Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Submit a request for proposal (RFP).

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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. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Dropbox Sign enables organizations to prepare, send, sign, and track documents.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS). So what LMS should you look at?

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

The right association management software will allow you to set triggers in your system that will kick off these automated tasks. This cloud-based system is built on Salesforce and offers automation, ongoing upgrades, artificial intelligence integrations, and other advanced features.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. These and other organizations are working to advocate for a just and liberatory tech future by understanding and addressing how anti-Blackness, transphobia, and other oppressive systems impact tech policy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. The ability to integrate with many systems and bring organization-wide conversations into one centralized location in Slack is invaluable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It works for multiple projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. Don’t Build That App.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

It allows you to set a limit on the number of failed attempts a user can make before they’re locked out of the system completely. CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are wonderful for working on a document written in a markup language, but what if you don’t know anything about CSS?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

There is a lot of information there on how to get going, including how to get your document into the right format. Apple also has a system by which you sign up to sell your books in their iBookstore. Amazon has what’s called “ Kindle Direct Publishing &# – how you can self-publish your book on Amazon.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. I’d like to do more of all of it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

Content Management Systems are an essential part of the communications function of nonprofit organizations. There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. And there are open source options that can do much of the same work for much less money.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I need to figure out a good network configuration. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

But I have to admit that this seems to me a bit too much like a gateway drug - get them hooked on free, then move them slowly but surely to much more expensive systems. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms. It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. Search for any phrase.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. What I saw, introducing it to two law firms, was that the resistance faded quickly once the system was in place, and users had such better tools to find and work with their documents.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! And, as Dustin pointed out in the comments to my venting post earlier, a lot of this is not the fault of open source desktop software developers. I do demand a lot of my system. Directories were shared. This is my dilemma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. That’s really all it is – there isn’t anything fancy about it. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the limitation of lower revenues and the pressure to cut costs, this is an ideal time to innovate around your operations and systems costs while still funding programs and activities and, yes, increasing investment in donor development. Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. The city of Washington, D.C.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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