Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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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. Anyone interested? Be Helpful.

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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. Shame on me.) Be Helpful.

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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. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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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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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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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. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08 Be Helpful.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Pava started off outlining the familiar statistics about mobile's explosive growth , and what those trends mean for nonprofit organizations who are thinking about mobile solutions: Start thinking "mobile first. Why Open Source? Use responsive design.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Donors are the lifeblood of nonprofit organizations. A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. Organizers Database (ODB). by the Organizers’ Collaborative. Orange Leap MPX.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. of use in very large organizations. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% and MPower at 0.4%. and MPower at 0.4%.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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! If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

A central challenge facing many of today’s nonprofit organizations is the paucity of technology solutions, as well as expertise, available for things like website development, fundraising, data migration, and so on. Of particular concern to these nonprofits is, of course, their supporter databases.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

Association management software suites can lift a really heavy load for your organization. The simplest explanation is that association management software should take on the burden of administrative tasks so you can concentrate on growing your organization. This is an excellent tool for midsized and rapidly growing organizations.

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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. Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building Web Building.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. It actually has more to it than that, there is a drawing program, a database, a math equation editor and more. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. And they did.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Kindful Kindful was founded with a simple idea in mind: nonprofits should be able to spend less time focused on their database and more time focused on their mission. Responsibilities Full-stack development Work within all layers of our products, with an emphasis on backend components, API, and the database.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

They know they can’t really share everything that happens behind the curtain (and believe me, there is so much that never reaches beyond the walls of most organizations) because they will risk the loss of funding. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts.

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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. Data governance represents ‘rules of the road’ for your donor database. As a general rule of thumb, though, use the importers.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. However, many nonprofits operate with tight budgets.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. There are tons of choices out there for small and mid-sized organizations. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

PFLAG is the first and largest national chapter-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. Siloed Data : The fundraising database was not integrated with the website, leading to siloed data and a lack of intelligence about stakeholder engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn. So how do you get SMS data into a database system like CiviCRM? Thanks to MobileActive.org and the Open Mobile Consortium for a fabulous event.

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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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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

A step-by-step approach to personalization allows organizations to start delivering unique content sooner than later. Just like the private sector, mission-driven organizations need to ensure they are providing personalized marketing and digital experiences in order to effectively engage their online audiences.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

The first thing to understand about membership database software is that the name itself is pretty misleading. It’s actually a combination of two different functions: The database itself that holds information on your members and the platform that allows you to do things with that information.

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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. OrchestraCMS – This is a paid app – with discounts for nonprofit organizations. What are the advantages?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

It has the kind of functionality you’d expect from a donor database. Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It seems in a business sense, to be a brilliant move. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Online Courses November 6, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about giving online courses in the use of open source software. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

We are focused on delivering quality web technology solutions to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM.

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