Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And I also struggled with the consulting business model. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 &# I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features. But that was a pale shadow of the kind of work and contact I wanted with my clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Is there a business model that will make this work? I’m really not sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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