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CiviCRM Developer Camp

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, for Drupal users, some sweet Views 2 and CCK integration. I’d love to find an organization, such as a small human services organization, in need of case management software, that could use CiviCase - it would be a great, and relatively inexpensive alternative to current offerings out there. The Alpha of 2.3

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. I’m somewhat of a latecomer to Drupal. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Then, throughout the ASPCA website, the sidebar alternates CTAs customized for that particular page.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .

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How’s yer CMS?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The single largest CMS used was Drupal, at 15%, followed by Plone and Joomla (approx 8% each.) I think here will come a day when 5-10 great open source CRM alternatives, each of which integrates nicely with your CMS of choice, will become a reality. Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface. Next step — CRM.

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Cake vs. Symfony

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. The alternative would be to use 1.1 They both have good documentation and active communities. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One feature I liked was that Pathable has an API for creating accounts, so I was able to roll that into our conference registration on our drupal site, and it populated their Pathable account with their organization, blog url, delicious url, flickr url, twitter url, etc (if they had added that to their drupal profile on NMC’s site).