Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

A ways back, Six Apart promised that it would open source MovableType , their flagship software product, and the software that underlies their TypePad service. This blog (and my personal blog ) were on TypePad for years, and I rather like the MoveableType interface and feature set. Yesterday, they finally released it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW! Is this typepad? at 10:46 am It is not typepad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. One of the many inspiring things he shared in his talk was the phrase: “ You can have a job, career, or calling.&# It resonated. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. 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 1, 2007

Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial. Anyway, OpenSocial is something I’ll be watching, playing with, and writing about as time goes on, and considering what it means for those of us in this sector. at 1:15 pm Open Social !

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