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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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Movable Type goes Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A ways back, Six Apart promised that it would open source MovableType , their flagship software product, and the software that underlies their TypePad service. This blog (and my personal blog ) were on TypePad for years, and I rather like the MoveableType interface and feature set. Yesterday, they finally released it.

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Welcome to the new blog!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! I’d recommend it to anyone. There are a few changes.

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Is this typepad? at 10:46 am It is not typepad. I’m totally sold, at this point – I think it’s better (and cheaper) than Typepad, and it’s free software. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 Did you switch platforms? I like it a lot. 2 admin 07.21.07

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2002, a nonprofit technology colleague introduced me to blogging and set up a blog on his server. Later, he introduced me to Typepad where I started Beth’s Blog in 2003. My blog started as my Trainer’s Learning Journal – a place to jot down practice and content related to building nonprofit technology capacity!

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

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Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. It’s definitely worth a listen. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS.