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. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

PlanetScale , the serverless database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess opensource project that powers YouTube, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. But at the same time, they really haven’t innovated all that much on how you solve the database part of this.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Smaller, distributed teams are increasingly relying on AI to synthesize data and optimize their workflows. At Blackbaud, we believe this future – the future of the nonprofit sector – will be supported by Data Intelligence. . What is Data Intelligence? .

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 31, 2023

Optimizing queries, improving runtimes, and geospatial data science applications Photo by Tamas Tuzes-Katai on Unsplash Intro: why is a spatial index useful? In doing geospatial data science work, it is very important to think about optimizing the code you are writing. Let’s get started! ? What’s a spatial index?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In June 2024, Roche licensed the ALZpath p-tau217 antibody to develop and commercialize an Alzheimers disease in-vitro diagnostic test. Protagonist reported over $259 million in license and collaboration revenue for the first half of 2024. million in the same period in 2023. chemicals company Johnson Matthey.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. The founders of Zing Data recognized this fundamental problem with data access, and they went to work building a mobile application that would let users get into the data themselves.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Data has emerged as one of the world’s greatest resources , underpinning everything from video-recommendation engines and digital banking , to the burgeoning AI revolution. For context, applications that don’t require instant, real-time data access can simply combine and process data in batches at fixed intervals.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The first phase focuses on building a data pipeline. This involves getting data from an API and storing it in a PostgreSQL database. In the second phase, we’ll develop an application that uses a language model to interact with this database. Using these data engineering tools firsthand is beneficial.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. Segment acquisition is about helping developers build data-fueled apps. Twilio’s $3.2B

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. Several tech companies have sent cease and desist orders to Clearview requesting it remove any data culled from social media posts.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Chaos Data-Engineering Manifesto Another lesson we can learn from software engineers: break stuff to make it more reliable. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. We cannot afford to overlook data’s increasingly large role in critical operations.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Just like with songs, the data you use isn’t always contained in the same project on your Tableau site. With our new collections feature, you can gather the data from across your site and organize them to fit how you use them—just like playlists! Organize your data the way you think about your data. In Tableau 2020.4,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Revolut, which has a banking license in Lithuania, wouldn’t say exactly how many customers were affected. Revolut also declined to say what types of data were accessed but told TechCrunch that no funds were accessed or stolen in the incident. Customers who have not received an email have not been impacted.”.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

Are You a Data Ticket Taker or Decision Maker? The characteristics and value of reactive vs. proactive data teams Image courtesy of the author. Fundamentally, there are two different types of data teams in this world. This isn’t to say data teams should never resolve a ticket or field an ad-hoc request.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

But I have to admit, I’m not a fan of the Foundation’s Batch Data Entry tool. It’s not just uploading Opportunity records via the Data Loader or DemandTools. And you have to know enough about your data to map the field name and values correctly. It’s all about manipulating data.

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Candid

JANUARY 9, 2025

Of course, this doesnt mean that strategic plans need to include an exhaustive list of every tool and license your organization uses or an outline of requested updates to the website or database. In a rapidly changing environment, we cant provide staff with guidance and policies that need to be completely rewritten regularly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. Create your engagement plan informed by the data you collected.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It isn’t a blanket ban on facial recognition; police will still be able to run searches against the state’s driver’s license database but only with a warrant and requirements that law enforcement agencies publish annual transparency reports regarding those searches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

When we think about identity in the digital world, it usually involves a username and password, but Merit (originally called Sigma) wants to help governments issue digital credentials that link back to a government license database with the goal of bringing an end to flimsy paper cards.

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Tableau

AUGUST 24, 2021

release: Get Tableau notifications directly in Slack for data-driven alerts, @mentions in comments, and sharing activity to stay on top of your data, from anywhere. Safely explore data and save content on your Tableau Server or Online site before it’s ready to be shared with others with Personal Space. With the Tableau 2021.3

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Think very carefully Creating and maintaining a data platform is a hard challenge. Data connectors are an essential part of such a platform. Of course, how else are we going to get the data? Maintaining complex code for every single data connector. Data flowing like cars in a highway. spec.containers[0].ports[0].containerPort}")

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Companies sit on a lot of unstructured data and often don’t have the capabilities to get much out of it. Now imagine having a way to store data and actually be able to ask it questions, for example, “When did ABC Company sign its first contract with us?” or “Show me videos that contain blue skies.”.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Have you recently read an article or attended a webinar where you were told that your data or software had to be in “the cloud”? There’s a reason why a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere came to be used to describe a particular state of data and software. Don’t be like this guy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We talk a lot about data at Idealware, and we're not alone — it's a nonprofit buzzword that's showing no sign of fading. More and more organizations are embracing the idea that collecting and measuring data and acting on what they learn from it can improve their work and better their services. Here in the U.S.,

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Tableau

JANUARY 9, 2025

Candice Vu January 9, 2025 - 9:59pm Francis Dejonckheere Senior Principal Success Manager How often have you heard, Without good data, you wont have good AI? Organizations that cannot confidently confirm they have reliable data cannot confidently adopt AI or self-service capabilities. This challenge has significant downstream effects.

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Tableau

AUGUST 24, 2021

release: Get Tableau notifications directly in Slack for data-driven alerts, @mentions in comments, and sharing activity to stay on top of your data, from anywhere. Safely explore data and save content on your Tableau Server or Online site before it’s ready to be shared with others with Personal Space. With the Tableau 2021.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Together they are a powerful set of tools for nonprofits, especially with integrations to automatically sync data between them. The initial investment to integrate your website with your Salesforce instance pays off through better data quality and consistency with less staff time spent on data administration.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. CEO Tatiana Krupenya says that it’s an administrative tool that allows anyone to access data from a variety of sources.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0, and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. When they understood the data they didn’t trust it.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

We’ve been using Salesforce as our primary everything database since mid 2006. Our database is set up based on the old nonprofit best practice of putting individual constituents/donors in a bucket “Individual&# account. Once upgraded, all existing licenses can use the new features. Bugs will be fixed.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Yona says companies only need to spend 10 or 15 minutes to onboard, uploading bank statements and HR data. The platform then ingests additional information from public state databases and delivers a personalized shutdown plan. They pay a one-time fee based on the complexity of their structure.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Dolma, as the dataset is called, is intended to be the basis for the research group’s planned open language model, or OLMo (Dolma is short for “Data to feed OLMo’s Appetite).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Collecting institutions have enormous stacks of data about the artifacts and artworks in their stores. Last month, the Tate joined the party when they opened up their collection database to the world on GitHub, a website where programmers collaborate on projects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Portland, Oregon-based startup thatDot , which focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine , a new MIT-licensed open source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with graph data to create what the company calls a “streaming graph.” Image Credits: thatDot.

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