Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. to develop open source software. at 2:40 pm That’s sad.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows. In the very early days of AI at Candid, our grants auto-coding system, which predicts Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) codes from the text, exhibited signs of social biases. What can bias look like in the data?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! The thrill of solving problems, of figuring something out, and bringing that understanding into the service of humanity. To the greatest extent possible, be open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 2, 2011

I’ve been a user of a ton of operating systems over time. Although I have only seen the Blue Screen of Death once in my year of Windows 7 use, there are still inexplicable slow-downs, crashes, and weird problems. The only good news I can see is that the operating system is getting less and less relevant. Internet Explorer.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Comparing both platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Why Food Insecurity in the U.S.? and supporting small farmers in remote areas globally.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This annual event brings together representatives from nonprofits and technology companies around the world to address the biggest problems facing humanity and the planet. Our system was done from scratch, and we are able at last to accept all kinds of donations.”. Making the World Better, Together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Let’s stop for a while throwing new websites at problems, and think more deeply about why those problems exist. Throw a website at it! at 11:51 am Sadly, you’re right.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

When it comes to choosing a Content Management System to build and manage your website, the choices available might seem a little daunting, especially to a novice just trying to get their feet wet. An Open Book. And that same community is constantly on guard for security flaws, viruses with component parts etc. Money Talks.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. Invest in Open Source. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money. ” However, too much of a good thing, even microsites can become a problem.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. He explains, however, why despite the increased amount of data that's available, problems with measuring social progress persist. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

But beyond the exciting new gadget and gizmos being folded in through regular updates, there are more crucial reasons to keep your programs and devices current: when an app, plugin or other program is created, it’s inevitable that there will be problems with performance, connectivity and, most importantly, with security.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production). The screen shot opens in 1/1000th of the time or less.” Conclusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. First problem: Linux address books … suck.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I don’t implement much for them (although in a pinch, I’ll set something up, or fix a specific problem.) For one client, I am their technology go-to person, since they are really small, and have no tech staff. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# After spending close to five hours on the X windows/driver problem I vented about last week. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. 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.) When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

But I have to admit that this seems to me a bit too much like a gateway drug - get them hooked on free, then move them slowly but surely to much more expensive systems. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

To alleviate this problem you can display thumbnails in a grid layout that improves the user experience. It allows you to set a limit on the number of failed attempts a user can make before they’re locked out of the system completely. This looks unattractive and requires people to scroll around to see them all.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I also ran into a weird problem with a daemon called “avahi-daemon&# which is basically the Linux implementation of “Bonjour&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? Be Helpful.

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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. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

There are multiple threads on multiple sites about problems with the iPhone 3G – clearly, some software fixes need to happen, and the faster they happen, the happier I’ll be. But getting them onto the iPhone, or getting them to work, is sometimes a pain. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. app or even know it’s there?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. Switching to the open-source driver ‘nv’ immediately solved the problem!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet. Be Helpful.

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