In preparing to make recommendations for an upcoming event at the University of California in Irvine, I took a look at the relative desirability of using a blog rather than using an email listserver to facilitate interaction in a large group of people.
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Online Donations
I’d like to talk about PayPal here, because it’s used by so many folks nowadays, but also because I believe it’s pretty reliable and we’ve been using it to handle our online donations for a while now. So I can give you the benefit of some short experience here.
Sharing Data and Services
Sharing data and sharing services
Non-profit organizations generally have to make-do with fewer resources than so-called for-profit corporations, isn’t that right?. It certainly seems like it’s impossible to get venture capital for non-profits, so it almost goes without saying that non-profits should share resources whever their goals are aligned. Nobody should have to reinvent what another organization has spent precious resources developing.
Putting dynamic content into your web site
Putting “dynamic” content into every web site.
I’d guess that upwards of 90% of the web sites around today have more-or-less static content. They’re maintained by folks who use DreamWeaver or GoLive or FrontPage to build HTML pages which they then upload to their server. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
The right tools for the job
I’m working with a group of folks who are developing their own online requirements and interested in finding online tools they can use to further their goals. The group was spearheaded by Mark Roest of oneVillage.biz, and includes Kaliya Young, Sasha Noble, Joerg Geier, Greg Walton, Michael Mitchell, Joy Tang founder of oneVillage Foundation, Dennis Reinhardt, Sherry Reson, Jennifer Holmes, Nancy Glock-Grueneich of Higher EDge (and I’ve missed some others).
We’ve created a project at the Chaordic Initiatives web site. The project is named Community Online Support. (Chaordic is interesting in its own right, and I will return to this subject at a later date – in that it presents a “new” model for the ownership and promotion of sharing of intellectual property. You can see the organizing principles behind the Chaordic Commons and the Creative Commons licensing proposal online.)
Related projects include kundrel.org.
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