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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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 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. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent. Be Helpful.

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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. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Be Helpful.

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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. I think, actually, the problem is more about the nvidia drivers, but xrandr is very good to know about. Switching to the open-source driver ‘nv’ immediately solved the problem!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. The problem with Google Code is that it’s *explicitly* for small projects.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Well, pro bono consulting can happen entirely on digital platforms. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. With pro bono support, you can diagnose a problem and scope the solution in a way that actually gets to the root of the challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

The major problem I found with ActiveCollab wasn’t open source vs. not but the fact that it wasn’t getting updated very often. I’ll be moving from activeCollab to ProjectPier soon. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07 at 2:40 pm That’s sad. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

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. { 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. 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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. So I’m stuck where I don’t want to be (where lots of nonprofits are) with a data integration problem that I can’t solve right now, and likely won’t get solved for years. For some things, there are lots of relatively decent choices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points. Perhaps we’re beyond that – but I’m not sure – especially for a large number of nonprofits who haven’t yet delved much into open source waters. Be Helpful.

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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. Verizon sales folk promise the moon, the tech guys explained I’m at the far end of dsl access. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

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. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone. It’s all about fear, really. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

First problem: Linux address books … suck. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It was great. I hate to be so blunt, but it is true, at least in comparison to the ones on the Mac. There are basically three options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. There’s no reason that OpenOffice Calc *couldn’t* take the lead and go past Excel, especially with the socialized functionality I was talking about. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

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. Just like how search engines allow you to quickly find anything you want, future technologies will help you easily connect with friends from anywhere. 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I also ran into a weird problem with a daemon called “avahi-daemon&# which is basically the Linux implementation of “Bonjour&#. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) So I had to dig out of my memory (and do some online looking) about iwconfig. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. For consultants, networks expertise is an addition to standard skills.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

So, can you solve my to do list problem? :-) And I’m grabbing the sunscreen already! That’s the only way I opted in setting up a magnolia account. 2 Michelle Murrain 11.30.06 at 7:40 pm Thank you Beth! That is so cool. too bad they don’t have stumbleupon included. But I’m not so sold on stumbleupon anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?) I like the interface better, and the social part of the bookmarking is actually a lot better done (they have groups, as well as contacts.) But some comments on the whole phenomenon. Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. Getting Prepared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. The other potential problem for some users is that the free version limits the number of web-conference participants to 3. Have a great day, Tracey 2 admin 08.17.07 Wish I were! 3 Karel Lukas 08.17.07 at 3:02 pm Michelle, Thanks for checking out Yugma. it’s easy to set up.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Today he runs his own consulting company, Adapt ∞ Impact , which serves the nonprofit community exclusively. In 2008, SDFF received a grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund, which enabled SDFF to fully develop their digital divide program and expand the number of families they could reach. more than 20 years.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM.

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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 The buzzwords have changed and the technology has gotten more sophisticated – but the problems many nonprofits are facing are exactly the same.

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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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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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. Is there any company in high tech that is more clearly against charities and philanthropy? Compared to most other tech companies they're practically invisible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So you’d still have the same problem. And, you can run any windows software you want on it, at either native speed, or a bit slower in emulation. But you’d still have to buy Windows. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. Some think that Microsoft is abandoning power users.) Be Helpful.

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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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