Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. If it makes you feel any better – I feel your pain too. We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. And it’s hard. That’s also REALLY hard. I guess having values is just kind of tough.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. .&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. Catherine 4 Beth Kanter 04.13.07

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APRIL 3, 2009

Though I think Plone’s developers are conscientious about security, it’s really Zope’s security model that keeps add-on developers from routinely shooting everyone in the foot. They need a stack that makes it very hard to make the most common mistakes. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

That's because Michelle was in the Science Building on one end of campus, while I in the Music Building way on the other side. Like many of us out there, you work as an independent consultant - so you are paid for your expertise and knowledge. Here's my interview: 1. Is there a downside to gift economies?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Well in San Francisco, people are pretty lucky because there is a good amount of training and resources out here: there's a compost educator gardening training that you can do. So you could actually learn, it's one of the few non-profits that trains people in how to teach others about gardening and composting.

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We asked arts administrator and consultant Aubrey Bergauer to make a few predictions on what this will look like for arts organizations, their marketing efforts, patron engagement, and internal structure and processes. The second change we’ll see, or at least a change I encourage, is a hybrid model of in person product and streaming product.

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Positive Education Program is a unique organization, originally created as a consultant to area school districts to help them serve their most challenging students. cool campaign currently featured on their webpage involves selling raffle tickets to win two seats at a showing the the acclaimed Broadway musical, Hamilton!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Which is more appealing to tell people that they are on the Titanic and it is sinking, or to sail by in a boat that is green, with great food and fun music and ask them to come on board. When he recruits he uses a "low touch, high value" model. Trainings are 1 hour at 10 AM on Saturdays. He used the metaphor of the Titanic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Simply put: we don’t make any assumptions about how you’re modeling your data, we just let you grab it as you need to. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's a youth entrepreneurship and agriculture training for young people, trying to build their capacity as leaders in the community, with a specific focus on being entrepreneurs, using business as a solution both to their economic need, locally, but for their social needs as well. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

There’s also that you can’t easily paginate multiple models in a single page. Paginating those 2 is a different story since by default the parameters that specify the page you’re in do not distinguish which model you need to paginate. You can’t tell it, I need a join here. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Is there a business model that will make this work? I’m really not sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Should we be able to achieve a migration to drupal or one of the other open-source models? It’s also the time for web developers to let their babies go, and start building their business on a well-developed CMS. Hint: I hear there is way more Drupal demand than supply of expertise. ) { 1 trackback } Idealware 03.16.10 2 admin 02.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

And there are other models – SugarCRM is a model of a for-profit company that has a community version – so more people can contribute and benefit from their software. In fact, many, many successful, usable, high quality software projects are not backed by shareholder investment at all.

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JANUARY 24, 2007

Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. So in this new space that we are going to be moving into, we want to create events where, musical events, or poetry events, or art events, and have Numi really be that space where people can express themselves, and just sort of be heard, and share their creativity. They are amazing.

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And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Who gets to be involved in consultation? Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. The next thing, I want you to assess before you act.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The old hands see their models sifting away from them like sand running through their fingers; holding on is the impulse, but it’s not really an option. 2 Richard Bell 12.08.08 at 10:38 pm I ran John Kerry’s blogsite in the 2004 election campaign.

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