Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Fundraising with all free software. and Drupal. This year, it’s before NTC, on Saturday, April 25.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

In the software sense of the phrase, it is the actual piece of software (most often Apache , but sometimes something different.) That software runs in the background, and and listens to requests, then serves up the data. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

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. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. I’m somewhat of a latecomer to Drupal. Being a pragmatist, I do use proprietary tools, both the Software-as-a-Service, or basic desktop tool types.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m excited about a new Drupal project called “ Red Hen CRM &# but it’s very fledgeling. I’ve installed, configured and administered CiviCRM many times, still work with it, and I have, like most developers, a love/hate relationship with it: I love that it’s open source/free software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well. I’ll probably be talking a lot about Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

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. Tags: Data blackbaud CRM Software Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech. More on those later.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link]. Twitter: @gregoryheller.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

And, for Drupal users, some sweet Views 2 and CCK integration. I’d love to find an organization, such as a small human services organization, in need of case management software, that could use CiviCase - it would be a great, and relatively inexpensive alternative to current offerings out there. The Alpha of 2.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Wifi passwords, firewalls, password protected fileshares, virus protection software, etc. Security of your private data that is “in the cloud&# is largely at the mercy of the software developers who hold your data. are the tools of the trade here. Luckily, most of them take security quite seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when." Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I was at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit , which was an event full of great sessions, meeting neat people of all sorts, and having lots of geeky fun. Advanced Drupal Theming. Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM. Designing RESTful APIs. CiviCRM for Advanced Users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

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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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta). Oh, and jet-packs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 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). 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. Check out their latest reports on the 2103 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? CivicActions blog: [link]. Twitter: @ideaseed.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? Technology nptech' Technology. What is their reputation?

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. and Drupal. Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN Open Source peguin day. The latest agenda can be found here. They encourage anyone who wants to add a session or topic to do so!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Complementing these face-to-face events is the Drupal-based website, which hopefully will encourage ongoing conversation and collaboration among participants. Indeed the entire project is based on the idea of social networking, on encouraging collaboration and discussion.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 25, 2019

A majority of nonprofits use Content Management System (CMS) software tools like WordPress to manage their website. WordPress is by far the most popular of these CMS software tools, but there are many others including Dreamweaver, Joomla, and Drupal, to name a few. System requirements for WordPress. CMS Issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

And then there are those of us in the Nonprofit technology community who are constantly on the bleeding edge of the next thing, whether it be hardware, software, or web services, are constantly talking about it, and how it’s going to make it easier/better/faster to change the world. NEVER, EVER, EVER CHOOSE THESE. Here’s why.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We use all kinds of open source tools, including our content management system, Drupal. It's a difference in how we budget for software more than anything else. So, the old arguments for open source software adoption are dead to me. What does this have to do with open source software? We have here at NTEN. But it works.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Since that time, the field has matured into several key players that contribute distinct value to the nonprofit sector by providing services, software, training, research, and community-building. Holly Ross is former executive director of NTEN, and currently executive director of the Drupal Association.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) has also released a few more drupal integration modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I think with the ease of use that Wiki software and CMS (plone, drupal) systems provide for quick updates, we will see many new mechanisms for groups to get their content/message out and keep their site fresh. Technorati Tags: nptech Blogs have just made it super easy for groups/people to quickly get their thoughts online.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Make sure you use the New Tracking Code (ga.js).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Happy Birthday to drupal !

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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