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Things We Like (July 2009)

NTEN

It's a one-joke site, but a pretty funny one. The 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Awards are only open until July 31st. Surely your org can write a better tagline than a Hollywood marketer: " 4 Girls. Over at Full Circle Associates, you can grab their Digital Identity Workbook and adapt it to your own needs. Division by 2 !=

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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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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link]. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center.

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2009 NTC Preview: Lance Wolack on Protecting Your.ORG Domain

NTEN

org/Do you know what DNSSEC is? Check out the park's web site for more details. . Tags: org 09NTC domain NPTech Security wolack_lance. I didn't either. More of us than ever are vulnerable to the kinds of security holes that hackers like to exploit.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Aug 28th, 2009

NTEN

You probably already know that NTEN is working on a site-redesign (because we're crowdsourcing the project ), but did you know that NTEN member and nptech rockstar org TechSoup is also undergoing a site redesign? Is there something in the nptech water? Marnie Webb reveals their project overview on her blog.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. Why bother having a web site at all? Your site, zenofnptech.org, is already on Quantcast.

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Who Sits at Your Leadership Table? A Case for Senior Technologists

NTEN

For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line. Tech officers can use this to inform decisions about systems toward long-term impact. During his 4.5