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. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable. They needed a mobile app that worked offline.

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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.

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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.) 2 Brian 11.23.07

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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 ! 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

In that model, O'Reilly said, "The only real citizen participation happens when something goes wrong. Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Ehtan Zuckerman blogged this week on Nancy Hafkin Gender and IT about disparity in access to the Internet of women and girls. You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06 at 2:22 pm Thanks John, and Tory – I imagine I’ll keep bringing this up, and pushing a bit.

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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 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. This breaks the whole thing open. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. I’m not so clear about how this helps users. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). Like it or not, it is not possible to keep kids off the Internet. A patient identity integrity toolkit including model data practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. 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.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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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

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

As noted in the foreword, “The field of accounting has traditionally evolved in response to the needs of the business community. Therefore, new accounting models are needed that speak to the uniqueness of nonprofits. These data sources are updated regularly and are easily accessed on the Internet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites.

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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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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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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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Care2

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: Julie Barko Germany, Director, Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet 9. Panelist: Charlene Li, Thought Leader, Altimeter Group 4. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

There are many aspects you need to consider to ensure the success of your learning business. Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Format conversion tools. Easygenerator.

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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

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? at 9:47 am Actually, the truth with free and open source software is that it is indeed possible to get very good software without shareholder investment. OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Census Bureau , almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home. I got involved in green coworking, being here in Citizen Space and trying to bring some of the green values that I promote on my Internet sites into actual practice here in the work place. According to the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. Well, Web 2.0

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