Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one. But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. In the process of going deep into those CRMs, I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits might choose CRMs to begin with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Machinima with Issues Engaging and provocative uses of machinima as art, advocacy, and evidence will be presented and discussed. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel. Check this out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. That bothered me a bit – they are totally different issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

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