Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. It’s not so up to date, and it’s a list more of tools I have used, and some I still use.).

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My Tools: Writing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m mostly doing this last post on my tools to pimp Scrivener. I was a loyal Scrivener user on my Mac for years, and then when I moved to Windows last year, I mourned my loss terribly. Then someone started to work on S crivener for Windows and Linux. Almost enough to make a grown woman cry.

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My Tools: Development

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My other core tool is a console window. Other core tools are git for version control and github for code sharing. I use Opera on occasion, and, of course, I use IE only when I absolutely have to (and it generally means rebooting into Windows, which I do less and less these days.). In Linux, I use the generic version.

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Newly discovered project management tool: Redmine

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Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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Newly discovered project management tool: Redmine

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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My tool is better than your tool…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been fulfilling a definitely different role with nonprofit organizations than most times in the past. For some projects, there is no question that one tool may be better than another. I’ve been an intermediary, rather than an implementor. And some things surprise me.

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Tools I use: Personal Web Presence

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Dokuwiki is a very cool tool. They give free accounts to nonprofits. My main personal site will be migrated to Drupal 7 soonish. My main sci-fi author site is already on Drupal. Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It makes it quicker, and also much more easily migratable.

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