Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Worth a read!

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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 spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X No happiness for me. And it’s hard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. It is being beta tested as part of a new model of high quality education in schools called: Sujaya : India’s 1st K-12 Hybrid CBSE Schools www.sujayaschools.com. Here’s the third rung of this strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This convergence is being driven by widespread penetration of mobile devices (up to 4 billion people now have access), advances in software innovation and powerful applications, and the maturation of the internet providing a gateway for "cloud" computing where data and applications sit and run over the web.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers. We are all for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

They work by REST via POST, or JSON. I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. Plus, in 2016, it created a new community initiative to distribute computers and Mobile Beacon Internet to low-income people. PCs for People works with over 400 companies to offer a secure end-of-life asset management service. Going National.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. She shared insights into the inner workings, vision, and future of Causes, along with best practices, success stories and sneak preview of now launched custom Facebook tabs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Well, good afternoon, everybody. You want to get rid of all that burnout if we can. Thanks for being here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities. One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S. It became a commercial company in 2008.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

And I've been finding that my friends get really worked up about it -- it's clear the newspaper as it exists today has real meaning in people's lives. The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. The Internet has disrupted the old economic realities of information distribution.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

In my tests it was buggy (some parts of it just didn’t work), and the interface was still a bit crude. Here at ReadyTalk, I am the Account Manager who works with our Nonprofit Customers helping them save money increase their efficiency through using our audio and web conferencing services. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The Internet has phenomenal power. As many nonprofits and socially conscious organizations and businesses now know, the Obama for America campaign broke the mold this election season in almost every aspect: fundraising, outreach, grassroots efforts and particularly using the Internet and new media to do almost everything.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Because email… what’s the technical term? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. How does it work? Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? It was organized by Ed Schipul. What is it?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. What are these new competitions about—are they working? Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. 2008: How do I do it right?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

The first thing I suggest is to be genuine -- interview people who are affected by the work your organization does, record actions you are taking to solve problems in your community, ask YouTube users to sound off on why your issues are important. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Join our panelists, who have successfully championed social media initiatives, for a discussion of what works and what doesnt when it comes to selling social media to your boss or clients. Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

note: I was getting around to writing up my own notes about SXSW, when I realized Beth had done all the work for me, as usual! In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. What are these new competitions about—are they working? How does it work?

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

The first thing I suggest is to be genuine -- interview people who are affected by the work your organization does, record actions you are taking to solve problems in your community, ask YouTube users to sound off on why your issues are important. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

But the Internet has changed all that. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. “The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. .

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

But the Internet has changed all that. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. “The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! Non-Profit Technology Work: How You Can Do Good submitted by Fred Benenson, Creative Commons.

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