Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Tags: guest blogging nten social media socialmarketing storytelling. And he did it well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

It’s cross-platform (available on all platforms) and works really well (the old player was a bit buggy, but those have been really smoothed out, of late.) You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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APRIL 3, 2008

Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 3 trackbacks } Product Blogs » Blog Archive » CiviCRM comes out on top in NTEN Survey 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. I think so, but maybe I’m just nostalgic.&#

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID.

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JUNE 17, 2008

. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It is named, as of now, Aikido.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Thunderbird is cross platform, too, so if you’re like me, and hope between platforms, Thunderbird is there with you. I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

I think in some ways, this might decrease LinkedIn’s usefulness as a platform for fundraising or constituent-building by nonprofits (it has always seemed less viable for this than either Facebook or MySpace.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Did you switch platforms? I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). Is this typepad? I like it a lot. 2 admin 07.21.07 at 10:46 am It is not typepad.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

It is cross-platform and written in Java (and, I think, shows off the strength of the Java framework.) But that is great – if you know your stuff, you can get a lot of performance out of Azureus. Bittorrent is a bit of an arcane art (and, of course, getting a bit of a bad rep, since it’s the major avenue for P2P pirating.)

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MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) So, there is now one less nonprofit CRM vendor to choose from, and Blackbaud keeps getting bigger. But will it get better as a result? Hard to know. Will they continue in that direction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ". However, the platform offers some excellent social features. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. . $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. It is certainly better and more secure than IE.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) for writing one-page fact sheets.

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JULY 6, 2008

So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. I could think of several interesting implementations in the nptech world that would be fun (like it would make a great e-learning platform for, say, circuit riders, or folks like that.) One of which is called Elgg.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? However, the bounce rate on that one was well below average, so maybe not. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Image five: NTEN. Image six: Michael DeLong.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. Now things are getting interesting. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. We’ll be adding in our e-advocacy platform as a future step because we’ll need to change what platform we’re using as the GetActive platform we’re on now is going away.

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AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. This is very cool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. Are there any social networking platforms that are using open standards now? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. But I imagine that’s not necessarily true of everyone. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

And TJ Muehleman added a few points about integration that are music to any nonprofit’s ears: the level of integration we are seeing now between community platforms and organizationss databases is better than ever before! 1% of nonprofit community users are super users and contributors. 10-30% only participate at a low level.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.

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