Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, or a do-good business that would like to sponsor the show, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com *Show notes* I mentioned in the intro that I was first introduced to Will's work in FRESH the Movie , which came out in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

at 12:10 pm It doesn’t freak you out that: * Chase’s website runs on IIS? Even the big guys, with big budgets, mess up sometimes… It also means at least these guys are running windows. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 12.16.06 Chase’s QA/QC can miss something like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. 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? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI ( Nonprofit Open Source Initiative ) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.) That’s a good thing.

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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. If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. which, I must say, rocks.

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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. 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 31, 2008

Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). But I guess it might be useful for some. 3 Jill 01.31.08 at 7:41 pm A couple of interesting things about Yugma. I’ve used that alot. Give it a try.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? I hear that all of the “ cool chix &# use Drupal, though (Linuxchix is about to launch it’s new Drupal-based website.) I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

After a few hours (as opposed to the few minutes it would take now) we configured that server to hold a website and serve email. We set up a little box in the corner of my office, and loaded several piles of floppies containing the Slackware distribution onto this box. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But from my perspective, working with organizations that are sometimes having a hard time moving from a static website to a CMS, social networks in general, and twitter specifically, are a long way away. 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. Websites shouldn’t. Actually, they don’t even have a website. It’s not so much about depth and breadth, although that certainly can be a part of it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)? I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. mathew [link] 2 admin 01.15.09 at 12:43 pm Just wait for my follow up posts!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. { 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

If a website is the hub or an organization’s activity (a big if) then does it necessarily follow that just because the masses go there the organization best serves my needs? I could easily take the “website stats are private&# argument and easily overlay them with every nonprofit exec’s resistance to adoption of social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

in fact, cutting and pasting from their website they offer: * Two-way audio * Interactive whiteboard * Direct messaging * Application sharing * File transfer * Synchronized web tour * Live webcam * Breakout rooms The only problem I encountered is that video transmission is only supported for Windows and Mac – not Linux/Unix.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

of nonprofit organizations whose website is stuck behind a custom CMS – one that was written by some web development shop or another, and migration off of that custom CMS is going to be a nightmare. at 12:43 pm We are in the process of finding someone who can help us “migrate&# our website to a functioning CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Frameworks all look fantastic from their websites’ testimonials and feature list. The alternative would be to use 1.1 which is stable but has stuff like ‘you’re limited to one validator per model.’ ’ More than a rant (although this is a rant) this is intended as mini-cautionary tale.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

One of the most common problems that someone who has built websites has, is the client calls up, and says “the website is down&#. And you hurriedly go to your browser, and, voila, the website isn’t down. So now you take them through all of the steps to figure out why it was they can’t see their own website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

You’re not the only person that doesn’t like to share their Google ID and password with other websites. We’ve seen a lot of activity from non-profits and we’re excited that we can help! This secure approach was created by Google exactly for this purpose.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So check that out of you’re interested, if you never heard of us, got all kinds of good stuff on our website. Who gets to be involved in consultation? I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009. But if you’ve never heard of us beyond the webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

But private social networks have their place, and can provide a compellingly interesting platform for our nonprofit standard “members only&# websites. People are getting more and more used to social networks as the vehicle for connecting to others, and this is one way to provide this in a private setting. { 2 Cathy Garland 09.12.08

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

I agree regarding music. Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Permalink Steve Bridger wrote: Happy New Year to you, too Louise! Monday, January 5, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink Stuart G Hall wrote: Like the 5 a day meme, thanks. Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 11:04 am | Permalink iHanna wrote: Very inspiring list! Lucky chap.

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