Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green.

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JUNE 11, 2008

Check out the book club , reading Media Rules! Check out the new images and videos of Android , the open source phone. NTEN keeps surprising me with cool stuff for nonprofit tech peeps. And I’m on the board! Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience , by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. The next step was to get online. That’s the first snag.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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JULY 15, 2011

What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? It all begins with a goal: what do you want to accomplish using social media? Taking that thought a bit further, think about how using social media on your site will accomplish those goals. Open source. Open Source – API.

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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. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { So first, what is data portability? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. Switching to the open-source driver ‘nv’ immediately solved the problem!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. So this is definitely a tool to watch. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. These things are far from the fault of Linux. 8 Pete 06.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. There's still time to catch this opening happening tommorrow, January 10th: European Young Professionals (EYP) To Launch 2007 London Chapter Simultaneously.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members Open Source. David wrote this response.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. It could be argued that iTunes made podcasting mainstream. But without a doubt, YouTube made vlogging, and mass video creation mainstream. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. and Social Media trends. open source. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). September 2007 (14).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Keynote welcome.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Open fundamentally changes the way we approach everything we do. That said, there are three pillars to Open: Convio APIs: develop custom applications to interact with your Convio data Convio Extensions: engage social media outlets like Facebook and get your message where your constituents want to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Scarcity Thinking Michele Martin's recent conversation starter, " Is the Scarcity Mentality the Biggest Barrier to Social Media in Nonprofits ?" social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Social Housing explores social media.

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APRIL 13, 2007

NTC 2007 Pipe. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He came back an evangelist for social media. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

is doing a great job at bringing people together in ways that are new for this newish media called the internet. I do think the jury is still out, and I think that using language which raises expectations about any one single new technology (like Web 2.0) is not a good idea. Yes, let’s talk about how Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. The project will morph in to something called Brigade , a project of Brigade Media , which is a consortium led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Sean Parker, who founded Napster and mentored Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2006

It makes nonmarket strategies – from individual hobbyists to formal, well-funded nonprofits – vastly more effective than they could be in the mass-media environment." Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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