Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Check out the wiki. That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

It's a glimpse into the future of the Internet. WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. Brian has big ideas about reducing language barriers on the Internet, and his enthusiasm is nothing if not contagious. Tools Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. The old fashioned form of integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

XML-based web services Probably the biggest trend we see is that organizations are trying to push more functionality out to members and supporters via the internet. I don't often see SOAP listed among the "emerging web technologies" discussed on non-profit tech sites, but it has definitely arrived.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Non-Profit Tech Blog.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. While we provide the service free for only 5 people, we also provide free recording option. Every time you record the meeting, the recordings will be stored in your “MyPage.” Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08 You have to pay to use their corporate wiki software “Confluence&# , but they bundle the source code with the licence so you can customise (and improve) the software yourself. 3 AJ 07.16.08 4 Dan Knauss 07.17.08 5 Ron 08.11.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. One piece we did not use that we could have gotten some leverage- Pathable can add a mini WetPaint wiki to each session listed in the calendar, so we could have asked people to share notes, links there. I resisted using the title of “report card”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). at 5:53 am BuddyPress is amazing… but it lacks wiki’s and document sharing… which are two massive shortcomings for it’s use as a sharing and collaboration network for organizations.

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