Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. In the commercial sector, the primary goal of personalization is to increase conversions and drive sales.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 9th).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Its back to basics: a web page with a text box. DeepSeek is open source, and other companies can host it. Its just a text box on a web page that lets you access the model on Nvidias fast servers. To start, just open the Deepseek-R1 page on Nvidias developer website . You truly need to try it yourself.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "Open source software exists in the computer industry. " What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 24th).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 11th).

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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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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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of March 23rd).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). Can it be demoted now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

David Wilcox has done a terrific job of summarizing this conversation thread recently on the UK Circuit Riders list, " Is Open Source Software Fair Trade for Nonprofits? " Are there ethical reasons for voluntary and community organisations to consider using Free and Open Source Software ?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Step 4: Validate ideas – improve conversion. Do you have a business idea keeping you awake at night?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We tried to think about how we could take this overwhelming number and steer the global conversation towards something about individuals. This milestone was a global event, so we knew that changing the conversation would be a challenge for a small nonprofit in Washington, D.C. We called the app “What’s Your Number?”

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. DeepL Voice for Conversations does the same thing, but for one-on-one conversations happening on mobile devices. So no conversions are necessary, making the models response time super-fast.

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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. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 I think given the audience that NOSI is reaching, and wants to reach, a concrete, well thought out Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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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

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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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. W hen you think of organizations and nonprofits that have made effective use of Web 2.0 Please support the SocialBrite team (or any other blogger) in the Social Media Challenge! Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving.

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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. Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Are Web statistics a matter of transparency.

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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.) Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. There will be way more on this in later posts. 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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Daily recap Daily.dev can be accessed through a number of channels , including a web app, Android , a progressive web app ( PWA ), and a browser extension. Anyone is free to bookmark threads, upvote posts of comments, and kickstart their own conversations. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Think of Blist as a really interesting combination of really pretty Excel, with some very cool features thrown in from FileMakerPro, in a sweet looking interface, that works in any web browser. Seesmic is a video conversation site. I think like a lot of Web 2.0 Have a look at the demo. You can share these Blists. Watch the demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. What conversations did you have within your employer about starting this? Susie has a great sense of humor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

He previously worked at Google, where he served as product lead for the company’s flagship conversational AI project, Google Duplex. But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced and has become one of the most talked about technologies in software development and operations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. Be Helpful.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are generally shared short or long codes that use keywords to organize conversations of multiple organizations that use the platform. Low-cost texting, simple web interface with pricing starting at $199/month for 3,500 messages, includes 10 keywords. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. Twilio.org.

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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. My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. Be Helpful.

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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

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? Location: global (telephone and web).

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

They searched these pictures on the web using “an open source facial recognition tool, known to provide reliable results,” and this led to a public Instagram page apparently belonging to Randolph’s girlfriend which contained “numerous images” of the suspect. Image: FBI Affidavit via The Huffington Post.

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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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