Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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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 13, 2007

Release Candidate to help with QA, which has been fun (and 2.3 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. for at least 4 years. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. Along the way, we make it fun. Tags: 09NTC awards NPTech NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 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. at 8:47 am Hi, I floated over from NTEN. (The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us 3 KJ 08.09.07 Be Helpful.

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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! Be Helpful.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Women and Open Source and Identity. P.S. We also have fun after parties happening in DC, NYC, and SF following the TeleSummit on September 15th from 6:30 to 8:30 - [link]. It's a balancing act -- literally. Oh, and women vs. men presenters.

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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

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action." Human Elements: Trust and Fun matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. The topic is how to do have fun and do good! It's an open source free web meeting service. Fundraising 2.0

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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. Be Helpful.

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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? Be Helpful.

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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

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. I bet you did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2010

Too many people fear their website redesign or implementation projects, especially in the relatively unknown realm of Open Source CMS systems. They think that because they don’t know the jargon or aren’t a technologist that it's all voodoo and going to be painful and complicated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. at 7:31 am Michelle — this will be a fun conversation!! (Is,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Where Most Needed blog lets us know that Google has acquired a fun statistical visualization tool from a Swedish nonprofit. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Have Fun â?¢ open source. Certified Association Executive. Charity Blog. Christine.net. Dear Association Leader. Debora Elizabeth Finn. High Context. Michael Steins NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY BLOG. Mission-Based Management. Net Squared from Techsoup. Nicks Book Blog. Non-Profit Tech Blog. Non-Profit Web Design Blog. net2mashup.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. How to make it work: Popular, Easy, Rewarding, Fun, Cultivate, Tangible. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. He came back an evangelist for social media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Two I’d recommend first are Beth Kanter’s Blog and NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward's personal blog. My web developer colleague and enthusiastic blogger, Bob McDiarmid , told me that a majority of the charity nonprofit websites that he has seen are on either the Drupal or WordPress nonprofit open source platforms.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 2001, we focus on serving the nonprofit sector and provide technology consulting, strategic assessments, print and web design services and open-source CMS implementation. A long-time supporter and member of NTEN, we are proud to be exhibiting and speaking at the 14NTC in Washington DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

novices are heading to Minneapolis later this week for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), hosted by our friends at NTEN. participation frictionless and fun, even for folks who aren't very. something together with a variety of open source tools? Event cloud computing nonprofits community NTEN NTC #13ntc'

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. Fun will be had by all. Well, Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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