Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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!&# And then there is data.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. Ten campaigning tips for lobbying MPs - "nfpSynergy has a wealth of back-data regarding MPs' opinions of charities and their campaigns, comments from those who work in this area and experience of the sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!)

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production). It’s useful to bookmark a few performance tips posts for easy reference.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). That is so cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. there's a boatload of social bookmarking sites for instance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – Very interesting new infographic helping dissect data from a national poll examining whether or not Americans trust the media during political peaks. "The

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Last week I joined Ello , a new social network that is ad-free and allows users to opt out of some data collection and tracking. This came particularly frustrating when I started an Ello account for our web agency @RadCampaign so we could share fun photos and musings related to open source and philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

One of the great things about the Facebook platform is the way that it can integrate online data. bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vizify scans your Twitter account to find your most retweeted tweets, most influencial and engagaged followers, and the most common words associated with your Twitter account and then packages the data into a Twitter video that you can share with staff and followers. VinePeek :: vinepeek.com. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Clipix :: clipix.com. Easelly :: easel.ly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. What do these tools allow you to do? Be Helpful.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. Sounds fun right? You should too.

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