Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money. Here is why your organization should say no to creating microsites: 1. Divided Brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How was it organized? Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. Convio or Causes? And if you???re

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

It's a valuable resource for small and mid-sized organizations that are considering options for their CMS solution (for website content management). It includes a summary comparison matrix for a quick reference, detailed product reviews, plus a directory of consultants that can help nonprofits select and/or implement solutions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs. Or these organizations will simply cease to exist. Open Content for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. Thanks for the comments!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Also mentioned is NGOs competition from peer-to-peer type grassroots relief efforts as smaller community-driven organizations use technology to operate on the same level as bigger NGOs. open government data to improve education and health care, decrease energy consumption and increase socially minded buying. Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. After all, those organizations must know what works when it comes to IT -- they spend a lot more time and money on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

with a detailed account of her organization's experience. is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! And, Rob gives us a second example of nonprofit organization on Facebook. Freecharity.org.uk Expo Ignite!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Britt Bravo lays out -- in steps and concepts we can all grasp -- how blogging can fit into your organization's overall communications plan. NTEN member organization MPower rebrands itself as Orange Leap (and NTEN's Holly Ross appreciates it ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

To vote, read through the Voting Guidelines , and their handy Voter Guide , which includes short summaries of the 150+ nominated projects. Open Source, Open Standards Video. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning. Point K.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . The listener could then choose a specific summary to listen to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. Do you read the summaries? But give it time. How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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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. Here's a summary of what we found. The new version also somewhat simplifies organization and display of content items.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I spent 8 years implementing technology “solutions&# for nonprofit organizations. This was in the solidly web 1.0 Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For nonprofit organizations, some website builders offer specific features tailored to their unique needs like donation processing, event registration, volunteer sign-up, members-only pages, and more. To that end, the system sports a ton of nonprofit-specific features to help you and your organization maximize your online footprint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Robin Good's site has published a summary of a report by Australian Flexible Learning Framework called " Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals and Organizations " Reading the live blogging from the PDF Conference and twittering is making a lot of us wish we were there.

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Care2

MAY 15, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube. Not sure if they reached their threshold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). It is important to think about the fact that dollars raised by nonprofit organizations are going to Blackbaud’s investors whose major interest in Blackbaud is the profit it can produce.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Does your nonprofit’s website tell a clear story of your organization, or a watered-down mixture of several stories? Tips for Designing (or Redesigning) a Nonprofit Website The guidelines in this classic article can help you plan and design a polished, functional website that meets your organization's needs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Does your nonprofit’s website tell a clear story of your organization, or a watered-down mixture of several stories? Tips for Designing (or Redesigning) a Nonprofit Website The guidelines in this classic article can help you plan and design a polished, functional website that meets your organization's needs.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Take dynamic speakers from your organization, put in front of the microphone, and help share their passion and stories. Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Can import other sources well. Has multiple tracks, etc.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

We see a group of organizations adopting the platform – a psychographic more than a demographic, in this case. We believe that for those organizations, the Salesforce.com platform is the right solution and we want to support them with the best nonprofit-specific solution on that platform. The markets are distinct.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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