Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Myspace is going with OpenID ! Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? .&# Well, I already trust them, so I joined them. I then decided, why not – let’s find out who else is on Spock.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. Nick Carr, one of my favorite smart dudes, calls it digital sharecropping : What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it. 6 Valorie Zimmerman 04.10.07

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