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. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

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. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Ok sorry for evangelizing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The alternative would be to use 1.1 I mean, sure, it’s generated code. Sure, it’s cake 1.2x (which never seems to get out of RC) but well. which is stable but has stuff like ‘you’re limited to one validator per model.’ ’ More than a rant (although this is a rant) this is intended as mini-cautionary tale.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. 5 Anonymous 04.14.07 Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. The lite version is a free online tool that allows you to add titles and music to a succession of photos, and the effect is incredible. It is not a cloud application. It’s called Animoto.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Alternatives to Substack: Substack may not suit everyone and before you add a platform consider these alternatives: Website Content: Focus on growing and building your organization’s website for SEO and engagement first. Dave has fantastic insights into voter engagement today.

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