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JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

I spent lots of time reading the reviews (many of which were BAD), but we decided to plunk down the dough (lots of it) and go for it. They did have some really bad reviews on dslreports.com , but the other folks, WildBlue , weren’t installing anything in our area. Anyway, it just got to be too much. We got Hughesnet.

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Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. In much of the world, mobile phone networks are the only thing that connects cities and countries to the rest of the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). Trying to be both a booster and a responsible reviewer is a very hard path to tread. One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. 2 admin 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

One of the prompts for this post was also that I’m preparing a post on “cloud computing&# , just reviewing what it means, and what it is, and why it’s important – and that will undoubtedly help me to keep up with that whole set of things. How do you keep up?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. at 7:02 am Hi Michelle–I’ve read the first two book and agree with both of your reviews.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. More on that in a bit. Naturally, you’re now expected to say why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) But there still isn’t a lot out there. I had not heard of it until then. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). hardware, network, application server…). Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!) Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). hardware, network, application server…). Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!) Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. First, I’ll do a quickie review of the social bookmarking phenomena and why I’ve been using del.icio.us, and why I’m switching to Ma.gnolia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Interesting post, thanks for clarifying our list rates vs. NP rates. The TurboMeeting appliance plugs into your network — you own and control it. at 11:06 am I would have liked to see how you feel Proxy Networks’ offerings stacks up against these other products. at 4:44 pm Michelle- Shawn Murry from ReadyTalk here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

To me, it’s more akin to personnel performance reviews. One could argue that a board’s performance review of its executive director is an indication of organizational performance, but you don’t see that kind of internal data shared (I know that’s a legal issue, but it’s the same kind of data in my mind.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. But then I looked deeper.

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