Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Don’t Tell the Donor talks about a dustup between Greenpeace and the Salvation Army.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. In this view, the attention economy does not operate separately from the cash economy; it’s simply a means of creating cheap inputs for the cash economy. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&#

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

As community member and Executive Director of Knowbility Sharron Rush points out , a culture of accessibility requires "open hearts and minds, the ability to listen and look in new ways, the willingness to lay aside basic assumptions, and a true commitment. And it's free, to boot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

clearly has had the lion’s share of attention for a while, but who knows how long this will remain. You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Nancy Schwartz , author of the popular Getting Attention Blog, is known for her sure fire marketing tips. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

As a result, there are some gaps that we don’t have the time to give the attention that they deserve, or we have tried to find replacements and have been unable to come up with anything with which we are happy. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Linda Douglas, Senior Director of Marketing and Annual Giving at UM’s Office of University Development, shared with me some insight into what it took: University-Wide Participation. Total donors on the day totaled 6,927, an increase of 27% over 2014. How did they increase both donors and dollars raised by nearly 30%?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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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. I want us to pay attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. I have been a champion of openness of all sorts, including such things as open licenses and the destructiveness of DRM, in panel after panel in the nonprofit tech community for a decade.

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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.) has also released a few more drupal integration modules.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. trained battalion of the Salvadoran army.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

How open data is transforming democracy in Africa – and the challenges it face s. In response to Derrick Herris’ post If you’re disappointed with big data, you’re not paying attention , Patrick Meir gives a list of misplaced assumptions about the relevance of Big Data for disaster response and emergency management.

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