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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. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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JULY 25, 2008

It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Read an interview of an Android developer. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07 at 2:39 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.19.07

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AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.

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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. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. A large chunk (the majority?)

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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APRIL 13, 2009

Join hosts, John Haydon , social media coach for nonprofits, and blogger and internet marketing consultant, Chris Garrett , as they demonstrate how to get started with social media and the value this can bring your organization. Have any questions? billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. About TechSoup.org.

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MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies. I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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OCTOBER 24, 2007

at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes. [poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 at 7:21 pm What did you get out of this survey? 2 admin 11.10.07

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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. {

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I hope that in the process of doing projects for clients, I am able to ask those deep questions, and help them ask “why&# much more often. Lots of “whats&# and “hows,&# but not enough “why’s&# You were probably one of those “annoying&# little girls who asked a lot of questions, weren’t you?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

I didn’t ask this question too often (it would just depress me.) But as I re-enter this field I love, I can’t help but think about this question again. Ehtan Zuckerman blogged this week on Nancy Hafkin Gender and IT about disparity in access to the Internet of women and girls. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

No question about that. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 What does this mean for the nonprofit sector?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation. Check out the forums of email list archives of that project. How busy is it? Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ). When was the last release?

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

at 1:24 am What was it, the question mark? But it’s a very good sign that people seem satisfied with the open source tools available for one of the core functions of nonprofit organizations. { 3 trackbacks } Product Blogs » Blog Archive » CiviCRM comes out on top in NTEN Survey 12.14.07

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AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX. I still own a Mac mini, which I expect will be my last Macintosh, and I won’t be upgrading that Mac mini to Leopard. Those of you who are loyal Mac users are gasping.

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MARCH 19, 2007

But how to stop that kind of thinking on an organizational level is the question. What organizational things can be done to challenge it and change the thought patterns? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. But my question is more than just exigency. It’s asking the questions of what happens when nonprofits incorporate what might be considered the wrong metaphors? And precisely (!)

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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. There is no question that you will get out of twitter what you give.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

There is no question that the social networking space is evolving. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

The question on my mind is: Is the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS fundraising and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

These are the questions on my mind, and as I think more, and learn more, I’ll write more here. at 6:50 pm Dear Michelle: Thanks for raising these questions. How do I talk about these issues in a way that people from all perspectives and traditions can appreciate, from completely athiestic, to deeply religious?

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MARCH 2, 2007

What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. 3) Deborah Finn’s Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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APRIL 15, 2007

I keep a little tech support blog on Mayfirst[0] and I’m always game to answer questions like. Meanwhile, PoppyPhoto is right, there does need to be a lot more “what are these content types&# writing, at least about Drupal (I dunno what is out there for Joomla).

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APRIL 3, 2009

Two (yes, just two) questions out of many relate to security. You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. That’s just the context. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Deanna Zandt , Media Technologist, Consultant, and Author of the forthcoming book: Share This! The Internet is not an ATM. Andrew spoke about the huge access the Internet offers — citing stats from how the presidential candidates used social media in the 2008 election. Andrew Rasiej , Founder of Personal Democracy Forum.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? All of these are good questions, and will be totally different for different organizations. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? First, I’ll do a quickie review of the social bookmarking phenomena and why I’ve been using del.icio.us, and why I’m switching to Ma.gnolia. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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