Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Movable Type goes Open Source December 13, 2007 This is old news, sort of. This blog (and my personal blog ) were on TypePad for years, and I rather like the MoveableType interface and feature set.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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JULY 15, 2007

I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. I’d recommend it to anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. It’s definitely worth a listen. There is a part two coming, I understand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial. 3 trackbacks } Open Web APIs, Google’s Open Social and you « The Whole Enchilada 11.01.07 at 1:15 pm Open Social ! This is getting really interesting! {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog?

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