Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. That would be me!

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JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. There are many ways to “get social,” and so many reasons for doing so. Raise funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. But some comments on the whole phenomenon.

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JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that. Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# 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 .&# That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

at 6:32 pm Mistakes non-profits make with Web sites « No newsprint here 08.04.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 at 6:32 pm Mistakes non-profits make with Web sites « No newsprint here 08.04.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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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. OpenSocial means, basically, they can port to a whole lot fewer of them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. Letting people know Changing the DNS of the old site (and changing the site on wordpress.) copied over.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

But, a very nice soul at MayFirst/people-link, where we house the NOSI site, set up Limesurvey for us, so we’re using that. I had originally done the survey in Surveymonkey , which is a slick on-line survey tool. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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MAY 19, 2008

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Online Courses November 6, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about giving online courses in the use of open source software.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. Keep up the good work!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. 2 admin 08.08.07 3 KJ 08.09.07 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But for much larger/high-traffic sites, or sites that fluctuate a lot, it might be a great idea, especially if you want dedicated hosting. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 And now, there is E2 – Elastic Compute Cloud – use only the storage, processing power and bandwidth you use.

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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.

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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 old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. 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!! 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Photo by Dwinton. Are they tips?

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. at 11:45 am It’s my social graph, darn it! at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 Walk right under it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0 stuff, I think it will take a while to figure out how nonprofits can use it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Thanks for a great site!! 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. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2007

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