NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. Photographs are likely the most common form of media added to your site—and likely the ones whose accessibility guidelines you are familiar with the most—but this category also includes videos, audio files, and downloadable documents. By Stuart Holland, Sr. Web Developer, TerpSys.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Sometime after leaving WGBH and feeling lost about my career for a while, I discovered NTEN and the career called "non-profit techie" That’s when I also discovered the two-step secret to becoming a non-profit techie. Teaching Your Co-Workers : Are you the only one who uploads files to your server? Indispensible Resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Follow a simple risk assessment methodology to deal with this issue: Inventory places in your organization with PII (Personally Identifying Information); check both electronic files/database and physical files as most regulations require compliance for both forms of information. Privacy matters for your organization!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. Wordpress now uses dashes instead of underscores, so that’s something you don’t have to worry about. That’s all. You don’t have to worry about using mod_rewrite at all. Getting the varied blogrolls and badges, etc.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Consult your. and work on work files from a home computer. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. In this age of unfettered access and. crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by. using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. like delicious.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right? Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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!). I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. .) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If Heather Shelby began her career working as an email consultant for Members of Congress, transitioning into the nonprofit world a few years ago. At EDF, we wouldn't disagree with that, but we do think it has the potential to become a competitive source of donors and activists.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Share status, links, and files in a microblogging client. The answer to that question is a resounding denial. Socialcast (or Yammer ). Socialcast is Facebook for organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In July of 2010, we added a new dimension to our rating system which considers the accountability and transparency of charities as reflected in certain information on their web site, as well as new information required in their annual IRS 990 filing.5 Tags: NPTech NTEN transparency Fundraising. And you can take that to the bank. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Is Content Strategy a fancy term invented by consultants? Invented by consultants? Additionally, you may want to record the “assets” on each page (like text, photos, videos, files), meta-data, technology issues, owners, date last updated, etc. Fancy term? Content Strategy is basically the how-to of online publishing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. I’ll keep you posted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Plugged it in, and it just worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

something like a consulting company or creative manager." For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. at 1:50 pm Modx is wonderful for adaptability (especially as a web dev) and sNews – just keep watching, no instant install as yet, still young, but wow – amazing since only one really lightweight simple php file! Joomla is growing fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He then talks about something that I find really interesting, and hadn’t fully understood until I read it: why the radio spectrum was regulated in the first place, and why now, regulation is basically moot. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Often, the engineer role is filled by an outside developer, consultant, or firm. Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats. A lot of IT failures happen when people focus too much on one issue at the expense of another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

The nonprofits saved significant amounts of time (30 – 40 hours per month) creating reports and in looking for files and information. Having worked in the financial services industry (PNC Bank, KPMG consulting and Aegon) and in the healthcare industry (Humana, Inc., Yes, and yet, this is the first step.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. The Non-profit Consultant. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Mission-Based Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net. You've got to love their logo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. Interesting post, thanks for clarifying our list rates vs. NP rates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Most of the administrative problems are: 1) using an outdated versions, 2) using a module before it is “tried and true&# , 3) using the PHP/FullHTML input filters that specifically allows for dangerous output code, and 4) not correctly setting permissions for the file system and database grants.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In Allen "Gunner" Gunn's opening plenary at NTEN's cloud computing event last week , he spoke passionately about the potential for cloud computing to transform organizational boundaries and barriers ( see the video of the session ; Gunner's keynote starts at 29:50).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation. at 4:52 pm Wow.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

These PDF files contain the location details from your map and can also contain some of the attribute data you created. Contrary to most nonprofit tech stories, this one does not end with you hiring an expert consultant at some exorbitant hourly rate.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Converting Fresh Leads Into Donors&# and featured Heidi Hess of Children’s Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation , with Holly Ross of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) moderating. Q: Which consultant did Greg use? We would expect a lower rate from new acquisitions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use. IIS may come magically installed (and probably running) on your Windows Server, so you do have some smartness requirements to install Apache (not much, though). If you want them to do anything fancy, they’re both a pain in their own unique ways.

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