Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. 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. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

You can export your donation history into a CSV file, and you can make your reports into PDFs. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. It is well hidden, but a somewhat savvy MediaWiki user will notice the telltale signs (the URLs are one giveaway.) There are no APIs.

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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 two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. 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

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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