Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks?

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In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? How do you appropriately implement them? And how do you check results? Adrienne D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. It seems in a business sense, to be a brilliant move.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. Lots happening! I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference. And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# What do you think? Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. .&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They also have, at this point, no community. at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point. It isn’t a perfect Open Source community style, but it is a step in the proper direction. Not at all in alignment with the open source ethic. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. technologies for knowledge sharing???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Most nonprofits haven’t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

The fourth, and very interesting development, is the relationships that have been developing between nonprofit-focused technology providers of all stripes and open source developer communities (at this point, primarily CMS projects.) And so the feedback cycle keeps going. This may be where the gift economy rubber meets the road.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit How To’s @ This Week’s Carnival 09.26.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

In order to pull off this event, we need not only need enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers, but strong local partners who serve as our bridge to the local community of nonprofits. In the early days, the event offered a small selection of consulting, on-site training, or actual hardware or local area network auditing projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Even if they do, the cost to implement is never trivial, and requires investment in consultant fees that typically dwarf the cost of using a SaaS solution, or even purchasing a traditional installed solution (such as our desktop version of DonorPerfect, or other installed packages such as Exceed, Sage, etc.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. I do disagree with you about the commercialization of the Joomla community, though. But at least the first technical hurdle to jump over is a small one. Joomla is growing fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Client-(pc-only) server?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. Also, we have been accused in creating a biased survey.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

This blog post was authored by Evonne Heyning, interactive media producer with TechSoup's community and social media team. Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership.

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MAY 20, 2008

The Solution: Using Blackbaud® NetCommunity ™, designers and consultants from Blackbaud Interactive™ worked with the development staff from BFC to create a new site that would better reflect the organization’s image, raise awareness, and engage constituents in a variety of ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton. is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution. They have mentorship programs, they are building regional networks, they have almost unparalleled bulletin board, email and IRC community support.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

For some nonprofits, this means that financial statements misrepresent the depth of effort and the breadth of support for services to clients, customers, and the community. Well, to the rescue comes the work of Dr. Laurie Mook, an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Community Resources and Development. school consultants.

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