Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. I sure hope the reality catches up. Way to go, NPR!

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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. Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. Content suck: And why do the for-profit social networks exist, when you really get down to it? Time suck: Social networks are a time suck.

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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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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Media is one of the content industries we’re specifically highlighting this year, and these individuals truly represent “the power of influence.” The Media section features Jessica Prois, executive editor of Huffington Post Impact and Good News, and Peter Koechley, co-founder of Upworthy. What else inspires participation?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? News release mentioning the benefactors.

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JULY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. For example, Amazon’s Alexa along with the site’s personalized recommendations for movies, books, and music are provided by various AI models.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling. 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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! for writing one-page fact sheets. Be Helpful.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation. 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. First, there’s the blogging issue. It’s just so … painful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

Question: What’s an example or two of a company in the news today that could have benefited from a CONNECT approach? By gaming the system for short-term gains, they destroyed decades of trust overnight. Their shares fell 30% when the news broke. Another example is the music streaming service Spotify.

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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 and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

And ultimately, in Michelle’s perfect world, all software, all content, all hardware, etc. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. Joomla is great for a website CMS – it’s great for categorized content, multiple levels of menus, granular control of layout of content, etc. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? And NOWHERE have I been able to find a good, basic, user-oriented “what are these content types and what do I do with them?&# sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

Media is one of the content industries we’re specifically highlighting this year, and these individuals truly represent “the power of influence.” The Media section features Jessica Prois , executive editor of Huffington Post Impact and Good News, and Peter Koechley , co-founder of Upworthy. What else inspires participation?

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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. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. 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.

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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. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

This year they even partnered with news stations to really get the word out about their mission. Consider creating a welcome quest using your peer-to-peer platform to introduce board members to the system and how they can use it. Consider recording the content so that supporters can watch it again in the future. Pledge drive.

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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. So you get people like me who kinda, sorta, understand. Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

Can you talk a little bit about what the crisis is, and what the connection is between today's food system and climate change? If you add up the whole food system, the whole food sector, what you find is that it contributes to one-third of all of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions. I'd love to talk about it in those sections.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We also have some good news for you. You can even automate this process with an integrated fundraising system. Strong content like this will help establish your website as the central hub of your online presence. Strong content like this will help establish your website as the central hub of your online presence.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

What content does the best? What are our sign-ups for new members, for renewal membership? Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede. Other metrics we look at include: What are our sign-ups for our newsletter? Be Helpful.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Effectiveness of Content. Conclusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Anyway, the survey report, and survey data are worth looking at if you are shopping for a CMS. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? at 5:32 am How do we make great new content if it always needs to be free? But then I looked deeper.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

There are quite a number of really good CMS systems (both open source and proprietary – I’d say there are a good solid dozen) that have large user bases, many developers and vendors who implement them, and their are lots of new modules and functionality being added every day. But, that was then, and this is now. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

at 4:30 pm Michelle: I wonder what you think of David G’s framing of the content model issue. link] This resonated for me: “Content is no longer a value generator… it is a consumer capturer. Catherine 4 Beth Kanter 04.13.07 5 Anonymous 04.14.07 5 Anonymous 04.14.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Rapidfire acquisition of smaller players so that you can wrap it up into a system of systems seems to be their strategy for now. Click & Pledge will soon be launching a new version of its SaaS for nonprofits. It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. Be Helpful.

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