Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.) No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Ada Initiative is a nonprofit organization that works to support women in open culture (open source software, open standards, open content, etc.) Really great stuff. They have a new census that they are encouraging people to take. So please take it , and spread the word.

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Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support. Really a lot.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. Now we could easily translate that into “managing and nurturing an organizations’ interactions with donors and constituents.&#

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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, ultimately there is a great open source database alternative called PostgreSQL, but support for it is not universal. However, the future of ongoing support and development for MySQL is certainly in question.

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I’m not changing the world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been working with nonprofit organizations on technology issues (strategy, implementation) for about 15 years now. Plenty of conservative organizations use Drupal, Salesforce, online fundraising, Facebook and Twitter – using those technologies to push for ends that I am far from interested in seeing come to reality.

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. If a nonprofit organization has a server, it’s actually not so unlikely that it is running RHEL. They started out with their S3 – simple storage service.

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