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JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. I’d love to chat sometime. I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 I even decided not to buy Leopard for my Mac Mini.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle Murrain, Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Blog. It is a very small liberal arts college in Vermont, where everyone knows everyone's name. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I think that the nonprofit tech community in general operates a lot out of a gift economy model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. I invited Patricia to do a guest post when the report was ready to be shared because of my work with arts organizations and social media. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. This breaks the whole thing open. at 1:15 pm Open Social != Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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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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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Be Helpful.

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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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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. I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? Kickstarter backers are mostly young adults with money who are broadly interested in supporting the arts and creative practice.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Unlike credit card companies, airlines or any number of other consumer-oriented businesses, nonprofits today still depend largely on employees to manually integrate all information about each constituent for marketing purposes. Many corporations use "enterprise resource planning" solutions to overcome similar business challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

We'll touch on academic research, business implementation, and grassroots organizing strategy. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. t just arbitrarily demand openness. Trish Perkins gives us a detailed roundup and notes from all the sessions and dinners she attended!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. Panelist: Charlene Li, Thought Leader, Altimeter Group 4. The key to growing your online communities is through growing your social capital. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CRM & CMS Integration: Plone and Salesforce.com March 16, 2009 Today, I was reading up on what the Plone community has done with integrating their CMS with Salesforce.com. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09

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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. You can’t tell it, I need a join here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology No more custom CMS! I wrote that CMS back before there were any really good open source ones, like most of the custom CMS out there. February 18, 2008 This is a rant. How do we know our options?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? The journal is, basically, business as usual. Is there a business model that will make this work? But then I looked deeper.

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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. Empowering my clients to think evluatively hasn’t put me out of business. Really a lot.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it. But, hey, why not?

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APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 When I re-started this blog 6 months ago, I named it Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology for a good reason. I want us to pay attention.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of business, of politics. You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? In about 10 years, it’s become the dominant source of temporary accommodation in the world without owning a single square foot of real estate to that end. That’s all power. The kind of power you hold up and power as a current.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since. That funding model is a powerful one. The library’s funding model makes it uniquely responsive to the community.

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