Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. This means that it is easier to back up and migrate, but doesn’t scale well. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. How busy is it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. If pretty much all I did was documents, email and the web, like many people, I wouldn’t be having these issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. Even though the documents online explains it well, people still use the T() and the DB_QUERY() functions incorrectly. at 4:26 pm Dave Keays wrote: Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). Sometimes ‘open source’ is the most important kind of openness. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. That’s good news. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. APIs are here to stay. In fact, they are the future. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. The sharing or peer-to-peer economy is a relatively new Internet trend that arose out of the Great Recession. What they said may surprise you. They're so useful!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

We like what the delicious mirror API (named Mirrord) can do in porting existing applications, which is happening and documented on our blog. Finally, speaking of the API, we also have our regular one which is fairly robust and a great way to take advantage of the more unique aspects that we have going. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06 Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. First of all, what are they?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

However, I came across [link] recently via a regular technology email news letter to which I subscribe It seems a nice offering. at 4:25 pm @ Nancy, Wow, I’m really concerned with your news. as a conference moderator, i would prepare a short document to send first-time users that guides them through some important steps (e.g.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Also, we posted the slides from our talk on the integration here: [link] We’re working on some additional documentation and screencasts as well as a distribution of Plone that includes the salesforce.com integration ready to go! 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09 Look for that shortly. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

They both have good documentation and active communities. I can imagine, though, that the Symfony approach can be powerful. Looking at Ohloh , Cake is more popular than Symfony (on Ohloh, who knows about in general), but Symfony has a lot more developers (81 vs 17). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Canva’s drag-and-drop features and professional layouts enable users to easily design stunning graphics and documents. VivaVideo Pro is a powerful video editor that enables easy trimming and merging of video clips and photos into video stories that can be accentuated with music, stickers, filters, and subtitles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Canva’s drag-and-drop features and professional layouts enable users to easily design stunning graphics and documents. VivaVideo Pro is a powerful video editor that enables easy trimming and merging of video clips and photos into video stories that can be accentuated with music, stickers, filters, and subtitles. Graphic Design.

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