Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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!) Be Helpful.

NTEN 100

NTEN Open Source RSS Director 100

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.

Mediawiki 100

Mediawiki Open Source RSS Tech 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

Technology 100

Technology Open Source Nptech Technorati 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. I’m made comfortable by folks who speak what I think of as a good mix of development-speak and normal language. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed. Be Helpful.

Open Source 100

Open Source RSS Consultant Tech 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. But the community blogs do provide a way for a wider audience to read the content that I have created. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content.

Web 100

Web Stumbleupon Ubuntu Open Source 100

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!&# Wanna know what I’m doing?

Channel 100

Channel Twitter Data Open Source 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Momentum is building.

Nptech 50

Nptech PDF Conference Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki.

Convio 50

Convio API Nptech Summary 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

Consultant 100

Consultant Widget Open Source Nonprofit 100

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.) To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility.

Integration 100

Integration Drupal API Open Source 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTC 2007 Pipe.

NTC 50

NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members Open Source.

NTEN 36

NTEN Open Source Drupal Austin 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. So doesn’t the metaphor used for that software matter, then, in a nonprofit setting? Be Helpful.

Open Source 100

Open Source Software Profit Tech 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. A Few NpTech Conversations. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. online community.

Knowledge 60

Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. functionality. or more like web 1.0?)

Summary 50

Summary Conversation Wiki California 50

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. applications have changed the rules of online community. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ?

Summary 50

Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

API 28

API Convio Social Media Open 28

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. ” To be fair, Causes describes the acquisition as a new chapter for the Causes community. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." NPTech Organization of the Month. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

News 65

News Charity Causes Facebook 65

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. I have been a champion of openness of all sorts, including such things as open licenses and the destructiveness of DRM, in panel after panel in the nonprofit tech community for a decade.

Journal 100

Journal Change License Model 100

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

There’s lots of intriguing green NPTech news this month. 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. After someone reports a dumpsite, it sets in motion a community effort to deal with the problem. Recycling.

Green 57

Green News Issue Technology 57

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) has also released a few more drupal integration modules.

Drupal 100

Drupal Open Source API Synchronous 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { I think Web 2.0,

Web 100

Web Folksonomy AJAX Hype 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. Slides are available in the NpTech group in Slideshare. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

Nptech 50

Nptech Summary Adopt Tag 50