Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Amazon and Barnes and Noble were all geared up for a big fight, until a number of things happened to change the equation. All other readers have tiny market share in comparison to both of those players. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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eBook Music Amazon Google 191

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

This most inspiring case study on cyberstrategy was about how to change the culture of the prison from penal to rehabilitative using a network of computer labs linked to FM radio. If you could change the culture of prisons, you could change the culture of the country? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia.

Jamaica 50

Jamaica National Develop Wikipedia 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Open Source Open API Software 100