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The power of open source VOIP

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. What is Asterisk, you ask? Be Helpful.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009. We hope you will join us."

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. And so the feedback cycle keeps going.

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WeAreMedia Project

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. What are “influencers?&# Read the blog entry. It’s pretty interesting. Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. Be Helpful.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And there are, for sure, some interesting case studies. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009. I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools.

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