Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Notably, the group debated the tension between short-term fixes and long-term systemic change. Elizabeth Whamond. Juliana Pereira.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

I was joined today for a panel at SXSW to discuss the blurry or blurring lines of personal and professional identify online. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Personal and Professional Identity: Social Media Policies for Nonprofits. With me on the panel was Debra Askanase, Jess Main, and Vanessa Rhinesmith.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. Here my perspective.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc. We know, another log-in!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Discuss on-the-job opportunities with managers. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. Discuss On-the-Job Opportunities with Managers. Actively look for new learning opportunities. . The first step is simply to ask.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Ukrainian crisis, climate change, health, and cybersecurity were just some of the topics discussed at this year’s NetHope global summit. Our system was done from scratch, and we are able at last to accept all kinds of donations.”. He said each of these thank-you emails also yields an average of $170,000 in additional donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. . Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g., models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. .

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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). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS). There are both proprietary and open source LMS.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. The discussions that take place on the various WordPress forums can yield invaluable help for the both the newbie user and the seasoned professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon. I learned a lot.

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MAY 25, 2023

This sounds even more ridiculous when we acknowledge that we’re working with human beings who are infinitely complex, and we are operating in a space to address systems, structures, and practices that in many cases have been intentionally designed for hundreds of years to limit the possibilities and success of huge segments of our population.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online. The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

She describes the CrisisCommons network of individuals and system for sharing open data to respond in times of crisis. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. Philanthropy and Open Government Data. Philanthropy Can Catalyze an Open Government Movement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It works for multiple projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

I was joined today for a panel at SXSW to discuss the blurry or blurring lines of personal and professional identify online. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Personal and Professional Identity: Social Media Policies for Nonprofits. With me on the panel was Debra Askanase, Jess Main, and Vanessa Rhinesmith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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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! So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But, as an organization’s needs grow, this kind of system becomes burdensome and labor-intensive. The solution to this dilemma is a customer relations management (CRM) system (sometimes called a donor management system in the nonprofit arena). There are dozens of CRMs out there that cater specifically to nonprofit needs.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

In this post Dana MacLean, uses examples to discuss the opportunities that lie in using big data to improve aid systems and humanitarian assistance. Some of the topics to be discussed include: best practices on conducting hackathons and ensuring the sustainability of results as well as making the most out of apps competitions.

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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 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They provide in-depth reports comparing open source content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems. Check out their latest reports on the 2103 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind."

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. Learners can rate content, leave feedback, receive acknowledgments, discuss concepts with one another, and more. Even further, should you invest in one?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. Be Helpful.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions. For example, one system may prefer that husband and wife are created as a joint account, while another may prefer that the two are individual donor accounts that are linked. By way of qualification, our intent with this article is to be CRM agnostic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it! Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

2) Curated Blog Posts and Resources that provide context to the discussion or resources mentioned. 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. Notes from Session.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take. Be Helpful.

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