Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I use them a lot, both for work as well as for personal use. The only way we’re going to get out of this cycle is to channel this energy and resources into open software (including “open&# source apps for proprietary web services), open standards, and open networks – things no one can take away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Eric Leland is the first person to introduce themselves! Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The main reason it works is that you get to see how your donation was spent, you get photos from the classroom, and you get a personal reply from the teacher or students. Tags: challenge fundraising donorschoose interview social media socialbrite video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

" Interesting site from NRDC called " itsyournature.org " An article about new features coming from social network sites that will prevent your personal and professional life colliding and resulting in embarrassment. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It’s a wonderful opportunity for our community to share our collective wisdom with inspiring stories and practical tools that help women professionally and personally and of course, change the world. Tags: community events conference event technology women wwt. Check out these awesome panels and sign up today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

So the lessons: 1) If you are embarking on a custom development project (such as a case management, for example) exhaust every possible option of using and customizing/modifying existing tools (Salesforce, CiviCRM, SugarCRM, other open source tools) before you begin to consider custom development from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." This is a really interesting analysis of Social Networking/Online Community behaviors or personalities based roughly on Myers-Briggs. It's recently been updated.

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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. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. It was a great talk by an incredibly enthusiastic speaker. It was a great introduction, and I’m totally sold on it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

It’s OK to use your personal mobile number because TextMarks Lite will not text or call you, but I am big believer that nonprofit communicators should be writing smartphones for key communications and development staff into to next year’s budget. Tags: Mobile Technology Text Messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

But there is another very important personal reason to purchase the book on June 21st, I’m donating all of the proceeds from my share of the royalties to the Sharing Foundation , a nonprofit that cares for orphans in Cambodia. Tags: Housekeeping Networked Nonprofit. See on you June 21st 1 PDT/4 EDT!

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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. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

This is, for sure, one of the most robust open source CMS to CRM integrations out there, and one that seems to be getting pretty close to providing very powerful integration “out-of-the-box&# - instead of having to piece things together and do customized code, which is more common than not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There were a lot of things you could do, including accept donations, track personal donation pages, and the like. The big kicker, pretty much as always with Blackbaud, is the price tag. Expect a $35-45K price tag for development and integration. Their SaaS offering, NC Grow has a $20K/year price tag. More on those later.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). Tags: storytelling. Here's what I love about the internet. Don't let me rule the interview.

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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 ). Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools. " NetSquared Up Close and Personal.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the user/manager and executive are the same person. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Often, the engineer role is filled by an outside developer, consultant, or firm.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! And if you???re

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

By Nancy Lublin, CEO and Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org. But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. If I had a crystal ball.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. Working with people from afar is not the same as being in-person, so developing practices that are effective in team management is a must. Because it must!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 This is actually something I struggle with on a personal level, so I can relate to it operating in organizations. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Here are some tips that the authors recommend: Hide your personal folders. TrueCrypt is a free and open-source tool that makes it relatively easy to encrypt your data, using encrypted volumes. Tags: Hardware Physical Security Security. Therefore you must prepare for the worst case scenarios.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Interestingly, the conference was actually the first time Charles and Marina had met in person. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Open Source Services Spotlight Volunteers. Charles Tsai and Marina Mansilla have spent the past year working with inventors from all around the world between the ages of 16 and 25.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) There isn’t much work to be done by you, or by the person who implements it for you, unless you want to do customizations, and expose CRM data in new and interesting ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Profiles: Personalized user profiles with ability to import contacts from Outlook. Profiles: Profiles which can be personalized. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Hosting: Online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

And tag your posts so more people can find them – they are gold. Technorati Tags: npblogtipping , nptech , blogtipping { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.03.07 I’m enjoying finding ways to integrate tech and personal/organizational development, and I’ll look to do more of that in my writing. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum. Women and Open Source. It's a wonderful opportunity for our community to share our collective wisdom with inspiring stories and practical tools that help women grow professionally and personally -- and, of course, change the world. > Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT.

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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. Peter Dietz is promoting the use of "sa-topten" tag in del.icio.us to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Chrome hasn't officially been released to public yet, but recently Google officially made the operating system open-source. This is key, we want all of personal computing to work this way. My response was a bemused "Yeah right," but it turns out there was some truth to it. There are no native applications.

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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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