Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

It’s hype designed to sell things. And hype designed to sell things isn’t necessarily going to help make the world a better place. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? No one should take this post personally. Can it be demoted now?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2 Way to go, NPR!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

at 1:02 pm thanks for deflating a bit of the industry hype and prattle with this provocative and essential idea. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

at 1:02 pm thanks for deflating a bit of the industry hype and prattle with this provocative and essential idea. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

though is more hype than useful. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 that are incredibly helpful, and provide things that really do connect people, and help people decide in a much more granular way what they want to read, and have access to. Some of Web 2.0,

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights. Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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