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.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Google Analytics is also free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t necessarily think Twitter will abuse the info, but you never know what’s happening behind the scenes. BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. 5 Jay 12.18.07 I hope this will help in understanding how it works.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

P.S. Granted this post is a bit old, and cake has matured quite a bit even over such a short period of time, but I figured it’d be nice to share more info for any of your readers. Not to mention the excellent console tools. Yes, I am biased towards cake) :) 8 Kevin 02.19.09 at 8:33 pm Why not use regular mysql_query() for complex joins?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.)

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