Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS). There are both proprietary and open source LMS.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

As courses progress, Slack is used as the central channel for all course communications, including peer collaboration, speaker announcements, industry news, and mentor feedback. The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. So what’s the news? MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. I was profiled on Linux.com.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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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. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. The next step was to get online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. at 8:32 am It’s healthy to be a skeptic when new technologies appear on the landscape or else you end up with shiny object syndrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. For some things, there are lots of relatively decent choices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

My one request is that vendors who comment on this blog take a moment to step back a bit from their myopia, and look at the ways in which they can contribute to a vibrant, active ecology of choices, rather than fight for their own little piece of the pie. { I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. The data from these systems is then used to inform the recommendations provided by the LXP. Individual’s interests, past activity, experience, goals, and learning styles.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) It’s a great idea, I think.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Considering that nonprofits are increasingly being held responsible for outcomes, not just activities, it makes sense that their consultants would move in this direction, too.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign. Plus, you’ll get free publicity for your campaign and tap into a whole new group of supporters—the news station’s audience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. It is a rock-solid distribution with what is arguably the best package management system. And, Canonical also provides professional support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Should this ED, and/or this organization have a blog?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That dog won’t hunt. I believe that a web site will eventually become a major hub of communications even for direct service organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. More than 3.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

This is not so far on the heels of the acquisition of Get Active by Convio. If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

That’s how many websites tech security experts and analyze estimate are hacked every single day, a staggering number even when you consider there are some 644 million active sites operating at any one time. By its very nature WordPress is ripe for hackers: as a platform that utilizes open source code—anyone can use, share it etc.—there

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

They both have good documentation and active communities. For pagination I understand you can have multiple paginators per page with ajax but from what I’ve seen the whole system asumes you’ll be paginating one thing at a time so it’s more of a workaround than anything else.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. Human crisis responders monitor active chats in real-time and review past chats to ensure quality and identify any issues. An AI system must be grounded in human values and judgment to be safe.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Websites have changed a lot over the past few years.

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