Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector.

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JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS.

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MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 21, 2007

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems. I know when a vendor knows their technology, and when they are blowing sales language at me, and might not be up to the technical task. OK, enough of that. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0

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APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

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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(?) website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." Throw a website at it! Be Helpful.

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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.) The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us There are some great tips in this Wired article. Be Helpful.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# coming out in October. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! I appreciate your patience as I know my ignorance was showing. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. That seems a little more elusive.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06 7 Todd Sieling 09.28.06 Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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JULY 15, 2011

Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization. Open source. Open Source – API. Seth joined with Michelle Perreault to establish Minds on Design Lab to pair his technology experience with her creative leadership in 2007.

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JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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APRIL 13, 2007

I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Kim Lowery also gives us a round up the sessions she attended as well as her Day of Service experience. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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MARCH 23, 2007

No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. with a detailed account of her organization's experience. Miles Maier has been blogging about his Web Office experiment for the past month or so. Are there other experiments going on? ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. 20 practices. A Couple of Really Good Wikis.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

The upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. Open allows nonprofits to capture more rich data such as constituents interactivity with the Website, not just their name and address. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. We will fill the void.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. can transform the teaching and learning experience. Elluminate Live!

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MAY 19, 2008

She then asked us to talk in pairs about our experience with online networking and asked people to share. Personal experience, to connect to younger groups. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Jenny had us do some speed networking at the beginning session.

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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. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. We experimented with it briefly two years ago when we first decided to publish a journal, but we couldn’t make it happen. Others aren’t at all. I’m really not sure.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tasty nuggets October 1, 2007 A few things have come across my desk while I was on vacation, so I thought I’d collect them here: Of course, there are new Web 2.0 tools that come out every single day.

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JULY 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More on Facebook July 17, 2007 Michelle Martin has a great post this week on Facebook. I’ve also noticed how most people in the nptech world who experiment with this stuff have moved over to Facebook.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. The feedback has been amazing.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) 2 Elin Waring 01.27.09 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. Well, Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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