Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 19, 2009

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? How do you keep up? How bleeding edge do we need to be? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I remember we talked about planning to replace 1/4 to 1/3 of the hardware in an organization each year. And, parenthetically, although it’s not really about the environment, check out this information about Coltan , a necessary ingredient in many electronics, including mobile phones.). The logic behind this is very hard to fault.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

For example, HiV Aids rapid information and testing services built on mobiles, climate and poluution monitoring applications, mobile information services that provide consumers with point-of-purchase environmental or other information services about products, mobile human rights monitoring applications, mobile social and organizing networks for trafficking (..)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data. But that’s not the point of this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. 3) keep stakeholders informed?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

And, you will get the occasional promo post about something the organizations that I am on the boards of (Aspiration and NTEN) are doing. I still will like to throw in the occasional post about Web 2.0, particularly as it relates to moving data around. And you’ll always get a bit of shiny from me.

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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. at 4:21 pm We would love it if you’d add us (Home Free Organization) to your blogroll…we will do the same…thanks! 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09 3 homefreeorg 11.06.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? at 12:14 am I’m curious about how organizations can use Twitter. Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It will be given under the auspices of Linuxchix , an organization I’ve been a part of since 2000. Check out our Moodle page for more details (the outline, and information on how to participate is there.) The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) at 2:34 pm @Lobo: exactly!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And as time wore on, I lost touch with people and organizations. I wanted to work directly with organizations and people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Note: These rates are not for nonprofit organizations – they are the standard rates. Some organizations who were not already members of NCNA have even joined their State Associations in order to gain access to these rates. Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. Have a great day, Tracey 2 admin 08.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The organization is happy for a while, they have a website with pages they can easily edit using a web form, which is more than they had before. How is an organization supposed to know how to make an informed choice about a website platform? I mean average, normal features of most nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

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. 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. Most importantly, I have staff to pay.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

There will be some much more detailed information that will help make it easier to figure out if it is right for you. { There will be some much more detailed information that will help make it easier to figure out if it is right for you. { I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Elluminate Live!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

" There is no question that technology in general has created sea changes in the ways in which organizations get and use information, reach donors and constituents, create campaigns, etc. I think there is enough concencus now on that issue. The technology should only be a conduit or medium for disseminating their message.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

A lot of it has been because I have lately been exposed to situations where I have felt organizations haven’t gotten the support they need, which, in our world, I think is all too common. In the past, for me, my ongoing support relationships with clients have been the way that I have learned the most about their organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

What happened to our school system that an organization is formed to provide a place for thousands (yes, thousands ) of projects for school kids? We use that information only to connect TimeBridge to Google. Microscopes? So they can learn. But, anyway, if you want a good cause, this is one.

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