Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. My 14-year-old son Jimmy had installed some new software, against my express wishes to not install random software from the Internet (still a good idea!). Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2013

video editing software," he said. "PowerPoint is a tool we already had, and rather than spend time researching new software, we were thinking. stages, setting it to music and using a format converter to turn the. PowerPoint file and accompanying music into a video. "I'm not familiar with any.

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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. It’s great to hear that it can scale, since I really think it’s a great software. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. 3) Cooking classes. 6) Craft nights. 9) Movie screenings.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2013

You get unlimited storage, however, for purchased music, movies, apps, and books from iTunes. If your iPhone is running iOS 5 or higher, Apple's cloud syncing software iCloud will automatically back up some of your data. You get 5GB of storage for free; if you need more storage, you'll have to purchase an upgrade.

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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. I am committed to the ethos of free software. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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 didn’t get so far into coding the markup, but I had decided that I’d follow MediaWiki’s syntax, since it was the most popular wiki software. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. Our Local Impact Map.

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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

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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I’ve thought that it was truly one of the best pieces of software ever written. 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.

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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? Of course, like all open source software, it is “free as in kittens&# – but this particular kitten is pretty grown up, and already spayed and litter trained. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. But, that was 4 years ago. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

I learned this from early days in music school (and art school) -- you listened to music or viewed art and analyzed what you were seeing or hearing. The screencast is done MTV style - that is it is like a music video - visuals and music - no narration. Editing is done to the music and works well. Instructional.

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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. You can see the software interface and sign up for a free 1 on 1 trial or a full featured demonstration free as well. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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! 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

My next task is to find out more about podsafe music sources and better understand music file formats that will work with Microsoft Movie Maker. Not how to make the software do it, but how to make my and speech sound articulate and match the clips exactly with good timing. (Stand up comedy skills would come in handy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Each upgrade cycle, it has gotten more and more difficult because the amount of data I keep and the number of must-have software and the tweaking. How will I ever make migrating all my software, tweaks, customizations, configuration info, etc. I have 20 years of files on my hard drive - honestly. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To bring your virtual event to life and provide an experience that’s just as enriching as an in-person one, you need the right fundraising event software. In this guide, we’ll dive into the different types of fundraising event software that nonprofit leaders have successfully leveraged for virtual events. Bidding Software.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

I converted the file back into an mp3 in iTunes (Garageband exports it as an AIFF file into iTunes) and uploaded it to Gcast. Audacity is another free software option you can use to edit podcasts. Gcast automatically submits it to the iTunes Music store. This seemed like the most accessible option. podcast podcasting

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. Back in the day, Blackbaud used to hand-deliver the hardware and software to our clients. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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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 Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

BR for POGO: If I'm not fighting government corruption, I'm probably making music or roving around the country with my band Bombadil. BR for POGO: In general, I think we try really hard to make sure we're making the most out of the software. We just put out our fourth release last month! Curious ears can listen here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

I’m sure that Four Kitchens, and most open source software developers agree with that perspective. But, if you’ve been an observer to the Linux/Windows FUD wars, you’ll remember that Microsoft has that exact same argument about why there are more security vulnerabilities in Windows as compared to Linux. Be Helpful.

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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.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Some of the biggest reasons to replace computers is not as much the hardware failure issues, but software bloat and cruft, and planned obsolescence. Of course, there are caviats. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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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. We talk much more about the value and values that free and open source software bring to the table.

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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. they make digital soundboards that plug straight into your computer and record with various software options.

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