Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. So we’ll see how it works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An "effective" video can be a number of things depending on what an organization's intent was in creating video content. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Pretty presentation with no content is useless. And I’ve come to understand what I value about some development shops, and what I don’t value about others. I like proposals that focus more on the project, and show clear understanding of the project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. would all be free (libre).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 02.08.08 It’s time for change to happen!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. By Andy Welkley : Peer to Peer Commentator, Serial ‘Couch to 5K’ participant, Dad, Ravenous consumer of content. Movie lover & Tech geek. I help non-profits w/ tech., Managing Editor @Blackbaud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments. First, there’s the blogging issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07 sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content. Um, sorta.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. All comments are publicly viewable here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 Joomla is great for a website CMS – it’s great for categorized content, multiple levels of menus, granular control of layout of content, etc. It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2010

How do nonprofits get so awesome at creating web content and building fans and communities online? Please stop by his post , or here, and leave your comments about how the NTEN community can keep the spirit alive 365! Congratulations! Did we miss anyone? Let me know!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget. The best way to grow fans is to post compelling content regularly. By far, the most compelling content is anything that sparks conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing. And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 I thought of your recent discussion of open content in journals, but wasn’t sure what post to add the link to. .&# at 7:01 am John, Thanks for your kind words, commenting, and reading. Thanks for blogging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Niche content. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. User generated content - Web 2.0 They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

access related text, images, audio, and other content from. databases (of music, books, and movies, respectively) they own or would. Please share your thoughts in the comments below. African-American history mobile tour uses GPS technology to pinpoint historically relevant campus sites nearby. Mobile tour users can then.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Internet has proven an invaluable way to access and create content (which becomes part of big data ). Data are everything - names, addresses, documents, images, music, video - and we feel the need to take it with us. However, it now widely recognized as a vital for storing such data as well (in the c loud).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own websites, blogs, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. 10) Hybrid concerts. 11) Live entertainment. 20) Book club.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 What content does the best? The marketing people use them to improve strategies, the tech people use them to find broken stuff, the management selectively uses them to build external support, etc. Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. {

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure. Please comment below. What they said may surprise you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

One of the authors of the study commented, " This suggests that even making really small changes in how one spends money can make a difference for happiness." But if you give them something to give to someone ELSE, then your content spreads, packaged in a bundle of goodwill. 1: kid gives gift to grandma (and both are happy).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. This comment is for Michael.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ro 05.30.08 Probably not that well, because I think we’re still about 6 months away from Wordpress being an out-of-the-box CMS — a bit too much tweakery is still required, especially with regards to category-smart dynamic inline content. Next step — CRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Looking forward to more comments and posts in this vein. As I keep thinking more about this, I’ll be blogging about it. Mitchell 04.08.07

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