Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Specify Story, not details

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An example from an events management application: The organization should be able to create several different kinds of events, and determine for each kind of event which detailed information will be taken. Those events can be displayed in a list or calendar format. Users can register for events, and pay using a credit card.

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Specify Story, not details

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An example from an events management application: The organization should be able to create several different kinds of events, and determine for each kind of event which detailed information will be taken. Those events can be displayed in a list or calendar format. Users can register for events, and pay using a credit card.

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WeAreMedia Project

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. Thus, you can use Palbee for small group video meetings but also, you can use it for presentation, teaching, or any other information delivery. I think instructor’s video with whiteboard format is a good format for knowledge sharing. One last thing.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

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The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it?

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Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From my perspective, there are four elements to a technology support process with this as a model: Assessment – where is the client – both in terms of technology knowledge, as well as in terms of what they need at the moment?

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