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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Well, that depends of course, on the organization. Learning platforms, of course, are varied.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

This, of course, doesn’t mean that all of a sudden, everyone’s social graph and data will become portable, but it’s a very good sign that perhaps, after all, things are moving in that direction. And, of course, nonprofits should be especially keen on being able to keep control of their data.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat.

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MARCH 17, 2008

And of course, there is Penguin Day !! I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. I’m looking forward to it. I think it will be a great time. And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined. Although among browsers, its market share is still way behind IE – but that’s mostly, of course, because IE is the default browser for every windows machine. And yes, it would be cheating to make that a separate blog entry!)

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MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Now, of course, as a techie, and someone with a home network, and multiple computers, and varied projects, there is always a list like this. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! There are several issues here, of course. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I have owned about a dozen Macintosh computers (or clones) over the course of 20 years. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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MARCH 10, 2008

In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another. I have found this invaluable as a way to move forward in my course of study.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. She suggests not to panic, and not to change course – keep steady, and keep communicating. SOX First, which is a new blog to me, and focuses on Sarbanes-Oxely compliance, asks whether nonprofits hold the ethical high ground.

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JULY 30, 2008

Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 I read her blog for great tips on professional development and technology. { 1 trackback } links for 2008-07-30 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.30.08 Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community.

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APRIL 17, 2008

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. Of course, it’s only a study of Convio’s clients – but it’s interesting nonetheless. { It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though.

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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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MARCH 24, 2008

There are, of course, some tweaks we can make to make sure that everyone really can gain value from NTC, and we can sustain the richness that it contains. The conference was rich with great speakers and content, and it’s great to see how far things have come. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009!

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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. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Bittorrent is a bit of an arcane art (and, of course, getting a bit of a bad rep, since it’s the major avenue for P2P pirating.) Way more than I could even talk about intelligently. But that is great – if you know your stuff, you can get a lot of performance out of Azureus.

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MAY 29, 2008

And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM. Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. And how will Convio react? It’s going to get interesting, for sure.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. That, of course, can spread virally. Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization.

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JUNE 17, 2008

Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. at 2:30 pm Great breaking np tech news. This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. 2 Jake Brewer 06.19.08

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And don’t miss John Kenyon ’s blog post on his top tips. Make sure to stop by the 501 Tech Club Happy Hour. This is a chance for any Tech Club member in any city or anyone who''s curious about what 501 Tech Clubs are, to meet face-to-face and learn more. Read on for more tips (and maybe add your own). Visit a Giant Panda.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Of course, there is a lot of buzz about Sprout. I am, of course, waiting for Beth to tell us. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. stuff, I think it will take a while to figure out how nonprofits can use it. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Microsoft is in an interesting place with their cash cow, Office.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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MAY 18, 2007

Of course, we all know that many of these patents were dubious to begin with – UI and business process patents that had no business being granted to anyone in the first place. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again.

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JULY 10, 2008

Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, OpenSocial has blown the doors off of all of this, and what’s come out of it is quite interesting. Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Of course, the API was only one part of Convio’s initiative, so I do still think they come out ahead, a bit. I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments.

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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. I’ve learned a lot about FOSS since then, of course, and the other aspects of FOSS have also come to be very important to me. So here goes.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.)

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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. 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Of course, like all open source software, it is “free as in kittens&# – but this particular kitten is pretty grown up, and already spayed and litter trained. So, here’s the great news: Hot on the heels of Microsoft missing the ISO boat , IBM is lending their weight to the OpenOffice.org suite. (In

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AUGUST 6, 2007

So there was the saga of migrating my data from Apple’s proprietary address book to Evolution (and of course, dealing with the beast that Evolution is.) And, to top it off, I had to make things more complicated last week, because I decided to get a Palm PDA again. found a great, really cheap E2 on Ebay.)

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JULY 9, 2007

It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. at 5:36 am I was reading though this post thinking about Evolution until, of course, you mentioned it. There are basically three options. 1) Since I’m using Thunderbird as my email client, I could use that as my addressbook.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

So running RHEL on Amazon E2 is a potentially low-cost, low-pain way for nonprofits (with appropriate levels of tech staff, of course) to dip their toes into hosting complex applications on Linux, without having that noisy box in the corner. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07

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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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