I am a strong advocate for spending the time directly with software vendor sales and technical support to explore software tools. Most software offers many more features than you expect, and have unique approaches to solving data management challenges. Tags: evaluation software Get your technology ready!

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. CoreFTP — FTP client software: [link]. Hijack This — Restores Windows settings that have been altered or hijacked by software and malware: [link]. ZoneAlarm — PC firewall software: [link].

The other is simplification of the software. What is the difference between CRM and Membership Management? Isn't the latter just CRM for a member-based organization? This is the kind of discussion you hear over Italian cold-cuts on a ciabatta at our office. The answer is: not really. Membership is where CRM meets Business Process Management.

While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software For its nearly 20 million monthly visitors, this means a rate increase. We will phase out our free service."

This summer, we had a rash of requests to talk about web site options. am writing this after a neighbor who has never previously talked tech with me literally stopped me in the street about her organization’s site. Here’s the problem. redesign today isn’t that different than it was five years ago. The process is about the same. by Laura S.

From the Foundation Center's RFP bulletin: The Tides Foundation Invites Nominations for Award Honoring Open Source Software Developers Who Add Value to Nonprofit Sector. The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Tags: Software read more.

Standard advice is that you will need additional, expensive bandwidth optimizing software in order to make it bearable on a WAN. Tags: software content management data management microsoft tech planning Intranet Sharepoint 2007 (aka MOSS) is not free, but I can pick it up via Techsoup for a song. So, why does Sharepoint scare me?

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. We talk much more about the value and values that free and open source software bring to the table.

Every now and then you see an article about how - real soon now - the art of crafting software will be radically de-skilled. mission critical software applications. In fact, Jeff Palermo thinks writing software has already gotten too easy. Tools today make custom software too easy to develop. It is already.

CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development. Being a pragmatist, I do use proprietary tools, both the Software-as-a-Service, or basic desktop tool types. Panic software makes really good stuff. Tags: tools opensource Open Source Software nptech