Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

As most of you know, I’m a very long time veteran of web application building. I’ve been involved in web application development basically since they started – when, when a cgi-bin folder with some perl scripts to process simple forms was the norm. The developers? What could I have done differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the Social Innovation Summit , a twice annual event that represents a global convening of thought leaders in technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. Says Newhouse, these donors are younger and want to engage with us differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Most nonprofits implore: “Just fund a development director position for us, and it will pay for itself in a year, enabling us not just to survive but to thrive.” According to a new study that TCC Group is conducting of the Packard Foundation’s support for nonprofit capacity-building activities, the answer is no. What you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It has the kind of functionality you’d expect from a donor database. It seems in a business sense, to be a brilliant move.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Develop and refine short-term and long-term goals. Perhaps politics has played a role and you need to develop a plan that doesn’t involve government funding. Building the brand. Consider hiring a consulting firm that specializes in developing strategies and training nonprofit executives. Cheers and Happy New Year!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

I expect that this will enhance the appeal of LinkedIn for nonprofit executives, staff, and consultants for our own networking needs. So, how is this relevant to nonprofits? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. At first, I liked it a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It’s aimed primarily at developers. That means developers need only write an app once, and it can get used on any of the networks involved, like Orkut and LinkedIn. And I’m not entirely clear yet how many should be jumping on this bandwagon to either do fundraising or community-building. OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. All-in-one.

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MARCH 3, 2012

I’ve been co-moderator of the group since 2009. User, administrator, vendor, consultant. But I could list 100 other free services where the developers stand behind their work and will address an issue that is entirely out of the users’ control, as this was. Doesn’t matter. The group is completely independent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) From my perspective, the key is openness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The APIs will be without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Here are some I’ve found so far, that I’ll be following: OpenSocial Zen – meant to be a place for developers to share ideas. There are an amazing number of new sites that have launched over the weekend (I imagine people sitting in their home offices with lots of caffeine and pizza.) In the long term, if the whole web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. Oh, and my consulting practice has a new logo, done by the fabulous ALR Design ! { I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The second part of Facebook’s advertising platform is likely not going to be used by nonprofits, for the most part, but is important to consider if Facebook is a part of your constitiuent-building or fundraising strategy. at 2:39 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.19.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Coach, consultant, and writer Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. And today, I learned about two online tools written with Asterisk, which would have been impossible a few years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the one hand, it’s important to kep looking ahead to know what’s coming, and build systems and processes for our nonprofits that will still be relevant next year. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 at 7:16 am The question of how bleeding edge we need to be intrigues me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually. collaboratively developed software, and, really, collaborations of all sorts are limited by this mentality. No web development help. So, guess what?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They need to open their doors, make installing MPower easy (it’s not, at this point) and set up some community functions to help grow a community around the product, which will help it grow, and really help to begin to provide the avenues for developers to get involved, and continue to help build the product.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

What ticks me off is that by far, the richest (and I mean that in many possible senses) area of software development in the nonprofit sector is … fundraising. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. The only thing that will be left is games. It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. It seems a fitting moment to say goodbye to Apple. {

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

When NFF began this survey in 2009, many of our clients were in “triage” mode: they were dealing with mission and finance-related emergencies, relying on short-term coping strategies—like reserve depletion and staff furloughs—to make ends meet until the financial crisis was over. Many are recognizing that this dynamic may be here to stay.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Add-on developers will always be less sophisticated than core developers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

"If we build it they will come" only works in the movies. It’s so nicely done, I wish it could indeed become that unified place. Except… Everyone wants their site to be the unified place. Wishing, unfortunately, won’t make it so.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010. At present, we’ve conducted one-on-one consulting engagements with over one-third of the state’s DV programs. Like this article?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I use GNU/Linux almost exclusively, and I am building a Linux distribution. at 10:33 am You say that we live in a quite capitalist world, as if it is a bad thing. I have to ask, why would you think that? I love open source software as much as the next guy. But, it isn’t as if I intend to be a pauper and live in a box or something.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It means lock-in that they don’t have to build. However, Michelle, your attitude is to not join yet another social network. I hate to tell you this but commercial social networking entrepreneurs LOVE your attitude. The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. 2 admin 10.02.07

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first. The grandfather of all Giving Days – Give the Max Day in Minnesota has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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