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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

Darren reports that this was made possible through the Microsoft software and licenses donated through TechSoup. We decided to upgrade the Childnet Results Manager from a local area network based system using Microsoft Access to a web-based system using Microsoft SharePoint 2010, backed with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008.

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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s designed as a basecamp clone. In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) It has some things missing, for sure, but it has been useful to me. However, that won’t happen.

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Microsoft Lync 2013 Overview

Tech Soup

Lync 2013 is essentially enterprise software, which means that it is designed for larger organizations or ones with a professional IT staff or consultants able to set it up. Before placing donation requests for Lync 2013 licensing, it is advisable for you to work with IT staff or IT consultants to devise an architecture plan for deployment.

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Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. He agreed to write this guest post on the topic. There awer too many systems.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) There are multiple ways to ‘play well with others.’ Other companies in the NP space are similar.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

Consumer Reports polled 58,000 subscribers between 2010 and 2015 and found that. All the devices we have are commercial grade IT equipment and are designed for long life and heavy use. Our RCI computers currently come with Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010 Home and Business. Myth 1: New Is Better Than Refurbished.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.