Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available. OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing.

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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. Even though I love promoting open source software and Linux among my non-profit clients, we’re not at the point where I could recommend Linux desktops for organization staff. 2 ThomasT 06.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And we all know how organizations end up reworking their procedures and way of doing things when a new large software implementation happens. And with bad systems, funding that is not adequate to capitalize change, and little rewards to innovation, risk, and thinking big. " Software uses metaphors all the time as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Note: These rates are not for nonprofit organizations – they are the standard rates. I might try using Yugma on my Mac desktop (I actually haven’t tried that yet – I don’t know whether it’s supported,) because the interface on Yugma is clean and nice, and it seems bug free. Is there an audience out there?

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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 would like to respond in three parts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). One already exists that needs support and development to make it ready to compete with the big guys. eTapestry as a separate choice is bound to go away. Blackbaud is publicly traded. 5 Jon Biedermann 08.09.07

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