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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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MARCH 4, 2011

With just two weeks until the event, MobileCause (the co-host of Innogive) has decided to extend this deal to the NTEN community and enable 50 additional nonprofits the chance to attend the conference for just $99. Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

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. There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

For more nonprofit- and library-specific apps, also see: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. NTEN offers four strategies for going mobile. Arts Organization Apps. Office Apps for Smartphones. Library Apps. Apps for Every Organization.

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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. It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times. Be Helpful.

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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.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 mathew [link] 2 admin 01.15.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action." What does working wikily mean? How can we work wikily effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

I want to thank all the UK folks who sent us examples, pointers, left comments, and also a few US colleagues for walking the open source thinking walk with us - Holly Ross at NTEN and Katya Andresen at NetworkforGood who shared their powerpoints on these topics. Well, gotta get another latte.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. But I imagine that’s not necessarily true of everyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 8:42 am I think the biggest pain point that Twitter has is getting people to start using it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. IT Adoption among Nonprofits" by Paul-Brian McInerney (who is an editor for the forthcoming NTEN and Gilbert Center "Journal for ICT in Social Change Organizations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. It’s very basic.

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JANUARY 22, 2009

No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. Tags: corey pudhorodsky NPTech NTEN Newsletter podcasting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. We have definitions of legit nonprofit. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! There are 18 articles.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. Definitely agree on all fronts. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Each year, NTEN recognizes some of its brightest members who have offered their time, talents, and wisdom to generally "amp up the awesome" of the nonprofit technology sector. Just before NTC each year, NTEN staff and board members make a final decision on the award winners. Images 2, 3, and 4: courtesy of NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. What do these tools allow you to do? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

that I will highlight, I’ll give you a short definition of what Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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