Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

These span the range from tools I use every day or every week, to tools use more occasionally, but depend on. They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. SaaS Tools.

Tools 100

Tools Open Source Drupal Adobe 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

Ning 100

Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

They haven’t really started yet, but hopefully it will be an interesting place to watch OpenSocial Directory – a directory of the apps that already exist to use OpenSocial (talk about caffeine and pizza!) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

Social Network 100

Social Network Open Network Social 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What do these tools allow you to do? What do these tools allow you to do? Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. It combines all the academic features of a CMS and the learning tools found in an LMS with the networking tools of a secure social network and other Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, etc.).

Social Network 100

Social Network System Network Management 100