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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup." Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

The Internet has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to online nonprofit tech education. Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. You betcha! That’s what NetSquared Local is for!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

All of this software is free and much of it is open source. You can't do end-to-end encryption for everything, but you can encrypt a lot of your Internet traffic. When you have a conversation with a client, staff member, or volunteer, you want to ensure that it is completely confidential.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. I did feel that the vendors had a small tendency to indicate some concern about security when asked about openness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good. I need to figure out a good network configuration. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I just had a great conversation with a IT manager at a medium-sized nonprofit that had implemented Asterisk for their call center. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. ’&# I do think that is something that we have a hard time getting across to folks. It takes more, because you own your own system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on. There will be way more on this in later posts. 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Here's what I love about the internet. But back to my love of the internet. The internet gave me content, but then, it also gave me connection. In the meantime, please, post your questions that you'd like me to include in our conversation. I was planning to write a post today about the use of story in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.) Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Come chat with me about online communites, some of the topics of conversation may include: What have been some changes or issues recently with your online community? The Internet has a proven ability to shift the balance of power between individuals and organizations. Want to keep the conversation going? Monday, April 27.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), Ehtan Zuckerman blogged this week on Nancy Hafkin Gender and IT about disparity in access to the Internet of women and girls. But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? One of the potential uses of Twitter is as a “back channel&# for events and the like. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. This event has begun that real-time conversation between aid organizations and developers, and I hope over time together they can develop a regular rapport. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

In the pre-internet days, that meant engaging some REALLY invested people, because the barrier to entry for telling a friend was pretty high. They'd have to pick up the phone or send letters, or have the topic come up in conversation, to spread your good word. . social media nancy schwartz 09NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? How to engage people in valuable conversation?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2016, video will continue to be the most interesting media on the Internet. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. We're not talking about the race to expand Internet access in space here. This past year, U.S. Children love it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. Certain organizations will, if they have not already, use the internet for this purpose. No one in this conversation has their head in the Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

We want to be sure you have a game plan to make the most of your Science Fair time -- to get in all the conversations and demos you want AND to find all those giveaways. The Science Fair opens at 3 pm in the International Ballroom, check out the full exhibitor list on myNTC. thedatabank Nook ereader Trinet Internet Solutions, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. With snacks! Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

" I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond. You know, I'll have what she's having).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Today, the conversation has shifted towards making our websites accessible as a key requirement of the development process - for complex reasons and with complex benefits. Depending on a client's visual acuity, they not only use different media when accessing print (large print vs. Braille) but also use different software on the internet.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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