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. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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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. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Social media trailblazers open up. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. NTEN Tech Handbook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. 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

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. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Open Data Day — Google+ Hangout. Austin, Texas: NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference #15NTC. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Directors' Forum. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I stopped at the license agreement. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Thursday, October 6, 2016.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

We have scheduled our next theme month, on open data , for February and will gather the U.S. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Image Name: Author / License.

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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.) But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. There will be way more on this in later posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Empowering Cameroonians to Accelerate Open Data, Open Access, and Open Education. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director's Forum. Africa Open Data Conference. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum — March 3. London, United Kingdom: Uses of Internal, External, and Open Data for Charities. Dubai: 4,000 potential members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. Katrin Verclas, founder and editor-in-chief of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Oxford, United Kingdom: The Open Data Event. Friday, December 2, 2016.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward. Ubuntu is based on Debian). Be Helpful.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When it comes to your Executive Director, they will only want to know one thing: How does it advance the mission. Plug in the direct costs of both the old and new system, including hosting, licensing, support, and processing fees. You’ll want to be empathetic and considerate of their positions. This number is called the 5-Year Gain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Jonathan Greenblatt, Director, Office of Social Innovation, White House, shared a lot of insights about his new job. He made several important points, which is at the heart of the book that KD Paine and I are working on: “We manage what we measure, it is important to be accountable & transparent to your donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. Please join NTEN (and me!) Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In Allen "Gunner" Gunn's opening plenary at NTEN's cloud computing event last week , he spoke passionately about the potential for cloud computing to transform organizational boundaries and barriers ( see the video of the session ; Gunner's keynote starts at 29:50). Photo: Simon Webster , CC license

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Oil Wars shows how a frank, open discussion can shed light on a topic -- in this case, Venezuelan society and social movements. I followed the blog around the time of my travel to Venezuela in 2007 during which time the blog reported on the controversy surrounding the license of privately-held RCTV.

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