Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. First problem: Linux address books … suck. Open source projects do get better. That’s open source, no? It was great.

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JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08

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MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

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. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. And, for the most part, I’ve been happy. &# 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. {

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08

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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 also ran into a weird problem with a daemon called “avahi-daemon&# which is basically the Linux implementation of “Bonjour&#.

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MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 03.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack. In general, it seems like most models depend on some sort of up-front funding, whether it be an investment or a grant, to fund the initial writing of a large amount of content. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. But, I was myopic anyway. That makes me happy.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 08.30.07 at 6:50 pm Michelle, I like how you differentiate between the mission of your blog and the mission of your work. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. 2 phil jones 04.19.07 More formatting options. 4 Amanda Bee 05.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. Technorati Tags: broadband , hughesnet , satellite { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Catherine Carey 03.06.07 But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor.

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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. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). 3 Beth 12.01.06

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { 4 Ade 12.18.07

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?) 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 at 3:43 pm Hey gang I’m the product manager for Ma.gnolia, so I appreciate the comments here.

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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? 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. 1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. This past year, U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

It drives me simply nuts that every single time I call my satellite provider about a problem with the service, and I’m saying “I’m seeing 80% packet loss, and doing a traceroute suggests that it’s about 2 hops after your modem&# and they respond with “OK, first, we’re going to clear out your browser cache.

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APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. is it a problem that can be solved in any other ways? Mitchell 04.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So you’d still have the same problem. 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.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Anonymous 10.25.06

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

It provides some insight on why our discarded electronic devices are a problem everywhere. The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. Heartbleed: What Everyone Needs To Know.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Regulations.gov and OpenRegulations : Regulations.gov is your one-stop website to find, view, and comment on Federal regulations and other Federal actions. The Open Planning Project : OpenPlans is the simple way to bring groups together, promote your cause, make plans, manage projects, and get things done. This is a great recap.

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