Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

A while ago, when I was still developing web applications, I wrote a wiki plug-in for this behemothic open source CMS/Web database system that I wrote, and has (mercifully) died a slow death (there are still a few installations of it in use, hopefully soon to be retired.) There is a DokuWiki plugin available. Updating it to Creole 1.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. It is a great blogging tool. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more.

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