Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link].

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. And then, we want the kitchen sink.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2009

We had a fabulous (and quite large) nptech/progressive exchange/community organizing BoF. I’m psyched to be working with Drupal more intensely (I’ve got 4 Drupal projects going at the present moment.) Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. NIDA is a partner with Khmer Open Source Project , an Open Source Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions for software applications and operating system , a Linux SuSE 9.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. re working with???something For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NpTech Community. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. ” For Jason, his motivation for the work is largely personal, though.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I’ve been working with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) for more than 5 years. In addition, I’ve worked with Aspiration a lot in the past few years as well. It is a great pleasure for me to announce that NOSI is becoming a project of Aspiration, and I am re-joining the board of Aspiration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

For the last few months, I have been working on a new collaboration called OpenIssue , which is a growing, diverse, self-reflective and constantly-learning team. And I’m really excited by the set of technologies we’re working on, and the kinds of applications we’ll be building with these technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works. Advanced Theming Techniques - A nice talk given by two folks from CivicActions, once of whom I’d worked with jointly on a client project. I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. It isn’t perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. ” For Jason, his motivation for the work is largely personal, though.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. So we’ll see how it works. I’ll keep you posted. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. Marnie Webb also points to this post. What's Hiafux ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. stickiness???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

First, some of you might know that the new version of the NOSI primer has been in the works. It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg.

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