Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { Now, there is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. A great many people in my Mentor Program consult with non-profits. I’ll have to look for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. Xen comes to mind. It’s designed as a basecamp clone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage. In my country, there still are no good hosting companies, though our internet speed and ping inside the whole country, is better than the most of europe, that’s why I use e-insites. 2 Brian 11.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What was it, the question mark? Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. .&# But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And I know that many nonprofits use software designed for corporations and for-profit entities, such as Quickbooks (although I know there is the NonProfit Books variant.) As you well know, one of the things that has been one of the most important to me is the availability of good software for nonprofits that’s built for them in mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

So just to say really, that we should be mindful that as well as the biggies out there that we all know about, we should promote and participate in other great FOSS CMS that are futureproofed and adaptable for the nptech world too! (If

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. Non-Profit Tech Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Because the comments, in my mind, were criticizing it for not covering something that was a different topic. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

There are some really great men who hang out too, who don’t mind being around a bunch of geeky women. This community has been around for a while, and its full of women who know their way around a linux kernel (some of them even get paid to hack it,) and can answer just about any question on Apache mod_rewrite I can come up with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. When people sense that you are working for a good cause without the goal of making a profit, they come forward and help. Since we started as a nonprofit, lots of groups (some nonprofit, some for profit) have approached us with ideas, projects, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Keep in mind that in order to recruit diverse staff, human resources must scout in diverse places.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Although the ‘double bottom line’ — profit and social value — have long been recognized, there are now new ways of looking at this question, encompassed in new terms: social, core, and monetary economies. It encompasses the income sources that drive our society: profit, government, philanthropy, earned income. 5] Ibid.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. { 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 18, 2007

The 2007 Non-Profit Technology Conference is coming to my town! Here's what the organizers have in mind: Microformats Are the New Tags But are they a flash in the tech pan, or are they here to last? Yup, it's April 4-6 in Washington, D.C. and I've been asked to host a session on Microformats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Deadline is March 2n.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when it comes to dealing with your social capital. On Facebook: According to Non Profit Social Network Survey , 80% of respondents have a staff person dedicating 25% of their time to social media. Authenticity.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? Karen Taggart is Director of Non-Profit Services at Care2 and is on the eternal quest for the perfectly integrated online/offline fundraising database.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Note: This study used statistics from 2007 to 2016 to show the sector’s performance during and immediately after the recession, and also because this was the most recent year that data was available. As you read, keep in mind that some data may have changed, and continue to do research as new studies are released! Resiliency.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

So you can see that if we are to "begin with the end in mind" (as I advised in the first post), we need to let the reports dictate the construction of the chart of accounts - not the reverse. If the filter is too summarized, the reports will be too summarized. If the filter is too detailed, the reports will be too detailed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 14, 2006

It isn't likely to change soon: The beta of Microsoft Outlook 2007 sticks with these conventions. I've commented before on the problem of building truly organizational knowledge to minimize the impact of individual staff departures from your non-profit. I've got an application in mind for it already!

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? Karen Taggart is Director of Non-Profit Services at Care2 and is on the eternal quest for the perfectly integrated online/offline fundraising database.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

At Classy, we believe that a company will find its greatest success by marrying purpose and profit. From B Corps to companies with robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, for-profit organizations are increasingly motivated to align with relevant causes and social good programs. Companies are no longer content to do well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog blogged about his announcement on the NY 501C Tech Club List to create a closed forum for frank discussion of vendors and to share experiences about their experience with IT vendors. I believe Allen and I are in the same wavelength with this and willing to make that happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

This is where I can see great merit in Jim Spadaccini and others work with smaller museums and non-profits, choosing to harness already existing, and already ???sticky??? You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? stickiness???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. Fast forward to today.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I am the one who, with the interests of the sustainability of my own small organization in mind, refused. In my experience, for-profit business people simply don’t.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

Here’s the first one with many more coming in the future… 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica , a social enterprise that provides superior communication consulting, training, and strategy to help mindful organizations affect social change. region for more than 17 years.

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