Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

But I think the larger question about folksonomies is important: is efficiency all there is, and in what ways are folksonomies a way for the “folks&# (rather than “experts&# ) to have access to the process of categorizing their own content, and content they care about? What do those guidelines look like?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. First, there’s the blogging issue. It’s just so … painful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? And NOWHERE have I been able to find a good, basic, user-oriented “what are these content types and what do I do with them?&# sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. would all be free (libre).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. ” Gateway brought in a consultant for a branding project. The consultant worked with numerous stakeholders at Gateway, interviewing staff and volunteers as well as educators and other contacts in the community. “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing. What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate? 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. I was looking for ways to be accessible to our constituents, grow our audience, and virally promote our content, so Twitter seemed like the way to go. At Wellstone Action, its a running gag in our trainings that we say "Lawn signs dont vote!",

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Are you proud of your website and able to keep fresh, interesting content flowing that matches your stakeholders interests? These goals should guide what your priorities are, what content and functionality you will provide online. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news. If not, you have work to do.

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MAY 17, 2007

Amy Gahran - a conversational media consultant, content strategist, and freelance writer/editor - showed us some really cool sites about the exciting, ever-developing world of citizen journalism that we wanted to share with you, our Frog Loop readers. We are glad people enjoyed the training. I think it went really well!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

What content does the best? Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. Other metrics we look at include: What are our sign-ups for our newsletter? How many people sign up for which webinars?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. Catherine 4 Beth Kanter 04.13.07

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. Freedomtrain - an exhibition about the history of liberation in 20th century Netherlands that was housed entirely inside a train that traveled the country throughout the spring of 2010.

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MAY 29, 2007

Amy Gahran - a conversational media consultant, content strategist, and freelance writer/editor - showed us some really cool sites about the exciting, ever-developing world of citizen journalism that we wanted to share with you, our Frog Loop readers. We are glad people enjoyed the training. I think it went really well!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. Olivia Mitchell 's guest post on Pistachio Consulting offers some good tips: 1. One of the reflections. It’s like a new set of antennae."

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable. Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? at 5:32 am How do we make great new content if it always needs to be free? But then I looked deeper.

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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. All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

February 18, 2008 This is a rant. Best and easiest out of box *content management* system out there. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology No more custom CMS! And it is a rant on behalf of the hundreds (thousands?) 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. Instead, they will have to rely on consultants, or unfortunately volunteers. David Zeidman 3 Jim Barney 08.07.07 at 9:24 am Excellent summary. Click & Pledge will soon be launching a new version of its SaaS for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I was pretty doubtful about the general usefulness of content-less social networking sites (as distinct from those that are content-driven, like flickr and del.icio.us ) but it seems that Facebook is becoming a platform, and has ceased to become simply a social networking site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? 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

JANUARY 26, 2009

Other modules include synchronizing CiviCRM member (CiviMembers) to Drupal Roles (so you can permission content on your web site if needed) and synchronizing with organic groups (used by Democrats abroad very effectively in the last election cycle) 3.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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