Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

But I have to admit the bastardized language thing (“hai, I iz doin stuf&# ) just isn’t funny to me. Really, I am. Except, well, I just don’t get this LOL* pheonomena. I have to admit I’m a sucker for cute pictures of kittens. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. . * Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He Ping him over at his blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 is not a good idea. Yes, let’s talk about how Web 2.0

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. ford Thanks, Steve.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. For more info on this, I like Laura Orsini’s plain language description on ReadWrite. drone maker, Titan Aerospace for their Internet.org project to provide low-cost Internet to much of the developing world.

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Care2

APRIL 2, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Rose, your face is permanently frozen that way because people will shock you on the internet. I also use the five love languages, but we don’t have time for that today. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&#

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. A Cuban professor getting IT help to get on the Internet. It is for people who are already posting on Facebook and Twitter and for whom more attention is only good." He also noted: "One big challenge will be multiple languages.

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