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06.24.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part IIYou've read about my operational plan and theorems in Part I of this series. Here's why I chose Drupal to carry out the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress website instead of Wordpress. Continue Reading...
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06.20.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part II've been doing some research lately on building websites for a political advocacy group, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP). I haven't been posting lately because I went down a VERY, VERY deep Drupal, information architecture and SEO rabbit hole for the last few months. I would have written this post sooner but I really wanted to confirm a lot of my thoughts first with site traffic measurements. Basically, this is a story of how a very small political advocacy group went from zero to hero in roughly six months. This is going to be a long post so let's ...
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02.27.09IgniteNYC on 2/23/2009Please click on the thumbnails below to get the full picture. I attended IgniteNYC to try to understand the state of tech in NYC. What I found out instead was the state of art in NYC. Not the state of the art, but how artists are using technology for their projects. Many of the people here were discussing how their art interacted with technology. It's 2009 and it seems that the use of Web 2.0 technology and data visualization techniques has become de rigeur for artists. Continue Reading...
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02.26.09MobileTech4SocialChange Barcamp ReportHere are some pics from the Barcamp. I tried to get a nice representative sample of what I saw. Please click on the thumbnails below to get the full picture. Ok, I'm a little late on my m4change post, but my ex-Catholic guilt and the fact that Katrin Verclas is on the other side of the wall is starting to get to me. I attended the mobiletech4socialchange barcamp last Saturday (2/21/2009) and it was an illuminating event for me. Two projects have accumulated mindshare among nonprofit mobile tech advocates: Mobile Commons and Ushahidi. If I were to make a tag cloud ...
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01.14.09Your “Top 10 Nonprofit Technology Issues” ListNP Times Technobuzz today mentioned a list of Top 10 Nonprofit Technology issues released by Randy Johnston from K2 Enterprises: Lack of consistent, firm-wide procedures. Compliance issues. Insufficient training. Incorrect cabling. Power problems. Improper use of scanners. Too little memory in servers and work stations. Not balancing server and work station purchases. Incorrectly configured firewalls or wireless access points. Incorrect licensing. These issues sound familiar to you? As an IT director, I've had to deal with all these issues except oddly enough "improper use of scanners". I cringe at the thought of people using scanners to take impromptu "medical" pictures of various parts of their anatomy. It could also be that ...
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10.23.08Twitter Vote Project Launching Soon…So Beka Economopoulos (who is so cool that she always forgets that she's met me before hehe) writes me and tells me about the Twitter Vote Project: On Friday, October 24th, web developers, designers, and activists will team up for a nationwide day-long coding jam session to build out a new project called Twitter Vote Report. Inspired by a blog post by techPresident writers Allison Fine and Nancy Scola, volunteers across the country are moving quickly to build a decentralized election monitoring system that will allow voters to use text messages to report incidents of voter suppression, long lines, broken machines, ...
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08.11.08Top 5 Nonprofit Tech Vendor BlogsIn the course of reading research material for CRM technology, I have come across blogs by nonprofit tech vendors. They're of varying quality and candor about the position of their company within the market. I think a lot of nptech folks tend to dismiss corporate blogs (I happen to agree for the most part) but there are some blogs out there that not only happen to discuss the personal but also seem to be very cognizant of their place in the industry and how they serve their clients. Generally speaking, I would have to say that the smaller the company, ...
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05.30.08Blackbaud Buys KinteraJust my luck -- I'm on the plane back from Netsquared when Blackbaud announces the biggest news of the year in the nonprofit CRM space. Read the full press release... Continue Reading...
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05.06.08brightkite – who wants an invite?You might want to check out brightkite. Basically, it's a location-based web site that allows you to check in your current location. That sounds pretty boring and much like other location-based web sites like plazes.com or mologogo until you find out that it also integrates with Twitter and basically allows you to take a peek at geocoded Tweets. I can actually see who is on Brightkite in my neighborhood or even within my block. And even better, search for Tweets in my neighborhood. As a treat, if you happen to live in my neighborhood, Sunset Park in Brooklyn, I will ...
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04.30.08Nerd Out With Non-Profit Tech Blog Readers!I have one word for you, ok, two words, but who's counting... Chore Wars Continue Reading...
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