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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

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WordPress. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? They are on this list because I think they are great, because they have undergone a lot of change or development this year, or because they are game-changing. Open Source Tools. I use WP pretty much everyday, between my own blogs, and helping clients maintain theirs.

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Welcome to the new blog!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. copied over.

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Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Movable Type goes Open Source

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Had this happened 6 months ago, when I was ready to migrate my blogs, I would have just migrated them to MT4, instead of WordPress. But, that said, I like WordPress, too. I imagine that this is a bit of a response to WordPress ( others think so too.) They’ve been supporting open standards for years.

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Find me in my “office”

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I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

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January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. Ive been using CMSs for a while now and Im really involved with wordpress. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog.