Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore.

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Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. It was great to get out of the office together and see the good work being done with technology and nonprofits right here in Portland. Electronics that live to see another day are given back to the community or sold in Free Geek’s thrift store.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Happy Birthday, Gutsy Gibbon! October 18, 2007 Ubuntu Linux has a new release, version 7.10, called “ Gutsy Gibbon.&# (Really I don’t know where these names come from!) Be Helpful.

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MAY 6, 2011

In the relatively rare case where I need to use HTML/CSS for web pages (there are a few legacy sites I maintain for friends) I use Bluefish (on Ubuntu.). They give free accounts to nonprofits. The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!).

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10

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MARCH 14, 2011

The problem is that the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat) don’t yet have MariaDB in their repositories, so it will be a while before MariaDB is an easy apt-get or yum away from installation (there are some independent repositories and builds.). MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL!

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago. But at least with Mactel, it looks shiny!

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MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu?

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CauseVox

MAY 20, 2022

With the majority of nonprofit website traffic coming from users browsing on mobile devices , a mobile-friendly donation page should make giving from any device a seamless and enjoyable experience. When people can conceptualize the impact of their gift with specific outputs, average contributions increase by 12%. Mobile-optimized.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online. When was that?

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JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? 2 trackbacks } What software freedom means to me » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.25.08 I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. 3 Seth Schneider 06.24.08

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MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Be Helpful.

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JULY 15, 2007

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. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year. Be Helpful.

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 at 9:41 pm Linux desktops? 4 admin 03.01.08

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JULY 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The only person I recall doing video work on Open Source is James Davis who did this screencast with Ubuntu and wrote a post about it. I saw a post about nonprofits and video use here , but not much mention of open source tools. Philosophically I support open source and free software, but I wonder if there is a userbase.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. I want email; I want filesharing; I want CRM functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

Computers that now run Windows 2000 (there are plenty of them in nonprofit offices, I’m sure) probably can’t even run XP, let alone Vista. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version). I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied Technology Links (only a little zen) October 19, 2006 For you Windows types, IE 7 is out , and they found a vulerability 24 hours after release. Get Ubuntu , and have done already.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. of Internet visits.

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