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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. Pretty presentation with no content is useless. It feels quite good, actually. Be Helpful.

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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. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!)

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APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Um, sorta.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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 a great idea, I think.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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? Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate?

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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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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.) Be Helpful.

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APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. Be Helpful.

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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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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? Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. What content does the best? That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 How many people sign up for which webinars? Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Your content still needs to be valuable enough to justify the cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we demanded that a basic low cost connection and computer and training were available to every Aussie who wanted it like the telephone? Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program. Need time and patience.

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MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. The big thing this survey (re)establishes is that open source, whatever flavor you pick, has arrived and is the way to go when it comes to CMS.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

February 18, 2008 This is a rant. As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. How do we know our options?

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AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. 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.

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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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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. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) Be Helpful.

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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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