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Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. Joining TechSoup should be the first technology task for your new nonprofit. Ask before signing up!

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MARCH 24, 2021

This guide is here to help you create a strong foundation for your first web build project, setting you up for success a few years down the line when you’re reading to work with a consultant like Team DNL. WordPress, HubSpot, and Drupal are common choices in the nonprofit sector and beyond.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The Ning issue touches on a topic that’s very important to me and I’ve written about a number of times, including: Letting Technology Lead , Why we need a new way of building , How our tools define ‘community’ and Ning saying No to free networks. We also consulted with people in the Chain Reaction network.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

To help, we’ve included a directory of consultants with experience installing and implementing the systems in this report, organized by geographical region. The consultant you work with can also help determine which CMS you end up choosing, and can make or break your website project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The need to have a Google account will come up many times in your social media and mobile technology campaigns. For organizational reasons, you could opt to use the Gmail e-mail account that you created for your nonprofit when setting up your Google account for all social media and mobile technology accounts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Ive been using CMSs for a while now and Im really involved with wordpress.

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APRIL 15, 2009

And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible. Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go. Make sure access is secure. If the provider goes belly up with your data, you’re toast.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. 2 admin 11.22.07

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

He talks about data “accessibility&# , “visibility&# , “removal&# and “ownership&# – all things that, to my mind, are components of data portability. I’m involved in the evangelism action group. .&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 26, 2023

Plus, applying for the program means you’ll receive access to free analytics tools like Google Analytics and Google Tag manager to track ad performance. In addition to helping you access the Google Grant application, registering with the appropriate entity also gives your organization a few other perks.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. They will also be doing some serious UI overhauls, and upgrading their CMS.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 Open-access is right. know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 It allows nonprofits free access to data that they would normally not have access to (like mapping data), or would have to pay a lot for. for geeks is APIs.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? I also have to wonder (shudder) how many home grown Access and Filemaker databases fall into the “Other&# category of the survey, almost 20% of the total.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. and pretty good, and improving fast.)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

that are incredibly helpful, and provide things that really do connect people, and help people decide in a much more granular way what they want to read, and have access to. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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JULY 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. It’s as good as Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 but not as good as the current Outlook Web Access product. It sometimes tastes yucky.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2024

Strategy, Consultation, & Resources While we may not be able to offer direct consultation on your social media or marketing strategy, the good news is there are already fantastic existing resources that do this well. The list is far from exhaustive – please comment to add your own!

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like?

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Broadband, Day 1 March 5, 2007 Dial up just wasn’t going to cut it. Verizon sales folk promise the moon, the tech guys explained I’m at the far end of dsl access.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? I think though, that even if technical requirements (protocols etc) are met, the other big challenge is to package it in a way accessible to mainstream users.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. The API is SOAP.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. 3) Deborah Finn’s Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Jasper, Indiana: Hotspots and Wireless Access Points. Chicago, Illinois: Making Tech Accessible to Nonprofits. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Seattle, Washington: Catalyst Consultant Orientation. Houston, Texas: The Legal Side of Nonprofit Technology. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Technologies and Strategies for Nonprofit Engagement. Thursday, July 9, 2015.

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MAY 21, 2007

Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones. The next step was to get online. That’s the first snag. I had to go command line in order to get online.

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