Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). There are both proprietary and open source LMS. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. I was profiled on Linux.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about. Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. On the theme of this week in the US – Thanksgiving day, Elisa, of Nonprofit Congress, is thankful for her work. Good stuff!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

The conference was rich with great speakers and content, and it’s great to see how far things have come. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference. It was incredibly well organized and smooth running, the food and snacks were great, and the parties rocked. Be Helpful.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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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

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 I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Um, sorta. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. 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. Open for suggestions! First, there’s the blogging issue.

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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. 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. And I’ve come to understand what I value about some development shops, and what I don’t value about others. I like proposals that focus more on the project, and show clear understanding of the project. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. I agree with her that open journals are the future. Open-access is right. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

There is a $5 fee to use the library, but it is open to the public for history and genealogy research. MBWML also holds an annual Court Day Festival, which provides a full "living history day" of reenactments, music, storytelling, demonstrations, and more. Norton Small Business 1-Year Subscription for 20 Devices.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Joining the chat were experts behind some memorable nonprofit videos Christina Samala , Director of Online Strategy & Media for The Story of Stuff Project ; Kirthi Nath , Media Producer and Filmmaker at Cinemagical Media ; and Mike Bonifer , co-founder and CEO of GameChangers, LLC. Share Your Concept with Stakeholders.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. would all be free (libre).

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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. Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 tool to jump in. What a concept. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

That's what I found myself wondering again and again in the too-short hour I spent with the director of Temple Contemporary, Rob Blackson. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. The cuts were so deep that school music rooms are full of unplayable instruments. There's no money to fix them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur. Over time, she encountered the music in multiple locations--in a symmetrical architectural space, with family. Later she said it pried her open. When we trust, we open up.

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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. And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. Good analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. Aspiration's Executive Director, Allen Gunn , read a series of opinion statements and asked if we disagreed or agreed or were neutral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own websites, blogs, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m your host, Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub, an educational resource for nonprofits. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. You are asking them to share your content on their social network. P.S. as we all know isn’t as strong as the call out, so their task is to share the content to their networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. 10) Hybrid concerts. 11) Live entertainment. 20) Book club.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. I want to offer my good wishes for your new venture MetaCentric Technology Advising. “finding the balance and looking at the big picture&# sealed where to put this. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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 Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Conclusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Key Report #3: Content Popularity It's essential to view the list of Top 10 (or 15) most popular pages on your site. "Knowing what content is being consumed can lead you to so many insights," Kaushik says. Key Report #5: Site Overlay Wouldn't you love it if you could open your site and see exactly where people are clicking?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In four of the seven real exhibits, they also contributed content and expertise.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

I’m your host, Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub, an educational resource for nonprofits. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So when that cash comes in, it’s wide open to you. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. You can hear more of their music at bernardus music dot com.

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