no one that I know has yet IMed me because they saw I was online from my blog.) And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. (The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Although I do have to admit its fun to know what a very old friend is listening to on Pandora.) I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? What have I learned in all of this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. I bet you did.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. at 7:31 am Michelle — this will be a fun conversation!! (Is,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

For news and happenings from the live event, feel free to follow me at @jordanv on Twitter). The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

But, still, although Facebook has been fun to play with, and many of my colleagues are using it, and it doesn’t take away from my workflow – it hasn’t actually helped me do much work. But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Animoto :: animoto.com. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. This tool could come in handy for those nonprofits that respond to crisis situations and accidently send out tweets based on incorrect news reports. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Animoto :: animoto.com. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. Fun will be had by all. Well, Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ghost : Many folks who have moved off Substack have gone to Ghost which is an open-source platform with similar functionality. What I’m Reading by Phil Lewis – Phil is a reporter based in Detroit whose Substack newsletter shares engaging and informative news stories about the Black experience in America.

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