Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Welcome packet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

It has shortcuts for all of your servers, has nice drag and drop for moving files around, allows you to do all sorts of remote actions on files, etc. No, it’s not slick, but Filezilla does the job nicely. It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS. I use it all the time, and I really like it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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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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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. 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. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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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

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

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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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

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

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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. 5) Online classes.

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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. There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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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. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

info, software owned, software downloaded, files) - Identify what config info can be exported/imported - Think about file folder structure and how to improve on new system -- since I've been using tagging, my file folder and document naming habits have gotten totally sloppy. I have 20 years of files on my hard drive - honestly.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. For instance, they often have data to demonstrate the work they are doing: children educated, animals saved, meals served, etc.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

We’ve done a few; I’ll interview someone for a specific reason for an article or to add to a file. A few years ago, we had a music exhibit, and we put a cellphone on exhibit because there are ringtones that go with cellphones. We on staff have so much to do, there are only four of us, and we know oral histories are so labor-intensive.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. well educated demographic, avg income over 100K. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I would love to share with your readers that we have a very generous Education Progrm underway, weherby we are giving large blocks of Premium accounts to Universities nationwide. I’ve made a note to let you know when the two features (plus other very cool new features) are released into production later this year. One last thing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were musicians, we'd have the recordings and the sheet music. We see this as part of the network of sites that NSF is funding for informal science education. Going through the old exhibit files at ASTC, the file folders, the idea that those might make their way into here is really exciting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

I’d like to see email, file sharing, accounting, and other standard collaboration tools in the cloud and well supported. Really, though, I’d say that my particular expertise is education. Files: moving your files to Office 365 or another cloud-based file solution gives everyone access to the same files from anywhere.

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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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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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