Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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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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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

If you produce documents or keep records and store them in a filing cabinet, a work computer, or an in-house server, your information cannot be seized without a judge's approval, you know when the government or a third party demands access to your information, and you often have the opportunity to fight that disclosure. Demand Your dotRights!

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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. But even if it doesn’t, at least the next time a computer dies, I’ll have a backup. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07 at 9:22 pm I hear you! 2 Pamela 02.27.07

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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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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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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Over the last decade, I've unexpectedly stumbled my way from religious studies major to accidental techie to a job I completely love as Director of Technology Strategy at a small, statewide org in Massachusetts that does health care reform work. Teaching Your Co-Workers : Are you the only one who uploads files to your server?

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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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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

t apply to the screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN I???ve See my tagging and widge t screencasts also sponsored by NTEN). For the Google Analytics screencast for NTEN, I did not bring any domain expertise to the topic! He also pointed this out as an example of the powerful personal learning that blogs can offer.

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Steve Maclaughlin, Blackbaud Idea Lab Director. Dropbox - managing files across devices, access to documents when on the road, or quickly sharing files with others. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN CEO. It’s a natural extension of the MS apps that most people use in the workforce (power point, excel, word…).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0

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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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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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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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Michaela Hackner, Project Director, Forum One Communications. 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. This is your chance to get intimate with your content. Only then can you see what work lies ahead.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

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! I’ll have to give it a whirl. 5 Laura Whitehead 02.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

at 12:32 pm Hi Michelle, Our Social Media Director came across your blog this morning, and passed the link along to me. 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.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats. Sometimes that vision is held by the executive director. I prepared a handout summarizing these points for a presentation I did awhile back, but let's dive in to the details.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2022

They work with leadership (usually a marketing or communications director) to develop and publish content for their target audiences. This work requires skills to resize files, convert from one file type to another, edit and crop images, and sometimes, create your own visuals and graphics. What does a web content manager do?

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Haji celebrated the accomplishments of the past year, which he said were: Bringing two great companies together Making Convio more “client-focused” than it’s ever been Launching Convio’s new partners program Opening up Convio’s product to make it more innovative; and Filing for the IPO. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. We learned that, collectively, we reach over a third of the 1 million nonprofit organizations filing 990s. Holly Ross is former executive director of NTEN, and currently executive director of the Drupal Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

HSUS Director of Emerging Media Carie Lewis Celebrates. As NTEN points out , the campaign include integrated tactics: They have a custom landing tab on Facebook for the campaign, tied to a contest: they’re asking their fans to share their pets’ stories and photos. Earlier this month. Click to see full infographic.

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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). " That's a powerful idea, but does it work?

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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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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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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

JANUARY 27, 2010

Communications can no longer be the realm solely of the communications department and the executive director. Have a centralized file system to store media. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Communications. Since most of your staff has no formal training in communications, you have to make it easy!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

My job was to keep everything up and running: the network, file servers, computers, printers, email systems, etc. My supervisor, the Director of Operations, had some ideas on what technology changes/improvements he wanted to see in the future.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Communications can no longer be the realm solely of the communications department and the executive director. Have a centralized file system to store media. Tags: CRM E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites. Since most of your staff has no formal training in communications, you have to make it easy!

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. Be Generous with Data—Water for People Ned Breslin from Water for People preached to the choir of the importance of using data to drive successful programs.

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