Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. In general, the phone actually works quite well. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." than my enthusiasm for technology. Much more interest driven, user-centric.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no I will be reading email, and answering my cell phone and texts, so you can still be in contact, if you wish (besides, I still need to make a living.) Blogging or reading Blogs. no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

I’m tired of apps and technologies that sure, solve a problem, but in order to do it you have to completely change the way you think or work. There are a few channels such as Date & Time, Phone, SMS or Email that aren’t tied to apps but are essential for some very helpful recipes. RSS is dead. Like condiments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Has Apple become evil? The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. What is Asterisk, you ask? Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { I think it will be a great time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For nonprofits, the ROI of e-newsletters translates into online dollars raised through “Donate Now&# technology, event attendees, website and blog traffic, and paradoxically new Followers, Fans, and Friends on social networking sites. Group text messaging could become the new email of the Mobile Web. years primarily using my website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Chrome September 4, 2008 The hiatus is over with a short entry about Google Chrome , the new browser from Google that I learned about on the twitterverse while I was stopped at one rest stop or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I also access Evernote on my Android phone. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite. Another important tool, which I use in my personal life as well as consulting life, is Evernote. Evernote rocks my world. It’s a great tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no I will be reading email, and answering my cell phone and texts, so you can still be in contact, if you wish (besides, I still need to make a living.) Blogging or reading Blogs. no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? This blog is rated 8.2 very good, they say) on Blogged.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Is it human (habits and skills) or machine (technology/software) or a combination of both? Technology Approaches. While Robert Scoble can spend the day scanning the new technology landscape , most of us who work in nonprofits can’t do that. It really helps. Balancing Connectedness With Solitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IPv6 September 29, 2006 So, this blog won’t be totally technology zen. It allowed for 4,294,967,296 addresses. So in comes IPv6, a different kind of addressing protocol.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.04.08 Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. You know why I started to twitter. 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It sometimes tastes yucky. One big one was my address book.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Taking a look at the ways technology companies have informed their users about product changes is instructive for nonprofits looking to announce big changes in a thoughtful way. Technology in Transition. Soon after Google acquired PostRank, a powerful RSS tool, without warning the service stopped accepting new accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Christian also sent me some links that answer an earlier question I've had, " How Can We Use Cell Phones to Bring Web 2.0 " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

And while I’m not someone who's hot and heavy on stuff exchange, I appreciate the value of gifts and want to encourage you to consider giving your loved ones the gift of technology this season. This evaluative quality is missing from the way most of us approach and absorb new technology. If not, we regift, hide, or lose them.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Reporting on a survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University of recruitment at 790 organizations, the article reports that non-profit organizations find recruiting technology staff particularly difficult. Mobile: An Open/Standards-based phone to debut. The company will be releasing their phone, the Neo1973, sometime in November.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Not too long ago, connections were forged outside of technological communications and maintained via sheer will. Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. 2 trackbacks } What software freedom means to me » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.25.08

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

On Sunday the Washington Post ran an interesting article about how the Amish and Menonite communities in Southern Maryland are adapting their general distrust of technology to the real business need for telephone access. As my coworker Krista says - "the phone ringing is an invitation, not a command.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. Comment Notification. Rebecca Muller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

So we opted for cell phones. Of course that's an extreme you can't play any audio with out electricity or batteries but cell phones are one of the worlds most ubiquitous technologies. or phone number: 612.374.8200. In some ways this may help with your question about podcasting without electricity. Art on Call.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How are technologies and social trends impacting your supporters? Are you currently using RSS Reader? You can read on the web or send messages to your phone or IM client. What are they saying about your organization? What do they think about your issue area? What do they like or dislike about your program or service?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 7, 2006

From time to time I'd be there when one of the folks working the phones would get an irate call from a customer who was ticked off about something. Still lost on the whole RSS thing? Every tech blog I know has, for at least two years, posted the occassional tutorial on how to use RSS to access information feeds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2009

Survey results will be presented at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference. Check out this OneWorld workshop on March 26th from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM at the Benton Foundation, which will discuss best practices on email communications, blogs, RSS feeds and social media and how to synchronize them.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Such is the mobile utopia described by Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. This encounter can be physical or virtual and the channel (in person, over the phone, email, webinar, etc.)

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" blurs the on-line/off-line boundary by extending network access to PDAs and cellular phones.

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