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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

Understand The Tools You Choose For Your Organization Whether it’s a preexisting feature, a newly licensed add-on, or a standalone product harnessing generative AI, invest time in understanding its terms of service, data privacy expectations, and how your usage contributes to overall tool improvement.

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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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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Actually, the twitter API only returns the last 1500 (I scrolled back as far as I could from the search tool). cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. I resisted using the title of “report card”. Previously, On NMC….