Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

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It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) The database has not come anywhere near the functionality of Access. The days when many a nonprofit were run by Access databases is coming to a close as things move more and more to the cloud. It doesn’t have Publisher.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Web Server Software

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If you measure by surveying publicly accessible websites, you get Linux first at 41%-74%, Windows second at 20-42% and proprietary UNIX third at 2-5%?. It would make sense to me that the true number is much closer to the estimation by publicly accessible websites, rather than the unit sales estimation. source: wikipedia ).

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Women Who Tech Telesummit

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It’s virtual – all you need is access to a phone line and the web so you can participate from anywhere in the world). So it’s time to come get your tech on ! Come join hundreds of women on September 15th at the Women Who Tech Telesummit from 11AM to 6PM Eastern Time.

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CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla)

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They are both installable on pretty standard shared-hosting accounts (although shell access really helps.) One example: since Joomla doesn’t have granular ACLs (Access Control Lists) there must be issues with how permissions work in terms of access to specific parts of CiviCRM. I do agree with Jon to some extent.

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Real Social CRM

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You can set up multiple twitter and facebook accounts, and each facebook account can have access to multiple pages. It definitely is geared more toward the “Service Cloud&# than the “Sales Cloud.&#. It’s all done via OAuth, which is cool.

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Blog shout outs

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And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible. Wireframes Magazine - I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data - OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary. Who won?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Not only do you not have access to the code running something like, say, Salesforce.com, but in some cases (such as the case of Facebook) the cloud service providers own your data, too! But what’s also true is that “the cloud&# is, at its core, supremely proprietary.