Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

The idea is to take advantage of a PDF’s ability to retain a consistent appearance across different computer systems: to simplify the job of the newsletter editor, who must put together a lot of different reports submitted by the various committee chairs; to enable readers to share the newsletter easily, regardless of.( read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

I’d love to meet new folks and see as many old friends as possible, so I figured I’d share where I’ll be during these days, and perhaps we can meet up. Monday 10:30: Open Source CRM session ( David Geilhufe is moderating, yours truly is a speaker). I can’t wait! Monday Evening: Afterparty @Mezzanine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." She shares four Recommendation Paradigms to Watch.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

He also shares the key points of his presentation here. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Gather with folks and spend an exciting day peer-sharing about free and open source software in nonprofit organizations. Another jam packed year full of great panels and expertise sharing. Tags: Uncategorized nten 09ntc nptech. It’s happening the day before NTC this year, not the day after. April 26-28: NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Lucy Bernholz who has been thinking deeply about the topic, shares her thoughts. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Do you have a NpTech photo to caption and share?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM. Tags: CMS CRM Consulting Database technology Nonprofit Tech civcrm drupal nptech salesforce. And you can follow us on twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. I hope he shares it. My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. " Findhabeas. Freecharity.org.uk

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others?"" Get the Tagline Database and Report!" Would love to hear your reactions.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Thanks to all those who documented and shared! Members are in bold. Scariest part?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) This means that since the code sits in the same exact place, and the databases could even be shared (or not, it’s your choice) in effect, CiviCRM is becoming part of your CMS. It’s a very straightforward integration.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Log in and share with us in the comments. Wearables, Smartphones, and Tablets Galore.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Denver’s Georgina Douglas shares nonprofit website usability tips. Don’t be afraid! August’s NetSquared Events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. Lasica, a social media pioneer who co-founded Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting and sharing site. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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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. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Carnet Williams, of nptech fame, did a demo of Sprout at Demo. You can share these Blists. Sproutbuilder is this amazing drag-and-drop widget maker you’ve just gotta try ( invite here – just start, and it will prompt you to create an account when you want to save your sprout.) Another really amazing tool is Blist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Educate them about the clients needs, and, to some extent, hear about, and share best practices in doing this kind of work. I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. And, I get to be agnostic. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. NTEN is People!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

We're closing in on our final transition to Communities of Practice here at NTEN and are so excited to be able to offer more free learning and networking opportunities for NTEN members and the NPTech community at large. The more folks we have sharing their experiences and knowledge, the more we can move our organizations forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 SO much work on fundraising widgets, but so few vendors in the case management space and even fewer providing an open API. at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head! I can’t agree with you more. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

He not only pushes his organization to integrate technology into its strategy, he helps the entire sector do the same by sharing relentlessly, and smiling while he does it. Flickr Photo: cambodia4kids The Lifetime Acheivement Award is given each year to a person who has pushed the nptech community forward.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Women and Open Source. It's a wonderful opportunity for our community to share our collective wisdom with inspiring stories and practical tools that help women grow professionally and personally -- and, of course, change the world. > Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Video Activism.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Best Practices in Nonprofit IT — Your Chance to Share. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

In 2011, NTEN, with support from the Knight Foundation , convened the CTOs for Good forum and conducted follow-up interviews with the participants in order to document and share the group’s experiences and challenges. CTOs for Good is a small group of chief technology officers (CTOs) at innovative nonprofits focused on scale and engagement.

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