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01.16.08So many rabbit holes… so little timeNOTE: This post was originally written right before I left on vacation on New Year's Day. I wasn't feeling too comfortable about being rushed so I let this post age a bit before I released. And I decided to take the piece that was talking about the early ramifications about GiveWell and moved it to the next post.. This post is primarily for developers and technical architects. My apologies... Rabbit holes I've fallen into in the last several weeks... And those among you who are developers will know what I'm speaking of. The rest of you may catch a few buzzwords ...
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10.24.07Top 10 Things You Should Know About If You’re a Nonprofit Tech ConsultantFrom time to time, I get requests to do CTO or project management jobs on a consulting basis. I can't do them. I'm already the Executive Director of socialmarkets. However, I'd love to pass the buck (and the bucks) to my readers. Before I just open up my recommendations to anyone though, I have to do a pretty thorough check on people who would be interested. What follows is my top 10 list of things you should know and practice as a nonprofit technology consultant for web application development. Continue Reading...
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08.14.07Project Agape’s Causes Facebook app now at 2.5 million usersI had a quick phone interview with Joe Green and Keith Rarick from the Project Agape team. Joe Green is the head of Project Agape and Keith Rarick's "title" is Lead Engineer. I first wanted to ask the questions that were submitted on the blog. However, I think you can find many of the business-oriented questions that readers submitted answered in a more direct format over at Micah Sifry's interview with Joe Green over at the Personal Democracy Forum. Continue Reading...
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06.20.07Interview with Joe Green and Chris Chan of Project AgapeWe all know that Project Agape (uh-GAH-pay) has left the nptech world breathless with its amazing viral growth on Facebook. As a result of that growth and the constant hits on my earlier Project Agape post, I decided to do a quick interview with Project Agape. Micah Sifry has already done an excellent interview on the political and social implications of Project Agape but I had yet to see any technical information on how the Causes app on Facebook was built and maintained so I decided to call in for an interview. In short order, Project Agape turned around my ...
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03.28.07Good job, Housing Works!Wow! At least one nonprofit gets it! Housing Works is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer and they posted it on 37signals.com too! Here's a brief excerpt: Looking for an individual or company who can help us put the finishing touches on our online Thrift Shop Point of Sale system built in Ruby on Rails. Would be looking for someone with extensive rails experience and experience with point of sale or e-commerce. Ideally this arrangement would also include some sort of second level support agreement where the company or individual could be called upon for bug fixes when the internal team ...
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