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 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. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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JULY 7, 2010

Microsoft's new version of Office 2010 is interesting in several ways, especially in its approach to green IT and cloud computing. The free online version of Microsoft Office 2010, called Office Web Apps for Home and School is free to anyone regardless of whether or not they use a desktop version of Microsoft Office.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them. In addition to funding, the tools below can engage new supporters, constituents and future advocates. Event management?

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APRIL 21, 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 #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Thanks to Stacey Monk for the tip that Animoto let's nonprofits apply for free pro accounts – looking for a tool to help with your video storytelling, multimedia fundraising and more? Check out Animoto!

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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.) IRC is an incredibly useful tool. I use IRC every day.

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FEBRUARY 26, 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 #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. It’s a pretty amazing tool. There are channels for everything.

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JANUARY 4, 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 #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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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 #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client.

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FEBRUARY 7, 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 #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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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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MARCH 9, 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 #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. World Wildlife Fund :: March 15, 2010. By 2010 the World Wildlife Fund had launched a much larger, longer website with more color, larger photos, and a larger font.

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JANUARY 31, 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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox is arguably the best web browser there is.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project – "This paper represents an initial study of ChatRoulette.com, conducted between February 6th and 7th, 2010 by researchers in attendance at Web Ecology Camp III in Brooklyn, NY.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

CrowdFlower has announced CrowdConf 2010 , a crowdsourcing conference that will take place in San Francisco in October. Tags: Event Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Presentation submissions are being accepted through next Wednesday, September 1. ( We've talked a lot on this blog about crowdsourcing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 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 #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design. You can also follow other people's plans.

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APRIL 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 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 #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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JANUARY 24, 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 #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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APRIL 12, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising. We wanted more than four ways to use the new tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 I think I’m going to wait at least a few weeks after getting an invite to the next web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits.

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APRIL 21, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Grizzard Communications Group – Free social media tools & the ‘experts’ who can’t answer “How?&# – Eric has a great list of free social media tools to help you find content, monitor trends and much more! "In

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Continuing a series of posts on tips and tricks for Microsoft Office, this month we're tackling Outlook 2010. It's a good tool for managing email, calendars, and tasks in the office setting. If you've just upgraded to Office 2010, check out this post for a roundup of new features to the suite as a whole.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 25th). NonProfit 2.0 Unconference here: [link].

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs October 17, 2006 One of the best parts of Web 2.0 These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. That a growing number of consumer brands are transforming their existing static Web sites into interactive online communities is a trend that is not only recent, but also rapidly accelerating." " What do you think?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool – NYTimes.com – "For more than two decades, e-mail has been the killer application of the Internet. We continued in 2010 with a second list, and now we're readying a third.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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! Just also to say – I don’t think of WordPress and Joomla as “competitors&# – they are both really good tools, and great at what they do.

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APRIL 14, 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 #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s walk through four lessons we learned from fundraising during the pandemic and learn how your school can implement these tips moving forward: Leverage online fundraising tools. Virtual fundraising tools have been incredibly valuable during the pandemic, allowing traditionally face-to-face fundraising methods to be moved online.

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