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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. The database has not come anywhere near the functionality of Access.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.

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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. The center of my workflow, like for most consultants, is email.

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4 Resources to Transform Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy

NonProfit Hub

That means you might not have a full-time marketing person (or even a part-time one!) Canva is a time-saving online design wizard with numerous templates. Buffer is a social scheduling app that allows you to schedule your posts ahead of time. Google Docs. WordPress Themes.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Be Helpful.

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