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It holds everything from our recently visited spots in our maps to all of our photos and movies, favorite apps, passwords, music – you name it, and the cloud is probably helping you out with it. Similarly, data losses or bugs within your local system become less of an acute issue and aren’t your sole responsibility to fix.

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MARCH 19, 2024

It holds everything from our recently visited spots in our maps to all of our photos and movies, favorite apps, passwords, music – you name it, and the cloud is probably helping you out with it. Similarly, data losses or bugs within your local system become less of an acute issue and aren’t your sole responsibility to fix.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

If you're new to the NPO world, consult your state and local laws about social host liability. Additionally, give guests things to do other than drink, and plan “last call” about one hour before the dancing, live music, games, and fun photo ops end. However, never presume; always double check, and confirm with your insurance provider.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

If you're new to the NPO world, consult your state and local laws about social host liability. Additionally, give guests things to do other than drink, and plan “last call” about one hour before the dancing, live music, games, and fun photo ops end. However, never presume; always double check, and confirm with your insurance provider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The authors say that having sufficient capital and resources to build authentic, deep relationships is fundamental to achieving progress on many issues. In recent years, funders, practitioners and academics have been paying more and more attention to the role of social networks in addressing issues of public concern.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

(Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! There weren’t many takers on this one, but there are some real troopers out there in the nonprofit consultant blogosphere, so there’s some great stuff to talk about. Sorry it’s a day late.

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DECEMBER 1, 2007

I’ve been interested in issues of how we sustain open content for a long while. It was very useful, and interesting, and gave me lots of food for thought. I was the note-taker for the session, and I feel like there are a lot of great ideas out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Things “just work&# (for the most part – apparently Leopard has been having issues.) Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 The only thing that will be left is games.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! Lots happening! And, I’m learning a lot about what it’s like to be a leader of a small, struggling nonprofit with big ideas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

One of the big beginning issues was that if a fan page was public, and it can have URLs, then that must be great for SEO , right? Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. at 2:39 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music. If Apple were subjected to the ruling the Europeans just issued Microsoft, they would be hurting. There are better sites for music and there are adequate players for 1/5th the price. He should understand that the same thing is true for iPhones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online Concert: Chances are your donors are missing live music right about now. He’s also the founder of Think Big Campaigns, a full-service consulting firm that specializes in political consulting, digital organizing, and issue advocacy. Share This Post! Recent Posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

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. And make it reasonably priced. This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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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. There are several issues here, of course. Directories were shared. But I’m not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. Komen for the Cure, for their Salesforce-based application formerly known as Aikido, presently known as Common Ground. I trust Allan’s gut instincts about CRM technology. It’s a great, thoughtful post.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. .&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. We’re really behind the concepts of cloud computing and Web 2.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Get creative. that you can make available?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? Right, right, right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

This can be sensitive issue for some orchestras at particular times. Makala also noted that her job is about consulting and training people in the organization to use social media effectively. Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. Decks and Links here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? This blog is rated 8.2 very good, they say) on Blogged.com. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I guess that’s a good thing. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

at 12:24 pm Scaling isn’t such a big issue with DokuWiki anymore. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. Anyway, it’s worth checking out. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 01.21.08 have a look at this recent mailing list post: [link] 2 admin 01.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. We talked a lot about network practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I’ve been doing a lot of technical writing – I just put the finishing touches on my third of three articles for LASA’s ICT Hub Knowledgebase , I’m writing an article on Open Office Base for the next issue of Linux Identity Magazine , and, of course, I’ve been busy writing the NOSI primer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) Work doesn’t get done. Blog entries don’t get written. Emails don’t get returned. My practice in patience only goes so far. The Mac Mini I’d been planning to get for a while just got ordered, next day shipping.

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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. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. I’m looking forward to getting into the meat of the writing.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

.&# But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. 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. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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