Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history).

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

When I say total cost be sure youre getting not just the prices of the technology, but also any consulting or professional services youll need to include. Understand who owns the data. Make your potential vendor prove they are open to data imports and exports without having to purchase expensive additional APIs.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

The key to making sound, big decisions is to ground them in real-world, vetted, unprejudiced, unadulterated data. Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Thankfully, these other data-led investments have finally paid off for VolunteerMatch. Sometimes we've led trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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