Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Nonprofits don’t use e-commerce much, but I’ve had some experience (on both sides of the profit fence) doing e-commerce, and for some reason, shopping carts are intriguing me at the moment, and I figure its a good time to know what’s out there, especially in the open source shopping cart world. Some open source, some not.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

Users also report difficulty in setting up the software for the first time and migrating data. Price CiviCRM’s base plan is free but users can customize it by purchasing additional modules separately. Costs can increase quickly as modules and features are added.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. 1) Drupal Organic Groups: Organic Groups is a module of Drupal, which allows for discussions, wikis and the like. It’s a very powerful tool, and combined with other drupal modules, there is a lot you can do with it.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. Factors like weather, time of day, and significant cultural events can all be used to more effectively target visitors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

I know a lot of pretty serious geeks read this blog, but I also know some folks who aren’t do too, and I figured it was time to do a quick outline of web application frameworks, and how they differ from things like a CMS. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

My next step is to try and create a simple theme (so I understand how theming works,) and write a module (so I understand how modules work.) As well, I’m still honing my WordPress skills, mostly in the realm of dealing with themes and moving the darn things around and upgrading from ancient versions.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

For open-source options, perhaps the most well known operating today is WordPress, free for its basic version and still very affordable if you choose to upgrade features. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { Ive been using CMSs for a while now and Im really involved with wordpress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The stalwart of open-source platforms, WordPress has dominated the CMS world and will absolutely continue to do so in the next year. And of the top one million sites on the planet, more than 300,000 of them are based on the WordPress CMS. Like WordPress it’s an open-source platform, allowing users to modify and share code freely.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. It may still require somebody’s time to encourage participation and perhaps do a little re-formatting and re-organizing. Some are huge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

and WordPress, to be fair) as having notably bad [emphasis mine] security, they’re also both based on one superficial metric: self-reported vulnerabilities.&# Because, indeed, it does have more reported security vulnerabilities than Plone (as do Joomla and WordPress.) Solid, which is only one step below Excellent. “itâ??s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I wrote a blogging module into my web database project, Xina, more than 4 years ago. The time and effort it would take to maintain a blog isn’t going to result in any better accomplishment of mission. Heck, yes (in fact, it was for this organization that I originally wrote the blogging module that I mentioned above.)

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

It helps you use your donor data to deliver the right message at the right time to the right donor. Salsa Engage focuses on online engagement with digital marketing and your choice of multiple other modules and starts at $179 a month. This way, you’ll have more time to mingle with your guests, strengthening your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Membership software for nonprofits helps automate communications and tracking, saving your staff time and preventing unneeded stress on your team members. Save time through automation. Users can leverage an optional module called RE:Member to manage memberships. Fonteva Fonteva is a membership management tool for Salesforce.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2021

Google suggests you use these next-generation formats because it will reduce load time and data consumption. Instead, install a Drupal module or WordPress plugin that automatically creates a WebP version of all images and serves these new images to supporting browsers only. What you should do next. What you should do next.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2017

As much as is said about the sheer versatility of the WordPress platform—available for everyone from simple e-commerce sites to mega-corporations, media outlets, design firms etc.—it Of course, as with all things WordPress, there is no “one size fits all” thinking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. 3 Javier Barreira 02.21.08 Yes and yes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I really value that he took the time to engage in the conversation and the learning process.). I was looking for jobs at that time, having just graduated, and I wanted to create some kind of portfolio. But I soon realized WordPress was the better option for what I wanted to create. George Orwell wrote a piece once called ???Why

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. WordPress WordPress is a great choice for fairly small (a few hundred pages or less), simply arranged websites.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Representatives from Energy Action Coalition were present at the hearing and were using Twitter to send updates from the White House in real time to those on the outside following along.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

I seem to spend inordinate amounts of time responding to people (proprietary software vendors, to be specific) harping on the idea that “open source software is free&# is a myth , and blathering on about how it’s not really free, because you have to hire a geek to install it, and maintain it, and blah blah blah.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

In tough economic times - and with a potentially bad holiday donation season fast approaching - tracking the success of your site in converting every lead possible will be more important than ever. First, Google Analytics delays processing data for at least 12 hours, not real-time. And its relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Though I feel the time spent disputing could be better spent recruiting. offer real-time valuable information for people affected and their families. wordpress bc of ease of publishing. saw that we were recreating the wheel each time and needed to adjust to one URL. Session Content 1. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake. There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another. click to install or unstall -- and not time consuming. Typepad has integrated widgets into the.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM acts in Drupal like a module, and in Joomla like a component. has also released a few more drupal integration modules. That said, I’ve run it successfully on shared hosts in Joomla for a long time and am not and IT person in any way. Each version has gotten easier even as newer functionality has been added.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2011

While it offers modules for library hours, upcoming programs, and other custom content, One-Pager presumes that the majority of library website visitors are coming to the site to search for materials and puts that activity front and center. Enter One-Pager. It's a library website that focuses on one core user activity: searching.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

” , Rob Pierson, Online Communications Director for Congressman Mike Honda and soon to be New Media Director for the House Democratic Caucus, said that sending enewsletters to your online list is the best bang for your buck when you have limited time and resources. Integrate Social Media Across Your Communications Times have changed.

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