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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 Open-access is right. know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The date was sometime in 1995.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. And fine grained access control to what data goes through to which other individuals. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important. 2 admin 11.22.07

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

He talks about data “accessibility&# , “visibility&# , “removal&# and “ownership&# – all things that, to my mind, are components of data portability. I’m involved in the evangelism action group. .&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. ] By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0 Some of the team is dispursed, working virtually.

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JULY 9, 2007

I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It’s as good as Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 but not as good as the current Outlook Web Access product. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads. It was great.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. Joomla is growing fast.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense. But it needs addressing. {

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

It allows nonprofits free access to data that they would normally not have access to (like mapping data), or would have to pay a lot for. I think that APIs are an expression of the best of what the internet is about. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. And if nonprofits, in making their own Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org. and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

that are incredibly helpful, and provide things that really do connect people, and help people decide in a much more granular way what they want to read, and have access to. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. You make your own conclusions.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

But I think the larger question about folksonomies is important: is efficiency all there is, and in what ways are folksonomies a way for the “folks&# (rather than “experts&# ) to have access to the process of categorizing their own content, and content they care about? What do those guidelines look like?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Ehtan Zuckerman blogged this week on Nancy Hafkin Gender and IT about disparity in access to the Internet of women and girls. But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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MARCH 5, 2007

Verizon sales folk promise the moon, the tech guys explained I’m at the far end of dsl access. What kind of neighborhood do I live in? Non-deseving of dsl apparently. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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APRIL 18, 2007

So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. but inviting me by the email addy you know wont get me access to the spreadsheet you’re trying to share. I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Her posts are thoughtful and accessible for non-techies. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

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MAY 21, 2007

Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones. The next step was to get online. That’s the first snag. I had to go command line in order to get online.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

I think though, that even if technical requirements (protocols etc) are met, the other big challenge is to package it in a way accessible to mainstream users. Thanks for the clear, interesting posts – there’s not much about right now!

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AUGUST 17, 2007

I also looked at a system that The Gilbert Center has been using. Through our Partnership with the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, many nonprofits have access to rates as low as $.06 Some organizations who were not already members of NCNA have even joined their State Associations in order to gain access to these rates.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Our 990 is publicly accessible; you know how many people are in our online community at groups.nten.org; and we are committed to being accountable, so no skin off our back to publish most other data as well. No one disputes that.

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APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. maintaining systems or tools for which they didn???t 2008: How do I do it right? t know who can translate these things for our needs.??? t feel qualified. 2006: Why does it matter? 2007: What does it mean to my business?

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. SH: Open APIs allow nonprofits to bend systems to fit their particular needs. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 11, 2009

I wanted this to be a book that would appeal to people who are vegetarians, and who are vegans, but I also wanted it to appeal to omnivores, and really present it as a book that re-interprets, re-imagines, and remembers African-American cuisine, and makes it accessible for everyone, no matter what their diet is. Grub Project.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Rapidfire acquisition of smaller players so that you can wrap it up into a system of systems seems to be their strategy for now. Access, Excel, custom stuff, and a smattering of other vendor applications. It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. We will fill the void.

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