Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08 I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. at 12:13 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 robert guinto 04.19.08 And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It features concept de?nitions

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. The feed should stay the same. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { I’d recommend it to anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07 That, of course, can spread virally. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 Happy Thanksgiving!

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If you are engaging a web developer or in the middle of an RFP process for a new site, be sure that proposals include mobile friendliness in the project. Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets). www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. A great read for anyone who does development for clients.

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JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 at 10:43 am I think there’s a typo/error in the Clickz quote (which comes from the original). 2 admin 06.11.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I like JP’s take on the development side of nonprofit issues. My tip: Allow non-registered users to comment – I imagine you’d get more comments that way. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Researchers at MIT have developed a program called Scratch , which is a unique way to help students learn to program. With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. But then, you own it – you can do much more. at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It’s aimed primarily at developers. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 soon, once I finish catching up. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 All-in-one. 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { Be Helpful.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Develop a sense of community on the website. Open source. Here are some examples of categories and how they might be implemented within a website: Show – Recent Tweets, Likes, Comments. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments. Open Source – API. Create on-site engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. of them have open APIs (that is, they allow other software to interact with them, and grab data, or add data,) they aren’t really interoperable (see Marshall Kirkpatricks excellent post on issues regarding Yahoo and del.icio.us Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 I think it might be better not to start at all. Or whatever.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. A few comments over at Kikono too. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 For others, the concept of ???public

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2009

Click2Call, a new online tool that the folks at web development firm Advomatic have built on Drupal’s open-source software platform, is the latest indication that patch-through call campaigns may finally be ready for prime time. Let us know in the comments below, so we can learn from your successes (or mistakes)!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. Jon's comments on plone comments. is still relevant.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Open fundamentally changes the way we approach everything we do. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Tis the Season These sites may not be of interest to participants of " Buy Nothing Day ," on November 23, but what better way to feed your consumer urges and desire to good by shopping for charity! Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !)

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MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The key to growing your online communities is through growing your social capital. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They sometimes deal with vendors and developers that don’t really understand their mission, don’t speak their language, and don’t tell them the truth (whether intentionally, or by a lack of self-examination.) I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. {

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