Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes. 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07

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JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. I’m starting to make a concerted effort to keep up, though.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful. How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? Anyway, I’ll have more to say about Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.) Sorry about the wonky RSS feed; I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet. She has a fabulous, and up to date blogroll/link list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 2 Michelle Murrain 03.19.07 at 5:45 pm Thanks, Michele.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links. Net Tuesday & 501 Tech Club Affinity Group Meeting. The Internet has a proven ability to shift the balance of power between individuals and organizations. How to follow along and connect: My blog will have live blog coverage and sessions notes. Sessions and Events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Heck, yeah, I could easily argue it will help them in their work. Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. That dog won’t hunt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. I think it might be better not to start at all. But it does require a lot of thought. Look at what organizations like yours are doing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. Generation.

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MARCH 13, 2009

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!" Panelist: Julie Barko Germany, Director, Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet 9.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. e-Newsletter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? How about options where investment feeds back and benefits everyone, instead of a few people? at 9:47 am Actually, the truth with free and open source software is that it is indeed possible to get very good software without shareholder investment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "The survey revealed the dramatic lack of trust Americans hold for sources of election news of all mediums.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. But he still manages to be a consistent source of online enviro info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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JULY 28, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. e-Newsletter [see right column].

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MARCH 8, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

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AUGUST 27, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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JUNE 3, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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