Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Movable Type goes Open Source December 13, 2007 This is old news, sort of. Be Helpful. Yesterday, they finally released it. I’m liking Six Apart more and more these days.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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DECEMBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 21, 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 #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 3, 2008

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Be Helpful. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Why do we nptechies care?

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APRIL 14, 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 #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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MARCH 27, 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 #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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JANUARY 15, 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 9, 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 #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. These posts on open source applications are so helpful.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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FEBRUARY 26, 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 #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Be Helpful. There are channels for everything.

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JANUARY 3, 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 #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. Be Helpful.

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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.) Be Helpful. XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

He helps women-led communications teams free up their time and lock down WordPress from getting hacked. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. By Chuck Spidell , a Nonprofit WordPress Security Expert with ILLUSIO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 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 #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Be Helpful. So it has its challenges.

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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 #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Be Helpful. It’s got great plug-ins, too. {

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Be Helpful. Anyone interested?

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JANUARY 24, 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 #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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FEBRUARY 15, 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 #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. Be Helpful. It’s quite amazing.

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FEBRUARY 7, 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 #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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JANUARY 31, 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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about open source technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. and MPower at 0.4%.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. This report also includes our new directory of the consultants and firms who help nonprofit create websites and implement these Content Management Systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 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 #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Of particular concern to these nonprofits is, of course, their supporter databases. Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. to develop open source software. Be Helpful. Now I know.

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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! I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. 4 admin 02.05.08

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

Here are some things to look for: Feature Function Member Database Association management software needs data to work. An integrated member database will allow you to use all of the features effectively. The right association management software will allow you to set triggers in your system that will kick off these automated tasks.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. We hope this provides guidance that will help you plan all aspects of your next data migration. For more help, see this post.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

For mission-driven organizations, the most common ways to begin personalizing content and outreach are to identify the sources where they are already gathering information or data on audiences and target personas. This includes: Email databases Website analytics CRM systems Online giving platforms. What are your goals?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

"" Free Access: Nonprofit Tagline Database & Report | Nonprofit Marketing | Getting Attention – "Don't miss the just-released, all-new Nonprofit Tagline Database with 4,800+ organizational, program, fundraising campaign and special event taglines. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

This sounds even more ridiculous when we acknowledge that we’re working with human beings who are infinitely complex, and we are operating in a space to address systems, structures, and practices that in many cases have been intentionally designed for hundreds of years to limit the possibilities and success of huge segments of our population.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

WordPress is the world’s most-used Content Management System (CMS), and Salesforce is the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Solution: Content Management System Form Builders. Similar to the CMS form tools, these tools use a GUI-based system for designing forms and mapping fields. . About the Co-Authors.

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