Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I did the research for the original report released a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while since I’ve come back to comparing these two platforms. Also, this is primarily going to be from the developers point of view, although I’ll talk some about user interface and experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. Those first three elements make up the communication arm of my practice. The other arm is learning. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

And, of course, I’m at least a year behind the curve on this – there has been a lot going on in this space, although, frankly, in my research so far, I haven’t found a lot in the technology sphere that would immediately be helpful to nonprofits (especially small to medium-sized ones.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. Read an interview of an Android developer. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. More on that in a later post. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They’ve been doing some nonprofit research. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it. Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

MovableType is written in Perl, which I hadn’t realized until I was doing research for this blog entry. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out – both are incredibly strong applications. But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

In doing a bit more research (which I guess I hadn’ t done this summer) it turns out that Webex seems to allow desktop sharing with Linux. I’m hoping to test it out soon, as well. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

So, I did some research, and realized that the best choice for me was to get a Thinkpad – most everything works right out of the box. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

As a web dev, and one into usability, accessibility and web standards, I did alot of research into which CMS were the best for my needs and my clients, and now favour Modx, sNews (and Xoops) as platforms that often get rarely mentioned, but do feel they do need raising awareness of. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

There are a few others ( see list here ,) but they are either research-focused (like Ingres ,) developed very little, or have small user bases, and seem not relevant to nonprofit technology. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

There are a few others ( see list here ,) but they are either research-focused (like Ingres ,) developed very little, or have small user bases, and seem not relevant to nonprofit technology. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Charlie is from Mission Research, which also provides a CRM/Fundraising product, and his question is a good one – what do I want CRM vendors to be? The more good, and reasonably priced (which Mission Research’s offering is) packages that are out there, the better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Doing research on different CMS projects might help you figure out what one might work for you. 2 admin 02.20.08 at 8:40 am It is certainly possible to migrate any website to a CMS like Drupal. The question is how easy it will be. To make it easiest, you’ll need the help of the current CMS vendor. 3 Javier Barreira 02.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

They say: Published research results and ideas are the foundation for future progress in science and medicine. I would love nothing more (and I know that Michael’s with me all the way) to find a way to do things differently – to be able to create well researched, thought out, and edited content and provide free access for all.

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