Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

It is important to prioritize doing this as soon as possible as you can’t collect any data until this is in place which will hurt things like year over year comparisons. Here is the GA guide: Meet the next generation of Google Analytics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It works for multiple projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If you’re running database applications (tracking donations, events, programs, clients) and want deep integration between your web content and your data, it is an approach that is hard to beat. What are the advantages?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. I hate to be so blunt, but it is true, at least in comparison to the ones on the Mac. Open source projects do get better. It sometimes tastes yucky.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. Ma.gnolia seems better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great web development environment, of course. I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. 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

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Currently, he's blogging about his Web Office experiment which is well worth following. The two week long ' Great Web Office ' experiment was inspired by IT Redux's Office 2.0 The question are web 2.0 You can read about the 'web office 2.0' You can read about the 'web office 2.0' So, tell me about your Office 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Laura Lee Dooley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

And then there are those of us in the Nonprofit technology community who are constantly on the bleeding edge of the next thing, whether it be hardware, software, or web services, are constantly talking about it, and how it’s going to make it easier/better/faster to change the world. The developer builds the website, then goes away.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

of nonprofit organizations whose website is stuck behind a custom CMS – one that was written by some web development shop or another, and migration off of that custom CMS is going to be a nightmare. I wrote that CMS back before there were any really good open source ones, like most of the custom CMS out there.

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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. Free software?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The cost for Wix’s premium plans is as follows: Light: $16/mo Core: $27/mo Business: $32/mo Business Elite: $159/mo Enterprise: Custom Pricing Wiz also offers a limited free plan, but it comes with few features and a giant Wix logo on all your web pages. But it’s important to be aware of Wix’s limitations before you make a decision.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics. Week 3: The RFP Process.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. But which web analytics tool should you use? Week 1: The Basics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." The World Wide Web Turns 25. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

and use a tool like rowfeeder to capture the hashtag stream into a spreadsheet to analyze. You’ll can do some comparison testing of different calls to action and then refine what you’re doing. Just a small pilot, a little bit a data, and linked to decision-making can help your tweets have more impact. Are they reliable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and describing them with tags. Introduction.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

All attendee interactions—like signing up for your event, opening emails, and interacting with your social media posts—are logged on a chronological timeline. CiviCRM – Best open-source nonprofit event management software Overview: CiviCRM offers an open-source CRM for nonprofits. per user per month.

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