Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. (If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.

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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? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How are YOU doing , as someone who works with technology and/or the nonprofit sector, in terms of your job role, tech-adoption, and organizational challenges? of NTEN members feel that their membership helps them be more effective in their work, an increase of nearly 5% over 2008 responses. > Download the report (free).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. That means developers need only write an app once, and it can get used on any of the networks involved, like Orkut and LinkedIn. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. I hate to tell you this but commercial social networking entrepreneurs LOVE your attitude. It means lock-in that they don’t have to build. 2 admin 10.02.07 at 12:50 pm Well, I can imagine they might love my attitude right now.

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NTEN

JULY 27, 2011

Looking at these numbers from 2008-2010, we can see the proportion of respondents indicating that there is a separate department for IT has been decreasing, while the proportion of respondents who say there is "No one with official IT responsibility" within the organization is increasing. How does this compare to previous years?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Another very positive sign was that online giving in December 2009 grew 32% compared to December 2008. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. I’m an early adopter, I know – it’s easy to feel like everyone’s doing it, and maybe I should look into it. Or whatever. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008. Another very positive sign was that online giving in December 2009 grew 32% compared to December 2008. The analysis also looked at a subset of the same 1,703 nonprofits in 2008 and 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. If you don’t see the analogy to blogging or any adoption of social media, then you’re blind.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. Sixty-two percent of respondents felt that the board was ‘well informed” or “very well informed” of its responsibilities” as compared to 58% in 2010. Increased accountability and self-assessment. Sources: 1.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Here's a story Mac users might get a kick out of: while the rest of the world patiently awaits a definite release date for Office 2010 , there's been relatively little information from Microsoft about the suite's Mac sibling, Office 2011, aside from the announcement last August that Entourage will be replaced by a Mac version of Outlook.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. years at DoSomething.org, he oversaw the complete overhaul of the site (cms, architecture, skin, etc) in 2008, landing a People's Choice Webby Award in the Youth in 2009 and nomination in 2010. They demand an in-house tech team. During his 4.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al., Banks were not lending.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Doug Ulman. The sites attract millions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. The SXSW Interactive Festival. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Doug Ulman. The sites attract millions.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. Oh, and please do give a thumbs up to the panel Beth and I cooked up: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change ].

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But that’s a blog post for another day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. I also saw the conference with some different, post-seminary eyes. I was looking for the deeper purposes behind the implementation of technology. I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway? Is it all just TCO arguments?

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

The 2013 NTEN Award Winner Maddie Grant is a classic Gen-X early adopter of technology and lover of "shiny new toys". So thank you for being a vital part of the NTEN community. As we celebrate the NTEN award winner, we celebrate all of you. We''re big fans of Maddie and our community agrees! 13ntc Community nten awards'

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale. The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. Nicholas Felton has been obsessively collecting data about himself and publishing annual reports since 2005.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. And the first time that happened was in 2010, which is kind of a fun story. They learned to use them in high school.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. And the first time that happened was in 2010, which is kind of a fun story. They learned to use them in high school.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2008 study by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton and colleagues : Researchers found giving to anyone other than themselves lifted participants’ happiness more than self-spending, despite participants’ predictions to the contrary. Benefits come from serving and helping others in a conscious way. ” — Winston Churchill.

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