Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s really fun, and important. Women and Open Source and Identity. I’ve been involved in this Telesummit now since the beginning. The Women Who Tech Telesummit was formed three years ago to celebrate all the innovative women who provide incredible value to technology and social media. Female Ferocity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. And it’s nice to save a few bucks per month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. And it’s nice to save a few bucks per month.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. And while collaboration through content sharing is at the heart, there is much more networking, collaboration, and fun on the schedule! Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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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. What are the tools like? Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. Managers even encourage teammates to have a little fun and create social channels for employees to connect on, including #cooking-with-medic and #pet-pics.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Charity Hack looks to be a terrifically fun event for nonprofits and techies alike! We hope by the end of the weekend a number of interesting applications have been born that can be used by any charity under an open source style licence. Join us 19-20 September 2009 and be part of this extraordinary event.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2008

That’s kinda fun! I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. I think they are onto something.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Dries ‘ keynote was fun, and it was great to hear a bit about the history, and also the ideas about where Drupal is going. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. One thing he said in particular stood out: “Start thinking of the internet as one big machine.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t know why this rose to the top, but the carnivals are fun to do. Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. 3) No More Custom CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I was at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit , which was an event full of great sessions, meeting neat people of all sorts, and having lots of geeky fun. Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? Join the Hunt for Fun and Prizes. – 12:00 p.m.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Release Candidate to help with QA, which has been fun (and 2.3 It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? for at least 4 years. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. Lately, I’ve been running the 2.3 and pretty good, and improving fast.)

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) And it's fun! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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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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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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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Adafruit also offers step-by-step guides for many fun electronics projects that feature the Raspberry Pi, and MagPi is a monthly magazine devoted to the latest projects that the community has developed. Power source.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them. The ice bucket challenge didn't focus on guilt; it focused on fun and entertainment, and it worked. Your SEO strategy should work to set up your organization as a source of information and education.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. And the funny thing about using Windows is that I have now noticed how much work I used to have to do to make sure things were going to work with my Mac.

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MAY 5, 2021

There are tons of fun and random holidays nonprofits can take advantage of to create unique and interesting fundraising appeals. Have some fun with it by creating teaser videos to create anticipation on social media, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does every year on Facebook (and this year on YouTube, as well!).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.) I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. Be Helpful.

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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. I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street.

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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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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. It is currently 37 pages of fun, so why not double the fun?).

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Time flies when you’re having fun…and apparently so do books. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. We have also created a special collection for returning veterans, in addition to our useful career resources collection, and of course tons of books for fun. Have an Android device?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The creators hope that the result is not only simpler, but more “ fun to use.” The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. is an open-source alternative that is based on many of the same. ActiveCollab.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2008

But in terms of long term sustainability, from my perspective, picking one of the well developed open source CMSs and running with it, can’t be beat. Some arguments I can certainly appreciate better than others (the Python vs PHP ones are fun.) For instance, I chose perl over php and postgresql over mysql in 1999.)

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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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AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge.

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