Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. People need to hear more good news. They need to feel hope. Engaging them just makes it worse. 3) Social media burnout.

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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. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. No web development help. So, guess what? But that’s scarcity thinking for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Go over there and comment right now!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. at 6:31 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.30.08 BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 Be Helpful. Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. 2 admin 11.10.07

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Last year, the festival grew in entries, reach, attendance and prize money with submissions increasing from 140 in 2009 to over 235 documentaries, PSAs and short films focusing on cause-driven issues from around the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Be Helpful. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. .&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 Be Helpful. This blog is rated 8.2 very good, they say) on Blogged.com. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I guess that’s a good thing. Something to watch. { at blogged.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

I can’t help it.) But I do want to spend more time thinking about this issue. One of the things that I have tried to do with this blog, and will continue to, is to get underneath the surface issues. How do I help people to dig deeper into the core of issues when we usually spend a lot of time on the surface?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

The other 1/2 of my time I’m doing consulting work , focusing exclusively on helping organizations without a lot of technical expertise navigate their way through the maze of creating and getting through technology projects. Be Helpful. I love this work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

One of the big beginning issues was that if a fan page was public, and it can have URLs, then that must be great for SEO , right? Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I’ve been interested in issues of how we sustain open content for a long while. Be Helpful. It was very useful, and interesting, and gave me lots of food for thought. I was the note-taker for the session, and I feel like there are a lot of great ideas out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. Be Helpful. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I have outstanding issues or decisions to make with my kernel not seeing all the memory I’ve given it (therefore requiring a recompile, which I have been postponing for weeks) sound, a webcam, a scanner, and accounting software. There are several issues here, of course. Directories were shared. But I’m not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). To all of the academics out there, I beg you to help me make this change reality. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 01.21.08 at 12:24 pm Scaling isn’t such a big issue with DokuWiki anymore. Be Helpful. I also use it installed on my home desktop, for notes, journaling and the like. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 06.19.08 Be Helpful. And make it reasonably priced. 4 admin 07.06.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I got some interesting comments (especially the one that said “the author doesn’t really seem to understand the distinction between free, open source, and proprietary software&# , which I thought was a hoot.) Perhaps we don’t have to spend so much time on this issue anymore. Comments? { 4 Laura Quinn 01.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 jrogelstad 08.27.07 Be Helpful. Intuit, the 800 pound gorilla in that space, moving to Linux is a great sign for the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. Be Helpful. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 Be Helpful. But that’s not the point of this post. When is data public? When is it private?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Release Candidate to help with QA, which has been fun (and 2.3 In talking with organizations that are using it – adoption issues for staff seem to be fairly minimal (my partner, a non-techie writer, uses it everyday, with no complaints.) IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { Be Helpful. at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

It helps that I have a yarn store less than 10 minutes away and have a whole bunch of real-life friends who are as serious about knitting as I am. In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. But it did help feed my yarn habit over the past couple of years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Be Helpful. My practice in patience only goes so far. The Mac Mini I’d been planning to get for a while just got ordered, next day shipping. 2 Pamela 02.27.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. I like JP’s take on the development side of nonprofit issues. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. My tip: JP, write more !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

The theme in all of the blog posts, and in my own approach to this issue, is transparency: we do all make mistakes, and what’s important is being honest about them. Be Helpful. And, since it’s a tough topic, I’ll not take myself off the hook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

.&# But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels. To vote: 1.

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