Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. .&# It resonated. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

It seems cool, and a great alternative to freconference.com. And it’s free, too. Asterisk made it possible for the company to provide this service without huge infrastructure costs. I look forward to seeing more of what kinds of new and interesting tools can be powered by Asterisk under the hood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. {

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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. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mastodon: A Twitter alternative , but even with all the chaos of the Elon Musk takeover, any Twitter alternative will struggle. A viable Twitter alternative will need to attract a wide variety of individuals and brands that can co-exist online with minimal content moderation. BackLinkO ]. 9) Stay current on online privacy law.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 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

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. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 2:44 am Speaking about Open Source SaaS, I think people do not think of it as about being able to tinker with ‘open source codes’ but more about lower cost of obtaining the tools simple enough to be efficient for the users as against the pricey proprietary alternatives. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you don’t have it in your budget to hire a professional to shoot your video for you, think of alternatives to get your message across, use animations, a slideshow, illustrations, or edit in other pre-recorded footage. As we all know, people do not have very long attention spans on the internet. Share your video!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ. While more and more people are creating their own media thanks to the internet, there’s an unfortunate paradox in media creation in the physical, local world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Also, when the range of your security evaluations extends from “good&# to “excellent&# without characterizing what’s worse than “good,&# I don’t have any alternative but to treat “good&# as the worst on your spectrum. Saying “everyone gets an ‘A’!&#

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

By raising money on the internet, you can keep all of your donors safe and expand your reach beyond your current donor base. Provide online entertainment in the form of an online silent disco with multiple livestreams from different DJs playing holiday music that your attendees can switch between. Online fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

I would tell organizations that anytime they are using the Internet they are accessing the “cloud.” Sam Chenkin: I’m not sure I have a favorite nonprofit technology resource but I’d recommend that anyone with a tiny bit of interest in the technical underpinnings of the Internet check out the ArsTechnica.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The fact that nine manufacturers are currently developing iPad alternatives is evidence that the industry is taking this tablet thing pretty seriously. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy Tips & Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

I think here will come a day when 5-10 great open source CRM alternatives, each of which integrates nicely with your CMS of choice, will become a reality. This puts so much value out of private hands and into the commons — which is fantastic! Next step — CRM.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

When I found that this service was on the internet, I was excited to be able to attend via internet. Not to mention that this service was a total knockout of amazing musical performances, prayers and wisdom. … – Eliana. This is the second year I follow you all on internet, I live in Bahrain (M.East). Carolyn Lawley.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to be able to implement CRM/Fundraising solutions (or any software solutions, for that matter) that cannot be taken away from them, or have the terms under which they use them change without their control or consent, there have to be open source alternatives.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The alternative would be to use 1.1 I mean, sure, it’s generated code. Sure, it’s cake 1.2x (which never seems to get out of RC) but well. 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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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

But recently I’ve become obsessed with a new kind of (internet) radio station, one that’s converted me back from my CDs to the radio. You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. new to me and b.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

(it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. The lite version is a free online tool that allows you to add titles and music to a succession of photos, and the effect is incredible. TechSoup Canada: Adobe Alternatives: Graphic Editing & Publishing Software.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

The basic idea is to bring together a combination of a green economy trade show with about four hundred green economy companies, and a conference on the green economy with about a hundred speakers, and then we have live music all day long, everything from hip hop to bluegrass. I do this seven days a week. I have this detailed critique.

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