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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Tutsplus has a helpful guide to buying your first Raspberry Pi, complete with info on every component you'll need. Power source. hardware open source' They tend to include other useful components like an SD card with an operating system pre-installed. Some tips: Pick the Pi that best fits your needs. Power ratings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Kaliya Hamlin pinged me to let me know about She's Geeky -- here's the info from the site. A Women's Tech (un)Conference. Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to. Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to. Hardware companies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

You want proprietary or open source software. Whether you want a straightforward, simple password manager or something to help safeguard your personal account info, too. What you want to pay. Password managers: helpful features. Password management software means all your passwords are in one place.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing! Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together! In other news: Arif Mamdani is the new Executive Director of the Progressive Technology Project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That dog won’t hunt. I believe that a web site will eventually become a major hub of communications even for direct service organizations.

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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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APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Grameen compiles and crunches the data and delivers vital information back to subsistence farmers via text message - like crop prices and weather info to that help them make the best decisions about their farm and future. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies (TechCrunch). Data Mapping and Visualization.

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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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