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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 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. Open source is now mainstream.

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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. Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I use them a lot, both for work as well as for personal use. The only way we’re going to get out of this cycle is to channel this energy and resources into open software (including “open&# source apps for proprietary web services), open standards, and open networks – things no one can take away.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. Open source as a philosophy also promotes accessibility, transparency, inclusivity, open data, and integration with other tools. What the Mobile Revolution Means.

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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. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08 Be Helpful.

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

Composable has displaced the concept of the all-in-one DXP and allows for different pieces of a tech stack to be moved in and out over time without a complete rebuild. In a Composable Architecture, front-end and back-end developers can work completely in parallel based on an agreed-upon API contract.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. This managed package helps administrators who need to understand relationships between different sets of data in a number of situations, like when Salesforce Roll-Up Summary Fields aren’t an option or custom coding isn’t possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. As we look forward to 2015, we recognize that much work remains to be done, and we definitely need your continued support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete. And there is plenty of work to do—look for more from me in the coming months where I’ll share my plans. I can assure you that I am not retiring.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Work with a website consultant. Security features , such as two-factor authentication, the ability to assign restricted permissions to different users, and automated security tests. All of the top CMS platforms available today offer these features, but they differ in some meaningful ways. Compare top platforms.

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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. While they're similar in many ways, they also have some substantial differences when it comes to features and flexibility. We have you covered! Tools Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

By now, I’ve learned quite a number of them (I think 9 by last count), but for some reason, I seem to choose my work on them just at the top of the curve, or as they are going down. In case you are wondering, there already is a Ruby toolkit for the Salesforce API, although it looks like it only works on Rails 2.3, Fun times!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Come join our team of talented individuals who are passionate about building relationships within our team, with our partners, and with our customers that enable Kindful to make a real difference in the nonprofit market with our fully integrated online fundraising CRM. You may review designs for some upcoming work with a small group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There is a lot of experiments and research in different areas, including the international development sector to address the 2030 development goals, emergency and humanitarian aid, medical fields and many others. Many organizations are working on similar projects and could benefit from shared resources. . different demographics). .

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

These digital strategies work hand-in-hand to elevate a website. Web personalization is not a new concept, with many applications available that allow you to achieve personalization through different approaches. This allows us to direct users to different topics that they are interested in using set conditions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force Academy classmate, Otis Hooper, now worked at Salesforce. It was a way I could make a difference.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

Almost anyone from the human rights field will tell you that the work can be as rewarding as it is challenging. and work often with people in miserable conditions (yes, in both places!); Thanks for helping us find the right person for this key role at Benetech: it will make a difference to the global cause of human rights!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

A few months ago, in preparation for a couple of projects, and a big push into this area for our company, I was faced with a strategic choice – go it alone, and build our own integration module for client projects, or plunge into using and working with the contributed salesforce modules. Build on the work of others.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Composable has displaced the concept of the all-in-one DXP and allows for different pieces of a tech stack to be moved in and out over time without a complete rebuild. In a Composable Architecture, front-end and back-end developers can work completely in parallel based on an agreed-upon API contract.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack officially joined the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform for the ultimate work-from-anywhere world. with their 35,000 grassroots volunteers as they worked on various campaign tactics targeted at undecided voters in key states. They used Slack to streamline communications across the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our first task was to create an efficient solution that would allow us to accept all donations in any currency, and which could support many different languages,” Yaroslav said. After we implemented all the automation and donor journeys, we were able, at last, to have our first day off after months of hard work,” Yaroslav told me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. 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.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

This migration work will not happen automatically , and it is on each organization to migrate code, and export legacy data. For nonprofits, Google Ad Grant may be at risk if it isn’t connected to a working Google Analytics property. Google Analytics is forcing a complete migration of older Universal Analytics to the newer GA4 tool.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. They are doing really great work and they need more help to meet demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. 30,000 yearly income, and now we have loads of staff and lots of different projects and a turnover of 1.3

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

In an ideal world, organizations can be aggregating these data points to build a comprehensive marketing strategy; but in reality, most organizations aren’t fully utilizing basic data sources to make informed decisions about their marketing. Here’s how you can start small and work your way to an advanced personalization approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three recent examples from Forum One’s work with mission-driven organizations show how centering online community engagement allows direct service to key constituencies and builds upon what digital tools can deliver. Trinity Church Wall Street (TCWS) has a diverse set of audiences, all with different needs.

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