Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

It’s cross-platform (available on all platforms) and works really well (the old player was a bit buggy, but those have been really smoothed out, of late.) And it makes disseminating your organizational videos easy as well. It is, I imagine, what the future of television will be. {

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. to the data in the Kintera platform. Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.01.07

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APRIL 3, 2008

Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. {

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08 Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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JUNE 17, 2008

. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. at 2:30 pm Great breaking np tech news.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations?

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AUGUST 14, 2008

I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 All really great stuff.

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JANUARY 3, 2008

Thunderbird is cross platform, too, so if you’re like me, and hope between platforms, Thunderbird is there with you. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 David Ascher 01.03.08 And its secure, makes doing GPG signatures and encryption easy (although I haven’t gotten around to doing them, though.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

I think in some ways, this might decrease LinkedIn’s usefulness as a platform for fundraising or constituent-building by nonprofits (it has always seemed less viable for this than either Facebook or MySpace.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 Anyone interested?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

It is cross-platform and written in Java (and, I think, shows off the strength of the Java framework.) But that is great – if you know your stuff, you can get a lot of performance out of Azureus. Bittorrent is a bit of an arcane art (and, of course, getting a bit of a bad rep, since it’s the major avenue for P2P pirating.)

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MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Gulka 05.30.08 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Gulka 05.30.08 But will it get better as a result?

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JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 Did you switch platforms? I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). Is this typepad? I like it a lot.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). Updating it to Creole 1.0

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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 Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! for writing one-page fact sheets.

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JULY 6, 2008

So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. The SDK will be available later this month.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. I could think of several interesting implementations in the nptech world that would be fun (like it would make a great e-learning platform for, say, circuit riders, or folks like that.) One of which is called Elgg.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. I don’t think that’s possibly representative of the sector (especially since in the survey, the most popular CRM was CiviCRM.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08

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JANUARY 25, 2012

One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. They are mashing up apps, figuring out what music you listen to on Spotify and offering up tickets that might be of interest. ” You can read more about how it works from the Facebook developer notes. with their Facebook friends.

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MAY 19, 2011

Videos should be clear to understand if employing dialogue or music. Music is great for enhancing the mood of a video and nonprofits and libraries interested in low-cost music licensing can check out Magnatune 's music library or Frog Music Licensing.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 We’re working with them to bridge another free open source CMS platform Joomla to it. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. This is very cool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It is cross-platform. PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports. It is also cross platform. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It is cross-platform. PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports. It is also cross platform. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 5 admin 08.24.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Because I want to understand, in the most personal possible way, what the pains (if any) of migration to an all free and open source platform will be. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.

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