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Talking at the Politics Online Conference

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. Be Helpful.

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Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This means that the “big three&# nonprofit CRM/Fundraising/Advocacy vendors will all be publicly traded companies, and thus completely beholden to their shareholders to maximize profit. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? Convio has registered to go public. But, hey, why not?

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

cyber world becomes, instead of a bunch of walled gardens where data moves in only very limited ways between them, a fully permeable space where data flows freely, it will be possible for nonprofits to have much greater reach and impact, whether it be for fundraising, advocacy or constituency-building. { In the long term, if the whole web 2.0

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0 Be Helpful.

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Which is just fine.) Should this ED, and/or this organization have a blog? Be Helpful.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. We will also expand the number of books in our collection by 100,000 new titles. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students.

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