Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now. A few days ago, Michele posted her blog’s mission statement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. . * Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Aspiration's Executive Director, Allen Gunn , read a series of opinion statements and asked if we disagreed or agreed or were neutral. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Click to Play - OS Next Generation Music - Voyage Black. Lots to think about here.

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