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Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.

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Tech Tools to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Tech Soup

Save those 10 minutes you spent fumbling through paper while on the phone by clicking on a computer file. Save money on files, file cabinets, printer ink, and paper itself. securely locked away in electronic files that only you can access. – lets you share secure PDF files between any computer, build PDF.

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Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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Reach for the Cloud with Microsoft Services

Tech Soup

All you need to use them is a modern web browser such as Internet Explorer 9. You can keep a private backup, share documents and photo albums with friends, or access your files on the go. You can also use a Live Mesh folder to automatically synchronise up to 5 gigabytes of files with your SkyDrive.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. In addition, each person needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating digital information for later retrieval.

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