Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Gregory Heller, CivicActions Not long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. CiviCRM got great scores in NTEN's Data Ecosystem Report.

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MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. It’s straightforward to add a donation, and to receipt it via email, but you’ll need to know if a donation corresponds to a pledge prior to entering it, and you need to export the data in order to mail-merge a thank you or other letter. Orange Leap MPX.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 1, 2013

Soapbox Engage is way to take a stand alone front end for donation and event registration forms and easily get its data to Salesforce…a combination of a platform built on the open source CMS Joomla and Salesforce app. Tagged: applications , Common Ground , Nonprofit , Nonprofits , nptech , Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? I have social media ennui.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Data Infrastructure Integration & APIs Mobile mobile advocacy mobile mapping mobile optimization mobile program delivery nonprofit technology nptech Open Source Strategy Web Sites Communications IT Staff'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Databases and applications will be developed directly in Khmer, with easy, standard ways to handle names and data. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I was especially interested in the issue of mobile data collection. (I There are a number of ways to get data from mobile phones into a CRM – and all have advantages and disadvantages, depending on a lot of things. So how do you get SMS data into a database system like CiviCRM? I was so interested, I facilitated a session.)

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Are you using Google+ Open source vs proprietary CMS Just what is a data scientist anyway? Images for blogs List of #nptech conferences in 2014 5 Tips for responsive web design Reasonable remote support options Did your favorite post make the list? Let us know what it was in the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Flowing Data - OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible. The Open Road - Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world. Tags: Uncategorized nptech.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! 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."

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech online community Blogging Social networking membership database websites Membership management data backup open source software content Ning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Also, are you attending an NPTech-related event this month? Check out this page to see where NTEN will be in the community this month; we''d love to link up with you. agenda deadlines local events weekly round up'

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 25, 2009

If you work at times on different computers, carrying a USB loaded with free portable software can save you time and help to ensure security - there's no need to download and install the software you need or to risk your data on someone else’s hard drive.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 8, 2009

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. 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. 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work. We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). >

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 It’s a great, thoughtful post.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

The Ultimate Go-To Resource on Mobile Data Collection (and growing…) | MobileActive.org – "Want to use mobiles for data collection? Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. The old fashioned form of integration.

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MARCH 5, 2009

The idea is that as barriers to the movement of data come down, doing things that were never possible before become a lot more possible. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. Dries ‘ keynote was fun, and it was great to hear a bit about the history, and also the ideas about where Drupal is going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is an avid participant and presenter at Edgar Means’ Do Good Data Conference. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project.

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