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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’). ’).

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Six Reasons It’s Time for Nonprofit Board Management Software

NTEN

Cost reduction : Of course you’ll save money on printing and shipping costs by working with digital files, but also consider the impact increased efficiencies will have on the bottom line. November 2011: Community Generated Content. In other words, a member could have complete and total access to all the digital resources (i.e.

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Six Reasons It’s Time for Nonprofit Board Management Software

NTEN

Cost reduction : Of course you’ll save money on printing and shipping costs by working with digital files, but also consider the impact increased efficiencies will have on the bottom line. November 2011: Community Generated Content. In other words, a member could have complete and total access to all the digital resources (i.e.

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Mobile Social Networks Get a Boost - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0 Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. .&#

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2011 NTC Preview: Going Online for Capacity Mapping and Resource Matching: The Big Picture

NTEN

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

NTEN

In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively.