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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was having lunch with a friend this week, who runs a small advocacy organization in Canada, that relies heavily on the use of email lists. I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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5 Tips for Creating Impact with Omnichannel Marketing

Forum One

Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. Brand awareness, advocacy, and social media tools to manage and support your brand. Take and agile approach. Your omnichannel strategy will need to be able to adapt to your digital landscape over time.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. Day USA East is October 15th.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. It requires very little maintenance.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. It requires very little maintenance.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site? " You read an excerpt here.

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Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This means that the “big three&# nonprofit CRM/Fundraising/Advocacy vendors will all be publicly traded companies, and thus completely beholden to their shareholders to maximize profit. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? Convio has registered to go public. But, hey, why not?

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