Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). It has three versions: Enterprise, Professional, and Community Edition. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 04.20.08 That’s the one I’ve been using. 2 admin 04.20.08

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When we pulled the numbers two weeks later, a small nonprofit community center called the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California had raised over $400,000, while the American Red Cross had raised $322,540. friends on social media of community members. Communicate regularly. Potential Impressions. <

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AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

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APRIL 14, 2008

They also have, at this point, no community. Here’s some other coverage: Podcast from the Nonprofit Tech Blog Post from Josiah Richie Video Interview of Randy McCabe { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matthew Edmondson 04.15.08 at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Gulka 05.30.08 at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users.

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MARCH 16, 2007

project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. comments??? Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE???

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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MAY 19, 2008

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. What do you think?

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MARCH 24, 2008

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you!

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JUNE 17, 2008

And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 06.19.08 Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. 4 admin 07.06.08

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin 08.08.07

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JANUARY 16, 2008

I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. I got some interesting comments (especially the one that said “the author doesn’t really seem to understand the distinction between free, open source, and proprietary software&# , which I thought was a hoot.) Comments? {

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. .&#

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07

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JULY 19, 2007

The fourth, and very interesting development, is the relationships that have been developing between nonprofit-focused technology providers of all stripes and open source developer communities (at this point, primarily CMS projects.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07

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MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. There will be penguins!!

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit How To’s @ This Week’s Carnival 09.26.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. I’m made comfortable by folks who speak what I think of as a good mix of development-speak and normal language. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06 I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. Check this out [link] Leave a Comment Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants coming here! 3 Michelle Murrain 10.31.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 I do disagree with you about the commercialization of the Joomla community, though. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5, which, I must say, rocks.

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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. Most nonprofits haven’t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07

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You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). gid=104492.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

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. They have mentorship programs, they are building regional networks, they have almost unparalleled bulletin board, email and IRC community support.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { 3 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/22 « i On Nonprofits 09.25.08 at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 10:40 am Twitter and Non-Profits-Are Baby Boomers Involved?

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