Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

We’d love to get more women involved in nonprofit open source – women from the nptech world who might not be thinking a lot about open source, and women from the open source community who might not be thinking a lot about nonprofit organizations. Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. Technorati Tag: nptech

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 I’m sorry I missed that session!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Using Red Hat, as I often do sometimes, feels like doing battle in comparison. Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. If you are not using an RSS Reader, pick one and learn how to use it like a rock star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I think it needs some updating, but it’s actually still pretty relevant. That’s a good thing. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) I think it would be very great to have a few nptech-focused “planets&# out there. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. It’s a great idea, I think.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2005

A while back, I was searching for RSS feeds and David Geilhufe shared his bloglines feeds with me and suggested others do the same, using the nptech tag. I've also bookmarked them with nptech + bloglines tags in del.icio.us. Technorati Tags: nptech Any others out there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

So maybe, we can get some Linuxchix to get involved in the nptech community, and we can get some nptech women who might be a little shy getting their toes wet with technology installing linux and writing code, with Linuxchix support, and have some nice synergy. at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Jon Stahl at ONE/Northwest posts a little teaser on some experiments they're doing to integrate the use of new techniques and tools like Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc into their work flow. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , effectiveness , npo , ngo , workingsmart I'll be curious to read more of these experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 But then I had to think about it. What is it about Twitter that seems so, well, besides the point? Wanna know what I’m doing? Check my Skype status.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 Some software, like Firefox, is like that kitten that is easy – it learns to be litter trained once, and just sits on your lap (or in its little bed) in a ball and sleeps, and plays only when you want it to.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.) Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 went into other software and data needs of organizations, I daresay they might not be in as much of a pickle as they are in terms of making choices about vertical apps. I can’t agree with you more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07 Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. We’ll see… Anyway, if you’ll be at NTC, come by and see where I got to. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 Even though this very-big-nonprofit was rolling in money, they thought the pie was finite, and that if the money didn’t go through them, they’d get less. It’s very widespread.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Technorati Tags: nptech , books , wiki So let's do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2005

Technorati Tags: blogher , nptech , net2 , webjustice2.0 , femalenerd " Maybe we need to email Robert x.Cringley and suggest some other female nerds to be interviewed? Certainly there are lots of to choose from in the Blogher Speaker Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Technorati Tags: linux , nptech , opensource , windows , ubuntu { 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands: Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith 05.22.07 We’ll see how that works once I am able to download some of the good wireless GUI tools out there (like NetworkManager, which I hear is good.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. Tags: social media research snippets twitter. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. My grade is 100 which means that my account scores higher than 100.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Also we've been using podcasts with some success on mnartists.org just by making and "audio only" feed in our existing RSS implementation. We implemented the same RSS/podcast feeds for individual artists on mnartists.org but have had a very limited adoption of that so far. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Nonprofit technology take home lesson : MySQL is certainly the leader – it’s most commonly thought of as the “M&# in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), which is a nptech web mainstay. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Nonprofit technology take home lesson : MySQL is certainly the leader – it’s most commonly thought of as the “M&# in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), which is a nptech web mainstay. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

When you want to use tags to organize and find stuff in your freezer. You burn the soup because you were multi-tasking in the kitchen - cooking and reading your RSS reader. Technorati Tags: ContinuousComputing nptech When you think every t-shirt logo/slogan is about software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It was really hard to try and write new applications building on a framework I’d written a while ago, while simultaneously improving that framework, and keeping up with new things such as Ajax and RSS, mostly by myself. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

The organization's web site welcome page there is an RSS feed of headlines from the blog. Technorati Tag: nptech. I found Jeffrey Veen's blog under his photo with " Visit Jeff's Personal Site " ForumOne - The blog is a collaborative blog with its own url. What metrics are appropriate ones to follow on a weblog?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting. RSS for Nonprofits. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit, We're also looking at the whole of which blogging is a part. Weblogs and the Nonprofit Sector. Ready to Start Blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. Technorati Tags: nptech. At any given time there are several thousand distinct sources or channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. " Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site.

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