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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OCTOBER 19, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. She is a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology field.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

even as I evangelize among non-profits for the use of some of this newer technology. Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. So it's what's on my mind.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 10, 2006

Take a look: you'll find that the program has a nice, crisp responsiveness unusual in a web app, showing off the Google development team's expertise with Ajax. But the application provides only the simplest subset of Excel capability. Last week Google announced their new Spreadsheets offering.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool. All kinds of data could be delivered in new ways using emerging push technologies. Real-Time Sharing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Take a look.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. He also points us to books, languages, and application frameworks - like this survey of five new "rails"-like application frameworks for php.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. In addition to telling us about the applications, he follows their fortunes in the trade press and blogosphere.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? Out of all this work, a software application was born, called MEMBERS ONLY, a modular application for nonprofit CRM.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I'm struck by a disconnect between the advantages of the new web technologies and the business goals our users are striving to meet on the network. Allowing the use of your key business applications from multiple sites. As I've been reading the explosion of postings all over the net dedicated to "Web2.0"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 applications every day.

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