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. And, as a member of the NTEN board, I’m really proud of what’s been accomplished.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right?

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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. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source.

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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

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. Her first term on the NTEN Board runs through Spring 2017. Here’s my conversation with Gayle on her new appointment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context.

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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

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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? Register: Registration is not yet open.

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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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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. Some excellent resources emerged from this discussion, so I thought I'd share highlights here and invite you to join the conversation on the NTEN Discuss list. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.

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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?), But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. Seesmic is also getting a lot of buzz, certainly in the “twitterverse,&# but also elsewhere. It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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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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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? This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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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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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. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. If the data can contribute to the conversation, share it. It's another thing for NTEN to lead in this area. Although I think we're a fairly open organization, we have a long way to go. (If

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Third, I want to invite people to participate in a conversation about how this could be done differently. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. Thanks for starting the conversation, Michelle.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

We've found that pledging a little bit at a time and not asking anyone to change their behavior leads to some fairly excellent conversion rates to payment (80%+) and to recurring pledges (45%). I've heard that conversion rates to payment are sometimes not high, and there are few built-in incentives to continue giving or interacting.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2011

But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world. They definitely sparked a conversation (or two)! Treesaver is a new, open source web platform that uses HTML5 to create narrative experiences with text, words, and pictures. Have more news to share?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Sometimes, even with larger providers, they manage to get around this by having detailed logs of conversations with you. Usually, of course, with the huge technology providers, that sort of thing isn’t possible. But with smaller providers it certainly is. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. Allan Benamer put together an NpTech version of Digg, using open source software called Pligg combined with a Yahoo Pipe of the Nptech feed.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Tags: CMS Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning steve backman Web Sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

They'd have to pick up the phone or send letters, or have the topic come up in conversation, to spread your good word. . It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Katrin Verclas, founder and editor-in-chief of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins. Please join the conversation We want this to be your site, too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. IT Adoption among Nonprofits" by Paul-Brian McInerney (who is an editor for the forthcoming NTEN and Gilbert Center "Journal for ICT in Social Change Organizations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond.

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