Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. Now, there is. Actually, there are several.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. at 10:25 am Congrats!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It is actually pretty mind-boggling. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 The event itself has been fab. As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. Check out the wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. 2 admin 07.11.08

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Its not an original work, but is work Ive compiled from many brilliant minds whose thought leadership, innovation, creative thinking, and written work has motivated and inspired me. moments of working in nonprofit-business partnerships at the most grassroots level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07 Xen comes to mind. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. Luckily, there is ProjectPier , which is a fork of activeCollab, and will remain open source. I’ll be moving from activeCollab to ProjectPier soon. {

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

If I listened to conventional blogging wisdom, I’d only be blogging about Weight Watchers (my most popular posts by page views) or Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction ( my most popular post by comments). Yet I am mindful that there are two distinct audiences that read my blog. My blogging mojo has never been around page views.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Before I took off, I wanted to mention a few things that have been on my mind (and on my plate.) That is actually one of the things I’m going to try and change – to set up to do a post every weekday. We’ll see how that goes. First, some of you might know that the new version of the NOSI primer has been in the works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage. at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 Brian 11.23.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mindful consumption of information is at the heart of content curation practice. The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search. (You Let me know in the comments. We need to go on an information diet. And guest what? Benefits for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07 It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05% 05% of the nonprofits in the United States (the foundation center says that there are about 1.4 million of them.) How could that be representative?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I got some interesting comments (especially the one that said “the author doesn’t really seem to understand the distinction between free, open source, and proprietary software&# , which I thought was a hoot.) Comments? { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 01.17.08 4 Laura Quinn 01.21.08

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Audience matters, and being mindful of what your community is interested in should inform the curation process. The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. And Kontribune is a community newsletter that lets the audience add comments or content. The Human Element.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets). Keep in mind that there may be staff turnover or you may decide to work with another outside developer in the future so you’ll need the code to be easy for anyone to review.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment ‹ Today something good happened Don José › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Filed under ideas , video.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment The Magic of Giving › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. Tagged photos , walk.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Only one of these four raises questions in mind about whether charitable assets might have gotten distributed in questionable ways. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger. Most organizations (like some of these) bleed out rather than formally dissolve. Great post mark!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

There are some really great men who hang out too, who don’t mind being around a bunch of geeky women. Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 .&# But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs. Perhaps that is what some respondents had in mind. In regards to your comments on connections I learned more about this in the past few weeks. So, should we send them more e-mails? More newsletters?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

These are the questions on my mind, and as I think more, and learn more, I’ll write more here. Feel free to comment on things you’d like to see me explore, or the kinds of things you’ve explored yourself. at 6:15 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Afrowig 01.19.07

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. Here are some of things we keep in mind as we plan our new media activities: Be consistent. Many of the lessons apply across new media tools. Plan ahead. Make it personal. Make it known.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Two things come to mind. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

ve been responsible for bringing animal cruelty and animal welfare related issues into the media spotlight and on the minds of average Americans. Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. Our mission is ???celebrating

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 10.22.07 The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. to Ma.gnolia.

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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 So just to say really, that we should be mindful that as well as the biggies out there that we all know about, we should promote and participate in other great FOSS CMS that are futureproofed and adaptable for the nptech world too! at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Leave a Comment. Comments (required). Easy RSS Updates with PingShot. Rebecca Muller.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I'm not afraid to admit I'm wrong or change my mind. You can subscribe to the site via RSS , but when I post it does automatically feed out to Twitter and Facebook. Leave a comment » Politically, I lean left, progressive, liberal.whatever you want to call it.and I'm not afraid to express a strong opinion.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I'm not afraid to admit I'm wrong or change my mind. You can subscribe to the site via RSS , but when I post it does automatically feed out to Twitter and Facebook. Leave a comment » Politically, I lean left, progressive, liberal.whatever you want to call it.and I'm not afraid to express a strong opinion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll. Allow readers to email posts to other people. Enable subscription by email with Feedblitz.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Post a Comment | by Share Article in Video Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06 As you well know, one of the things that has been one of the most important to me is the availability of good software for nonprofits that’s built for them in mind. at 12:33 am Michelle — thanks for this. Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

However, there are opportunities to have RSS-fed updates flow into and out of an individual's profile, so your volunteers can help share your information and recruit their friends and colleagues here as well. One important thing to keep in mind when using social media sites is that it should be clear who owns what property.

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