Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration.

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MAY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately. Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07

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JUNE 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook the last frontier? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!) Be Helpful.

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APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Why is this good news for nonprofits? But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. And just like OpenSocial was a great answer to Facebook, this is a great answer to the iPhone. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Let's just consider our popular webinars : in addition to saving up to 50% off our already low prices, NTEN Members can buy the Season Pass -- unlimited webinars in 2009 for only $275. And, of course, NTEN Members save $200 off registration for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Prepare for the NTC. Stay tuned!

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MAY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 functionality. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 27, 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 #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like?

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Music can, of course, be a powerful tool for driving the rhythm of a video. The style can range from simple, intro and outro music to full on music video. Here is an example that creates incredible rhythm with the action in each shot. You are swept up as the tension and pacing mount.

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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.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, Some of Web 2.0,

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APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. She’s ahead of me since she actually reads librarian blogs.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

to a nonprofit," my husband said the other day over lunch. What if a group of nonprofits got together and created an application where you could donate to one, or all of the groups, each month through your iTunes account?" Seemed like a good idea to me so I started searching around for nonprofit-related iPhone apps.

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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. So the scarcity mentality isn’t just for small, struggling nonprofits.

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JANUARY 29, 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 #6: Joomla! 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.

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MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. The geekout will be on Thursday at 3:30.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) Anyone going to help clean up?

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MAY 21, 2007

And, in some ways, NOSI has changed – we’re thinking more and more about talking about Linux on the desktop, which we thought was not ready for nonprofit primetime for a long time. But, Linux has changed, and I have changed. I think it’s ready now. I certainly will see. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. What I like: As a longtime fan of JP’s, it’s great to hear his perspective on the nonprofit sector.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

I’m betting that in 2009, many folks will move from shared hosting to VPS servers. Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development. Oh what a difference a year or so makes.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. You are certainly correct, in that nonprofits would much appreciate those features that you mention.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. You are certainly correct, in that nonprofits would much appreciate those features that you mention.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Metaphors October 10, 2006 I’m a fan of metaphors. So doesn’t the metaphor used for that software matter, then, in a nonprofit setting? For the most part, this has been simple exigency.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. 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. What’s involved in this?

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

I'm really excited about the Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned. Join us for live music, drinks, nptech application demos and plenty of free swag! I organized at the NTC last year.

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