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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

NTEN

Ongoing maintenance is a necessity, unless you choose Drupal Gardens , an affordable solution for simple sites. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? The more people who need to contribute, the more you will need to budget for training, and the more helpful it will be to have some Drupal know-how in-house.

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The Future of Nonprofit Technology: Some Predictions

NTEN

More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs. But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. So just to say really, that we should be mindful that as well as the biggies out there that we all know about, we should promote and participate in other great FOSS CMS that are futureproofed and adaptable for the nptech world too! (If

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Check Out the New & Improved NTEN Member Directory (Thanks, User Testing!)

NTEN

Next, we designed a simple template for the testing sessions, consisting of six basic tasks for the users to try to complete -- i.e. “Find a Drupal Developer”, or “Find NTEN Members near you” -- in about 15 minutes. fill out your Bio and Org Description fields). Tags: NPTech NTEN. Haven't done it yet?

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets.

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From Humanities Major to Career NPtechie in Two Easy Steps

NTEN

You found you had a knack for technology and you became your org's go-to person for computer problems. I work with our Executive Director to determine how we integrate technology into our programs and make decisions that affect the overall direction of our org. There are also Drupal conferences, NOSI conferences. TechSoup.org.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. " Web 2.0,

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