Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. I am so envious of people with graphics skills who can do that well. Be Helpful. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2008

I also have to admit that my gut tells me that in the coming economic landscape, going back to using my coding skills will likely increase my chance of keeping myself in iPhones, BeagleBoards , and microbrews, as well as the more necessary, but boring things like keeping a roof over my head. So PHP it is, starting with Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS. So I’m polishing off my PHP skills, and we’ll see where that leads. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. Be Helpful. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’m not leaving nonprofit technology, though, just this particular role – I expect to stay involved, keep connected, keep prodding and poking, and keep learning. Being an independent consultant was, for me, a way to feel like I was using my skills for the greater good. Be Helpful. And, I think I did that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be. Be Helpful.

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