Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Why do we nptechies care? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? That was all. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. at 9:01 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Robin 03.16.08

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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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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. Comments? {

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08 Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 01.21.08 Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Preparing for and delivering a webinar isn't something most librarians spend their days doing, so we are especially grateful to our speakers for this gift of sharing what they've learned about open-source software over the last 10 years. You can join in by posting additional questions or your own answers or comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 01.17.08 2 sandrar 09.10.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. I’m sure that Four Kitchens, and most open source software developers agree with that perspective. More on that in a bit. But Plone was just that much better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { 1 trackback } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit How To’s @ This Week’s Carnival 09.26.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 7 admin 04.07.09

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

at last week's NTC conference in Washington, a woman took the microphone to comment on a conundrum her non-profit is facing. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. At a session on Web2.0

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See3

APRIL 28, 2009

Leading provider of online fundraising, education and advocacy for nonprofits partners with the first open-source video platform. That they are open source is a huge added benefit to our clients and the greater nonprofit community.&#. As an open source platform, Kaltura is unique among online video solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. Perhaps you can tell me in comments. For the curious (well, OK, it was mostly me who was curious): There are 409 posts and 922 comments. Was this blog a success? I don’t know how to answer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 19, 2014

My comments were based on the recent HuffPo op-ed authored by Enrique Piracés and me, entitled Human Rights and the Duty to Protect Sensitive Data. TED2014 attendees were asked to reflect on their reactions to the Snowden appearance on stage. And, this responsibility extends to far more software developers today than we thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2005

The Khmer Open Source Software project has a blog community. " Have some thoughts or advice, the thread is in English so stop by and comment. One of the recent topics being discussed is: " What is the best Linux distribution for Cambodia ?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

Lobo’s comment on my post yesterday prompted me to complete this blog entry that I’ve been ruminating on for a while. Truth is, it wasn’t really a choice for me – I’ve got using and contributing back to open source projects in my DNA somehow.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Share your thoughts in the comments below … If you’re a nonprofit who has some idea of how you measure up to the below I’d LOVE to hear from you. Open Source Software Takes Over #1 Spot for House Social Networks. Two particular insights seem to be making the rounds initially.

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