Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. That’s super depressing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

&# O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Worth a read! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 16, 2007

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. We all don’t need to be on the bleeding edge to get stuff done. { Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Many of you have probably relied on multiple Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and maybe a Microsoft Access database at some point in your professional life. My hope is that I can provide insight and experience that will be helpful for other nonprofits who currently use, or are thinking of implementing, Salesforce as their primary database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. The first article, on Mac database options , just got published last week. One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It’s being billed as the “easiest database&# and I pretty much have to agree. So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Have a look at the demo. Watch the demo. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. .&# tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. { They are worth a read. {

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

In this Alliance Magazine article David Bonbright, chief executive of Keystone Accountability explains that while the Markets for Good initiative intended to develop a philanthropic ecosystem and social change information marketplace that gave the most marginalized a voice, in reality this has not been the case.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? There are some great tips in this Wired article. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. Novell I think the article says pretty much everything that needs to be said about Novell, and SUSE Linux. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

The way it works is that the password management software has a local database or a file that holds the encrypted password data for secure log-in onto computers, networks, web sites and application data files. You want proprietary or open source software. How does it work? See the "encrypted" part?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. “ Find much more on how this work was accomplished in Michael Silberman’s article in the Huffington Post.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Key is having a good understanding of the document types you need, so that you don't have too many of them but you're differentiating properly; making solid choices about directory structure (which, with KnowledgeTree, controls security) and metadata; and, as with any database, getting all of this right before you get too far into the use.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. But it's a "Catch 22" -- the proliferation of decentralized technology systems compromises the typical nonprofit's ability to deliver simply because its databases don't automatically integrate information about constituents for more effective marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Convio or Causes?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06 Be Helpful.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Salsa CRM includes comprehensive fundraising software with a donor management database and your choice of online engagement tools and starts at $249 a month. Their unlimited live support includes phone and email support, and don’t forget their online articles, videos, and webinars are all here to help, too!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. “ Find much more on how this work was accomplished in Michael Silberman’s article in the Huffington Post.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover how to create a donor data migration strategy with deep dives into data mapping, data cleaning, and testing. Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Sound exciting?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Partnered with Network for Good, if your nonprofit is already in the NFG database, then you have a profile on HelpAttack! It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. The approaches are similar and different to each other. Be Helpful.

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