Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# So, come join me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. at 2:30 pm Great breaking np tech news. at 8:22 pm Writing a Donation tracking CRM on top of Salesforce? This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Click and Pledge, a company that does SaaS for nonprofits, released a new product, called “Trio&#. This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Trio is an integration of SugarCRM, Joomla, and a credit card payment system.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Various Learning Types: LXPs can deliver a variety of learning experiences, including instructor-led training, blended learning, learning games, microlearning courses, multi-module courses, social learning, and more. On one hand, LMSs are: Focused on administering training and assessments. Driven by the organization itself.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { Marketing Deviant has an interesting post about having a color dress code for your business. Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes. at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The first set of modules, on the “Strategic Track&# are already done. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We introduced new formats and new readers to give users not only what they want, but also a choice in how and where they want it. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. The news that this is the largest accessible Arabic book collection in the world is bittersweet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Yeah, it’s fun that there is a great mix of people that I can keep track of (and they can keep track of me) – that’s the part of the equation that’s hard to find elsewhere. 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

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. I joined Spokeo. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I would love to see more dialog that helps us understand how to make the bridge and to track the evolution of the less-techy population so we can push the envelope a bit but not too much. Also, I am thinking about the need to train target markets how to use some of the social marketing tools like Twitter. 5 Erin 04.30.08

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. By opening up one set of figures you are giving the world a skewed interpretation of the success of a mission. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we demanded that a basic low cost connection and computer and training were available to every Aussie who wanted it like the telephone? Every local news station showed up. News coverage is a major driver of giving. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program. How do you track your subscribers?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Here’s the bad news: This is not a step that can be avoided! Now for the goods news: We’re to help!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What do you track? Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowds Can Not Be Trained Like Seals by Beth Kanter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.)

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ghost : Many folks who have moved off Substack have gone to Ghost which is an open-source platform with similar functionality. What I’m Reading by Phil Lewis – Phil is a reporter based in Detroit whose Substack newsletter shares engaging and informative news stories about the Black experience in America.

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