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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. Zombie Harmony : For all your zombie dating needs. Wait, there's an election going on? Don't know how we missed that. If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MARCH 27, 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 Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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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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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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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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Everything that a tech person deals with on a daily basis revolves around problem solving. Sometimes, tech people need to be reminded of the broader context in which they are operating -- that there are solutions to problems that lay outside of software. This can be a tremendous asset at the management level. Solution Based Thinking.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 So, can you solve my to do list problem? :-) And I’m grabbing the sunscreen already! Second, is bookmarking. Anyone going to help clean up?

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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. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times. Now, it’s at: That sucks.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

No, the problem was, the video played at the 2008 NTC -- replete with images of animal abuse, including a long segment on the inhumane caging of chickens -- projected on a big screen, just as conference attendees tucked into their lunch -- of chicken breast. If you made a video in 2008, we want to see it!

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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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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.

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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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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.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. [Ed. I recently learned that online fundraising made up only about 5% of total annual giving in 2008. The problem is, not everyone is in here with us, and many of those people are our clients. OneWebDay's Nathaniel James offers something concrete you can do about the problem. I was floored.

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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.

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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.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2007

Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Wish I were!

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Data silos also create problems. years at DoSomething.org, he oversaw the complete overhaul of the site (cms, architecture, skin, etc) in 2008, landing a People’s Choice Webby Award in the Youth in 2009 and nomination in 2010. Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN. During his 4.5

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict? 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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MAY 4, 2010

Online fundraising, something I spend a large percentage of my work week thinking about, accounted for just 2% of total fundraising in 2008. But direct mail has one big problem: it's not so good for trees. Flickr Photo: licolnian Direct mail has been, and still is, the cornerstone of nonprofit fundraising.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

We, as nonprofit leaders, have problems to solve. Big problems. And good data management can help us solve those problems more effectively by allowing us to make better business decisions, collaborate more effectively, and engage the public and our clients in solving the problem, too. Clearly a problem, right?

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MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Aim problem in the men’s bathroom in the Amsterdam. Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008.

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MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Aim problem in the men's bathroom in the Amsterdam. Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. Want to do more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Aim problem in the men’s bathroom in the Amsterdam. Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy.

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