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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

If you want to read about the first 10 years at Matrix Group, here’s a blog post I wrote back in 2009 ! If we don’t hear joy in a client’s voice, our job is not done. Although I love to take photos and videos, I’m not actually one to spend a lot of time looking back. I’m not someone who looks to the far future, either. There is no try.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

That means custom fundraising pages, embeddable donation forms for your own site, text-to-donate functionality (with live display for sharing your progress bar at live events), live event ticketing, and peer-to-peer options. Platform Fee : Free Transaction Fee : 2.9% + $.30 MobileCause is a one-stop-shop for online giving. Platform Fee: 2.5%

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Has Apple become evil? No, but they are getting stupid.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music. But for all of Steve Jobs smarts, sometimes he can be pretty dumb.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

2) The customers, as a general rule, check to the open source or open API box on their RFP and then hire the vendor to do the implementation… they just don’t have the technical chops to really dive deep into the software. at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do? OK, enough of that. Be Helpful.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories.

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