Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM! 3. Build your own technical competency.

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Award-winning journalist of “Lonely at the Top,” a memoir of her father, Reginald Lewis, the first African-American to build a billion-dollar business . Responsible for a team of over 300 focused on building out diverse revenue portfolios and driving improved health outcomes for mothers and babies . Lewis Foundation. Dale Bannon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The developers of each project have completely different sets of assumptions about what the right way to do things is, and completely different philosophies and ethos when it comes to building interfaces and functionality. They need a stack that makes it very hard to make the most common mistakes. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first. Set realistic expectations and objectives for pilots, focus on learning and engagement. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the tiny science center, I got to do everything from leading programs to building exhibits to managing volunteers to cleaning snot off of plexiglass. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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NOVEMBER 12, 2007

… Because of these factors, groups that attempt to use their internal, benefit-dinner videos for an online audience will find their efforts largely ignored, says Michael Hoffman , president of See3 Communications Company, a Chicago consulting group that helps charities produce online video campaigns. Feed verfolgen.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

… Because of these factors, groups that attempt to use their internal, benefit-dinner videos for an online audience will find their efforts largely ignored, says Michael Hoffman , president of See3 Communications Company, a Chicago consulting group that helps charities produce online video campaigns. Feed verfolgen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. The recommendations in the report call for more institutionalized capacity building programs around Web2.0. 2007: What does it mean to my business? t know who can translate these things for our needs.??? t feel qualified.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It wasn't that Simon was throwing out the housekeeping rules of the gorgeous but often imposing downtown museum building. Up until she accepted the position to remake the MAH, she was a consultant for museums all over the world, and one of the industry's most prominent outside-the-gallery thinkers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We’re hoping to find out how the nature of civic engagement and mobilization is changing – along with the business models needed to support this kind of work. All of which brings me to MomsRising.org – perhaps one of the most compelling “new” models for issue-organizing. Our hypothesis is that new technologies such as Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Also announced 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation. You can’t tell it, I need a join here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

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. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support. 2 cheryl 04.26.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

It’s also the time for web developers to let their babies go, and start building their business on a well-developed CMS. It’s also the time for web developers to let their babies go, and start building their business on a well-developed CMS. We’ve been on one of the custom CMSs that you write about in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Their focus must shift from building new tools and waging higher-profile campaigns to understanding what motivates action and how to support groups in their work. Introduction : Organizations need to find ways to put issues in front of their target audience – to generate interest, prompt curiosity, and begin to build awareness.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I wanted to build a bigger professional network, and this felt like a safe (and nerdy) way to start. Asking me if I could consult. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. I never experimented here with models for collective writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform. That all changed after the massive and devastating raids in New Bedford, MA in early 2007. What is your job at Firm ?

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