Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. What: The art of social instructional design. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online. It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. When was that?

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JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More FUD from Redmond May 18, 2007 I hear, in my head, the famed quote from Rodney King: “why can’t we all just get along?&# It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? Or sail around the world.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

We also have a few major grants to continue working on this integration stuff, expanding it to include other complimentary services such as online advocacy and more. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. I’d love to see similar code released for Drupal. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? 2 trackbacks } What software freedom means to me » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.25.08 at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08

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AUGUST 17, 2007

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 August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. 2 admin 09.18.07

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MARCH 4, 2007

The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications. She reads 4 blogs a day, five hours a week. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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But from time to time, a donor will offer you something else: stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency, an acre of undeveloped land, a house, a boat, a car, a painting, a sculpture, a rare book, a musical instrument, or something else that makes you scratch your head. Should you say “yes” and take the donation?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. The book is fascinating on multiple levels. I loved the sections of the book that focused on the interplay between artists and security staff.

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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. Not to mention the excellent console tools.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

This was for all the good reasons: computers are cheap, support is expensive, and it would cost more time and money to diagnose and fix a computer than replace it – so replacing computers on a regular schedule would actually decrease IT costs. .

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JULY 17, 2007

And an art gallery. While some museums would perceive such visitors as a disturbance or would not grant admittance without an adult, others have developed services like the Brooklyn Children's Museum's Kids Crew to promote hanging out at the museum as a cool (and safe) activity. This is the ultimate mixed-use space. It's a laundromat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. What is going on for them? Are they angry?

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Facilitation: Not Merely an Art Facilitators know how to support a group to come up with shared agreements for engaging, and how to help them stay true to those agreements. They also tap into the arts – and connections to our bodies and the natural world—to spark transformative and generative spaces.

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JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Last month I posted about one of my favorite books this year, Women Who Light the Dark, by photojournalist, Paola Gianturco. She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark. They are making progress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.)

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