Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. Now, I finding my interests more in the “being&# or train the trainers or process vs content. This lends itself to a more networked way of working, although it isn’t easy. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

But I think the larger question about folksonomies is important: is efficiency all there is, and in what ways are folksonomies a way for the “folks&# (rather than “experts&# ) to have access to the process of categorizing their own content, and content they care about? What do those guidelines look like? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Pretty presentation with no content is useless. 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

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. would all be free (libre). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments. First, there’s the blogging issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07 sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content. Um, sorta.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 Joomla is great for a website CMS – it’s great for categorized content, multiple levels of menus, granular control of layout of content, etc. It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. All comments are publicly viewable here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

A blog is more than a personal journal. Niche content. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. User generated content - Web 2.0 Personality is important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. .&# at 7:01 am John, Thanks for your kind words, commenting, and reading. Thanks for blogging.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For example, right now, Temple Contemporary's offices are packed floor to ceiling with broken musical instruments from classrooms across the city of Philadelphia. The cuts were so deep that school music rooms are full of unplayable instruments. Artsy journals. One of TUPAC's current questions is about the state of art education.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. <a

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. Whether a teen zine about punk music or a university journal, the Underground Library will collect it, catalog it, and share it in ways designed to help people learn more about their city and each other.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). Yes, bars have always featured live music, comedy, and spoken word. It's fine to drop in and out of the game.

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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 ran into an old colleague at NTC , and it came up, because he had been thinking of contributing to the journal, but decided that he probably won’t, for reasons I will talk about.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 What content does the best? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. { How many people sign up for which webinars?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

The University of British Columbia recently published a study in the journal Science demonstrating that people who give away a small amount of money in the form of a gift are happier than those who spend the same amount on themselves. gift economy exploits users, but the benefit for the content creators is a kind of fame and recognition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ro 05.30.08 Probably not that well, because I think we’re still about 6 months away from Wordpress being an out-of-the-box CMS — a bit too much tweakery is still required, especially with regards to category-smart dynamic inline content. Next step — CRM. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

at 8:53 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin Reagler 02.19.08 Best and easiest out of box *content management* system out there. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09 at 8:05 pm Thanks for this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Looking forward to more comments and posts in this vein. As I keep thinking more about this, I’ll be blogging about it. Mitchell 04.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

" using the metaphor of an orchestra conductor and virtuoso orchestra musicians making music together. Since my formal education is in music ( studied flute ), I'm going to riff on Vicky's ideas because they reasonate with me. Vicky says that writing a blog, like music, is more than a single solitary note, but a composition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I was pretty doubtful about the general usefulness of content-less social networking sites (as distinct from those that are content-driven, like flickr and del.icio.us ) but it seems that Facebook is becoming a platform, and has ceased to become simply a social networking site. These are questions that are yet to be answered. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

at 7:05 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Charlie Crystle 08.07.07 It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. million nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

at 9:19 pm { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris 09.11.08 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

JANUARY 26, 2009

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&# Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. So I was a journalism major in college. I loved all things journalism, magazine, newspaper. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content.

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