Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. It works pretty well (at this moment, I’m now downloading and installing the base system.) My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.

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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. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. Wordpress now uses dashes instead of underscores, so that’s something you don’t have to worry about. That’s all. You don’t have to worry about using mod_rewrite at all. Getting the varied blogrolls and badges, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission.

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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? Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. 5) Online classes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. And, as a competitor to Skype, ooVoo is much lighter on your system it’s quite easy to use. I’m hoping to test it out soon, as well. That can share my Linux desktop. That would be the holy grail.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. .) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. As you might recall, I migrated from a Mac desktop to a Linux desktop a month and a half ago. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads. It was great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He then talks about something that I find really interesting, and hadn’t fully understood until I read it: why the radio spectrum was regulated in the first place, and why now, regulation is basically moot. 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

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

The first couple of steps are done: - Set up switch box so I can bounce back and forth from my old system to new system from one monitor and keyboard. Create the master list of what needs to be ported over or installed on new system (config. I have 20 years of files on my hard drive - honestly. Do I really need all that?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m your host, Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub, an educational resource for nonprofits. There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. at 1:50 pm Modx is wonderful for adaptability (especially as a web dev) and sNews – just keep watching, no instant install as yet, still young, but wow – amazing since only one really lightweight simple php file! I’ll have to give it a whirl.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This work won a silver Davey Award for Education!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I also looked at a system that The Gilbert Center has been using. Also, please be aware that we will be rolling out support for VoIP and “Desktop Sharing from a Linux system&# before the end of the year. I hope that information helps you in your analysis. One last thing. Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were musicians, we'd have the recordings and the sheet music. We see this as part of the network of sites that NSF is funding for informal science education. Wendy: I'm not sure whether the system is going to automatically make those connections, but the plan is to link all of this up. We looked at LinkedIn as a model.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

I have a master's degree from Drexel University in Information Systems and saw most of my classmates go to major corporations. I’d like to see email, file sharing, accounting, and other standard collaboration tools in the cloud and well supported. Really, though, I’d say that my particular expertise is education.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation.

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APRIL 26, 2021

The Turning Point Ranch also made use of a tiered registration system with multiple ticket levels to choose from. Anything that might draw a crowd at an in-person event, like a professional speaker, live music, or a series of performances, would likely make great livestreaming content. Auction Event Registration. Online Shop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. Millions more are already using Google's Android mobile operating system and, additionally, a Google tablet prototype was unveiled recently. Smartphone sales are soaring , with 54.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use. Everyone can use twitter, few vote, nobody knows jack about their city, county, and state politics or the “information systems&# that make them run/fail to run. 5 Ron 08.11.08

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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