Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available.

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I’m not changing the world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Conservative causes of all sorts have discovered the power of the kinds of technologies I’ve been helping nonprofits with, and are au courant. I remember also, from those heady days, the idea that we could help nonprofits be more effective by encouraging them to be more proactive around replacing their hardware.

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Open Doors

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

My body can't help but align itself to the energy of the land, since the land here is largely unmasked, mostly uncovered from the human surfacing of concrete, asphalt, metal and hewn wood. It's as though my body remembers what it is, and can't help but be aware of other bodies, other kinds of beings sharing this space. .

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Perhaps that is what most people judge the movie on. . You get to walk out of the film feeling OK about the whole thing because that plucky community decided to make their own way, rather than depend upon the outside help that is portrayed as sterile, impersonal, other (not that it isn''t, but I think you''re getting my drift.)

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Open Doors

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

My body can't help but align itself to the energy of the land, since the land here is largely unmasked, mostly uncovered from the human surfacing of concrete, asphalt, metal and hewn wood. It's as though my body remembers what it is, and can't help but be aware of other bodies, other kinds of beings sharing this space. .

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Does Social Media Work?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the most interesting tidbits of data to me was the large gap between people who “thought&# social media of varied types either helped them reach new audiences, or helped them raise money, and those that really “knew&# this was the case.

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You are running out of time

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The standard ways of keeping people in line, such as, well, letting them starve, or sending them to debtor's prison, weren't going to work in the post-Roosevelt era. So you had to came up with other ideas - among them pretending that people could actually get the things you had if they worked hard enough and played by the rules.

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