Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on). Shapins said the company plans to open it up to the public soon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on. There will be way more on this in later posts. 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I have outstanding issues or decisions to make with my kernel not seeing all the memory I’ve given it (therefore requiring a recompile, which I have been postponing for weeks) sound, a webcam, a scanner, and accounting software. In fact, what’s funny is that things that do in fact “just work&# with Linux almost surprise me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

That’s easier than it sounds. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 2 Michelle Murrain 03.19.07 at 5:45 pm Thanks, Michele.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Sounds like a reasonable idea. IRC has always seemed to me to be one of the best ways to do that, but IRC is, well, passé these days, it seems. But why not add another channel to the back channel happenings, for instance, at NTC ? But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This actually sounds too good to be true. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays. The Sunrise.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 8:42 am I think the biggest pain point that Twitter has is getting people to start using it.

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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. Call them organizational processes, but boy, do I think that is a non-starter!

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. If LocalFreeWeb sounds familiar, it's because this service for finding free Internet access was at the previous Caravan breakfast. Referral Services. LocalFreeWeb. Helpful Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. Generation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Here are a few ways that developers and product managers can think about making existing sites and applications more accessible: Understanding basic accessibility - " Unfortunately, not much of the population understands that people who are visually impaired can use the internet just as well as sighted indivduals can, including web developers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. Tech alone will not be enough. Adding tech to a broken human system gets you to broken faster and cheaper. So far – sounds great. If we truly care, we need to listen to these voices.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” Sounds kind of un-American, doesn’t it? We’re getting very worried that our organization and the people we serve: people with print disabilities (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” Sounds kind of un-American, doesn’t it? Let’s Not Do This Stupid Thing, and Avoid Breaking the Internet. Except, we’re not pirates.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? at 9:47 am Actually, the truth with free and open source software is that it is indeed possible to get very good software without shareholder investment. But, hey, why not?

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JUNE 20, 2014

” Sounds pretty good. The Mifos X Platform is free open source cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." with sophisticated banking tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Sounds fun right? TransparencyCamp strengthened my own commitment to support President Obamas tech policy , but also strengthened my resolve to hold him and his administration accountable if they fall short. It’s a revolution full of energy, innovation and hope.

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