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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

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They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Drawing from experience, we have a few ideas about why that could be, and how Drupal can help. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use.

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CRM&CMS Integration: Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and NetCommunity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions. I didn’t get a very close look at the CMS (I’m wishing in retrospect that I had), but the little bit I did see of it suggested to me that it was somewhat more limited than CMS systems such as Drupal or Plone. More on those later.

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NetSquared October Event Preview

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Guatemala: Drupal Camp de Guatemala - 2013. Houston, TX: Use Your Tech Powers for Good - Volunteer! Creative Commons licensed by Neal Gillis. Portland, OR: Mobile tips and tools for civic and social good. Thursday, October 3. Tuesday, October 8. Warsaw, Poland: NetWtorek meetup. Photo: My Geek-o-Lantern.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Tech Person: “We do?”. Nonprofit Tech Person: “OK, but you know it will cost around $30,000 to build an app for the iPhone. Nonprofit Tech Person: “Yes it is. because it’s open source, there are no license fees, just the work on design and content. Don’t Build That App. And an iPad app.”. something on here.”.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09 Drupal basically allows this really nicely, a bit harder in Joomla (IMO). Actually Drupal/CiviCRM was going to be my first follow up post!

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NetSquared Goes to 15NTC. And Your Hometown Too

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501 Tech Club Austin in Austin, Texas. Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club in Kansas City, Missouri. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. WordPress and Drupal Days #15NTC. Image Name: Author / License. Austin, Texas.