Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. So now, I have two bricks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0,

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog. You're doing it wrong if you're spending more time fixing laptops than focusing on strategy. We all know that technology moves quickly; they say that the half-life for most tech is six months. You're doing it wrong if you're not learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The Cambodian Bloggers Summit had wonderful laptop stickers! In the video above, Virak is placing laptop stickers on his laptop. After lunch, bloggers came back into the main meeting room. The clogger team got on stage with the bags of t-shirts and started to pull them out one-by-one. Like street hawkers. "Google?

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog. At the beginning of a fascinating (yet short) piece on privacy , Stowe Boyd quotes Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

This post and the wiki feature excerpts, bonus materials, and notes from the book which was compiled by NTEN of the same name. Their sub-$400 prices don't hurt the nonprofit as much as a normal laptop. Tags: Acquiring Technology Hardware Running Your Organization Tech Planning Technology Assessment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Has one of your volunteers, interns or tech-oriented employee developed a cool app? 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease. Many corporations lease their PCs and laptops, often over two years with a $1 buy-out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. [Ed. Because I spend all day, every day in front of a laptop tweeting about my Facebook links. Because I spend all day, every day in front of a laptop tweeting about my Facebook links. I live in a bubble -- a tech bubble. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. I was floored.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Welcome your new Penguin overlords ;-) 2 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. Upcoming speaking gigs I’ve done presentations on different tech topics at various meetings, Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# I knew that I should do it at some point, but I hadn’t encountered a WPA network until last week, so I hadn’t bothered. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I’m relatively happy, and, surprisingly enough, I don’t miss using the mac everyday. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. Anyway, as the bus rolls by, I see "PVTA_0333" come up on the MacStumbler, then leave! Yeah, really, really! It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. Maybe faster than we think. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. re working with???something

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Get another year out of laptops/software, etc. This may mean actually INVESTING in tech to reduce costs for business units. Look at the places where tech moves from the back office to the programs of your org. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. Then, evaluate joint IT/Business processes. IT is not a cost center.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

The plenary session on Saturday morning featured Moira Gunn, host of the weekly NPR show, Tech Nation. She went on to tell the story about how several biotechnology firms are moving their employees to mobile - the iPhone and the laptop. These companies have more iPhone apps than the iStore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. What looks good on a mobile device often looks even better on desktop and laptop computers, and all email marketing services offer responsive email templates. The open rate for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s welcome email is 62.1%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. Here is what a group of certified tech geeks thinks about the tablets on market. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom Amy Sample Ward, NTEN CEO. Twenty years ago, everyone brought pen and paper to meetings. We’ve done your homework for you.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. We sincerely invite your nonprofit or library tech news nominations. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. Anything I missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. There's also dogooder.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Here’s an example from nonprofit tech day at Microsoft in Seattle last year. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions. Working in Cohorts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) Check out Steve Dembo's Geek Toys that'll give you Geekbumps which includes the Give One Get One XO Laptop Campaign (hurry offer ends on November 30th) and a Chumby (hmm. A new entry into the charity shopping category , is MAATIAM. Now that you've shopped for good, what about for yourself?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A good social-media manager is a regular reader of Mashable , TechCrunch , Social Media Today , Social Times , Mobile Marketing Watch , All Facebook , About Foursquare , Nonprofit Tech 2.0 , Beth’s Blog , TechSoup , NTEN , and other such blogs. Mobile technology enables that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

For more information, check out the Tech Soup article, "Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS: Use RSS to Help Your Constituents Stay On Top of News and Announcements," and the Social Signal article, "Make Your Nonprofit More Effective with RSS Aggregation." Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Get to know other techs. 2) Get a wiki. . - be nice to your clients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. Both of them seem to be PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. The approaches are similar and different to each other.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Karl Hedstrom , NTEN. Every year at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), one of our major goals is to collect enough feedback from you, the attendees, to make our future conferences even better. Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. No, it's not yet another Apple rebranding of its laptop line. Read more posts on our blog. How much money do Americans give online, anyway ? It's been a good month for infographics, especially since we discovered the Tenniswood Blog.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Amy Sample Ward, CEO, NTEN. Having that ‘anytime, anywhere” component is really compelling, especially to executive directors who just won’t look at that stuff on nights or weekends because it’s too difficult to get to. – Patrick Callahan, Executive Director, Tech Impact. Mobile has quickly become the mainstream.

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