Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. No setup fees or anything else. But, of course, as with anything, look (a lot) before you leap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. to develop open source software. Xen comes to mind. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 ! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. This feels like a different part of the digital divide. But it needs addressing. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual events are much easier to run as they create a complete digital footprint in real-time. Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Numbers 32 through 39 can help you raise funds in the digital world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. LFP is a nonprofit and has launched The Library Digital Privacy Pledge of 2015. A patient identity integrity toolkit including model data practices. Common Sense Media to the rescue!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. It’s hard to control such an organic process, and control is something a lot of people really like. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Accessibility is good for the business bottom line - "The benefits of accessibility would [.] By this action we are not only contributing to the society, but we are also aiming towards our goals of increasing market/increasing viewers and in turn increasing business. from Palak Timbadiya via Linkedin. Tips for Website Planning.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

Now" is not an easy business model to chase--especially for institutions rooted in permanence. Consider the experiments at the New World Symphony in Miami, where they are performing classical orchestral music for outdoor "wallcasts" that include projections and visual content. Digital or analog. What's trending.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Thanks much for getting this going. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I had a hard time being a successful business owner with employees (I pretty much suck at it, so I hitched my wagon to Database Designs Associates from 2003 until this year.) And I also struggled with the consulting business model. I stumbled a fair bit along the way. Can’t you just use categories? Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The lounge will be the place to meet the best and brightest socially-conscious Geekeratti at SXSW and catch some unplugged local music. While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

A documentary film crew might use Kickstarter to pay for travel costs, or a dance troupe to pay for recorded music so they don't have to hire musicians for their live performances. Tags: marketing fundraising business models. The all-or-nothing funding approach makes many project creators conservative about their ambitions.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Strategic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Though I think Plone’s developers are conscientious about security, it’s really Zope’s security model that keeps add-on developers from routinely shooting everyone in the foot. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In other words, if we are either offering fewer performances or fewer tickets available, and combine that with pent up demand from our most loyal patrons, we could potentially manage a return to our concert halls or galleries that sells out—and that would be the best thing possible for our business. Can I serve more people this way?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

It is commercial, but it has a kind of pay-as-you-go pricing model. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Simply put: we don’t make any assumptions about how you’re modeling your data, we just let you grab it as you need to. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09 Look for that shortly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The journal is, basically, business as usual. emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. But then I looked deeper.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

There’s also that you can’t easily paginate multiple models in a single page. Paginating those 2 is a different story since by default the parameters that specify the page you’re in do not distinguish which model you need to paginate. You can’t tell it, I need a join here. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

It will be redesigned as a green building and have offices for like-minded nonprofits such as Global Exchange and Mother Jones , affordable housing, event space, a Green-mart showroom, retail space and a digital broadcasting studio. It is a volume business. When he recruits he uses a "low touch, high value" model.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

It’s also the time for web developers to let their babies go, and start building their business on a well-developed CMS. It’s also the time for web developers to let their babies go, and start building their business on a well-developed CMS. We’ve been on one of the custom CMSs that you write about in this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

And there are other models – SugarCRM is a model of a for-profit company that has a community version – so more people can contribute and benefit from their software. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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