Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) It is basically group synchronous chat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. If the learner is not actually opening the content, then you’re not providing a valued service, you’re just contributing to alert fatigue. Slope of Enlightenment. xAPI: It is eerie how xAPI has exactly followed the hype curve.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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