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APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Their programs include six community food pantries, one mobile pop-up pantry distributing food in six different locations, a program called Gleaning that partners with local farmers to recover food that would otherwise go to waste, a hot meal program, and a summer camp program. Hunger Action Month.

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JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. Way to go, NPR! Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do!

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. If that integration, with the added integration of a PDA is very important to you, don’t even bother trying Linux on the desktop. coming out in October.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The following servers and licenses are in the Windows Small Business Server 2011 family. Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition: English , Spanish. read more.

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We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. In this grantmaking area, too, The Fund was key to Bookshare’s global expansion and to our ability to better serve low-income users, in developing and developed countries alike.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. - Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

is through mobile devices! Why Go Mobile? On the other hand, only 16% of the surveyed nonprofits plan on having mobile websites in 2011, while 19% plan on having Smartphone Applications. Did you know that mobile web use increased by 230% between 2008 and 2009? [1] 3] Did you get an adrenalin rush?! Get Engaged!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

While system data and trends show online giving is growing, consumer research reinforces the need for nonprofits to focus on how they integrate online and other technology into their marketing and development programs – not just for today, but for the future. . 2) Mobile technology. Mobile (and Open) Creates Future Opportunity.

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JULY 9, 2007

It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. Linux has server market (check) Linux is working on the browser market (checK) Linux has apps that work for addresses and also integreates with other apps well (BUZZ!

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JANUARY 16, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

But it may well be that for more complex integrations, the Kintera API will provide more power. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API. Of course, the API was only one part of Convio’s initiative, so I do still think they come out ahead, a bit.

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It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. " Its not that there is a lack of technology vendors and support. For those of us who’d like to see organizations get better support – how do we do that?

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AUGUST 30, 2007

And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Code published in PHP and Python would probably get a lot more people up to speed and interested in building stuff that will integrate with the things that a lot of nonprofits really use. I mean really, how many nonprofits have stuff written in Java? Small minority, I’d bet. (I

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 You will have to wait for them to approve this.

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JULY 29, 2021

Mobile fundraising empowers people to give on the go! Whether supporters are donating through text or accessing your online donation page on their smartphones, it’s imperative that your organization has the tools, resources, and best practices to conduct a successful mobile fundraising campaign. What Is Mobile Fundraising?

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JULY 11, 2012

Your supporters and donors now expect well-executed, integrated social media campaigns. Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

As he told the story, the server edition is a real priority for Canonical, they already have big deployments and support contracts, and we should see exciting features like easier centralized authentication and ebox [1] integration in the next release. [1][link]

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.) That’s good news.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out – what kinds of integration will be possible between social network data and CRM data? I think that the inclusion of Salesforce in the mix will be very interesting for web-savvy nonprofits who are thinking about, or have started writing apps for social networks.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# you the picture.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Healthcare for America NOW (HCAN) started organizing in early 2008 by asking people to make pledges before a bill was even in existence. Tags: Integrated Marketing Online Advocacy Online Marketing. . “I sure hope you’re not getting started now,&# said Heather Holdridge of Fenton Communications.

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MARCH 2, 2007

I’m enjoying finding ways to integrate tech and personal/organizational development, and I’ll look to do more of that in my writing. I also appreciate the suggestion to bring my interest in technology to bear on my writing on management and related topics. Thanks again–I hope all’s well with you.

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