Archive for Nonprofiteering

CSS: The User’s Stumbling Block

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on August 16th, 2009 No Comments

I’ve set up a few clients on Joomla or WordPress – somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen. Recently, something struck me as a barrier to truly handing the site over to them: Styles For web developers, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets, a befogged acronym) is wonderful. It lifts lowly, cumbersome HTML into a state [...]

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Social Actions vs. All For Good Smackdown (Part 2: Formats)

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on July 2nd, 2009 No Comments

See Part 1 if you need some background.  This part is more for web nerds, or people who aren’t afraid of learning some of our arcane rituals and glyphs. I’m going to assume you’re familiar with and have used REST APIs in the past.  If not, I’m going to make a wild stab at an [...]

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All For Good vs. Social Actions Smackdown (Part 1)

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on June 23rd, 2009 5 Comments

All For Good launched very recently as an aggregator of service opportunities within the United States.  Earlier this spring I got involved with Social Actions, which is an aggregator of worldwide service and micro-loan opportunities.   Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or [...]

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Lights, Camera, Help

Life, Nonprofiteering on May 4th, 2009 No Comments

I was tempted to wander around rhetorically for a few paragraphs talking about how to make choices about which nonprofits to support when you’re a nonprofit consultant, do you go with your beliefs, support your friends, or do you try to get leads, etc etc.  But, that’s kind of dumb because the rad people running [...]

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NTC, Yeah You Know Me

Nerding, Nonprofiteering, SalesForce on April 30th, 2009 1 Comment

NTC was, for me, a catharsis.  It validated my decision, a bit more than a year ago, to commit myself to the risk and reward of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector.  The feeling was akin to the first few weeks on the ‘engineering floor’ of my freshman dormatory:  A discovery that those around me are [...]