Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 The only thing that will be left is games. It seems a fitting moment to say goodbye to Apple. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. The event itself has been fab.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Get the Most out of NTEN. Anyway, if all you're getting out of NTEN is this newsletter, you're clearly missing out. Let's just consider our popular webinars : in addition to saving up to 50% off our already low prices, NTEN Members can buy the Season Pass -- unlimited webinars in 2009 for only $275. note: Ouch.]. Stay tuned!

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MARCH 11, 2014

Every year I look forward to one very special conference - the NTC conference organized by the awesome NTEN team. Dance the night away to 80''s music by DJ Tea Jay, complimentary food, and drinks. Did we mention fun? Salsa and Rad Campaign are bringing it back for one helluva of an 80''s dance party!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

That’s kinda fun! I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. I was profiled on Linux.com. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us So we’ll see how it works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. An NTEN staff person interviews the expert on a conference call line, while people listen and post questions in the back channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Release Candidate to help with QA, which has been fun (and 2.3 I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., for at least 4 years. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I could think of several interesting implementations in the nptech world that would be fun (like it would make a great e-learning platform for, say, circuit riders, or folks like that.) I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. Yeah, it’s fun that there is a great mix of people that I can keep track of (and they can keep track of me) – that’s the part of the equation that’s hard to find elsewhere.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. That's why I'm so happy to see the well-written article that Ali posted on the NTEN blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

But there are some very cool and fun widgets. I haven’t tried really hard to use them to create community (and no one that I know has yet IMed me because they saw I was online from my blog.) And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Mac or PC [link] GarageBand: Free with Mac [link] Podcast Hosting Liberated Syndication https://www.libsyn.com. $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos. so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" What is a Widget?

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Although I do have to admit its fun to know what a very old friend is listening to on Pandora.) I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? What have I learned in all of this?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! Podcasts , PodcastDirectory.com , Odeo , Podcast Alley , Podcast.net , and Podcast Pickle. and OurMedia. Don't be afraid of the tech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. It booted fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. Larry told me about the what they learned from the results: - Our blog brought in traffic, we thought it was just fun to. you won't get it unless you were a music conservatory student like me. do - Search queries we never thought of were leading to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

That's because Michelle was in the Science Building on one end of campus, while I in the Music Building way on the other side. It's a good excuse to read lots of other people's blogs, and feed into the general nptech blogosphere, which is fun. On the technology side, I just finished, with NTEN, a paper on open APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

at 7:31 am Michelle — this will be a fun conversation!! (Is, It might be about more than keeping a clear eye on our integrity and values, it might necessitate a much deeper investigation. 4 Katrin 10.13.06 Is, as it were.) And why do we think about business processes? Because we run organizatons!

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

After NTEN had to cancel their annual conference, they set up a crowdfunding page where people could still donate to help cover lost revenue from the conference. Unrelated speaker: Have a standup comedian, yoga instructor, mindfulness coach, etc join for a fun activity. Virtual Live-Stream. UnConcert/UnFestival. Virtual Sleep Out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

As Linus said: Have a lot of fun. Because most people will only use what they are familiar with. it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. your message will justify them. This is why your message is sad. I bet you did.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. Big thanks to the Have Fun * Do Good and NetSquared readers who sent me some of these links). She reads 4 blogs a day, five hours a week. Take a look below at this quick round-up of nonprofits blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. These things play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, and set alarms. Good job, NTEN community! For more #nptech news, check out part 1 of this blog series. The next frontier?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Not only does the game turn "doing good" into a fun experience, it's also creating a legion of content creators who are comfortable being themselves online. # As awareness and acceptance of these types of games grow, we hope to see the evolution of social impact through game-play become as normal as playing games for fun.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. This fun, informative conference will spark ideas and recharge your engine to keep doing good every day. Mar 11 - 20. SXSW / Austin, TX / Price varies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

But, still, although Facebook has been fun to play with, and many of my colleagues are using it, and it doesn’t take away from my workflow – it hasn’t actually helped me do much work. But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

And the new stuff is sending vast quantities of personal and democragraphic data back to HQ for the fun of the campaign’s rabid number crunches. Fun will be had by all. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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