Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Windows Phone 8 , Microsoft's next generation mobile operating system, has improved backup features from Windows 7. You can change your backup settings by going to Settings > System > Backup. Windows Phone 7 lacks data backup, but Microsoft's cloud storage service, SkyDrive , is built into the operating system.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Outdoor Music Festival. List of nonprofit donation platforms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. It seems cool, and a great alternative to freconference.com. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. Committee Caller seems like an amazing tool. And it’s free, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. Elgg is the open source social network management system. I use these tools because I haven’t found open source alternatives for these functions that work as well, or are as user friendly. There are a lot of good reasons to consider this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I make sure that music on Pandora is on the agenda for at least half the day. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share). Silence is also good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. Millions more are already using Google's Android mobile operating system and, additionally, a Google tablet prototype was unveiled recently. Smartphone sales are soaring , with 54.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS. The number of situations where one can still argue on a functional and cost level that proprietary software is a better bet get fewer and fewer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

We train professional musicians, because music soothes the savage beast.” Then, you can offer an alternative way to think about the situation. One which enables you and your donor to make beautiful music. “We feed people, because no one should be hungry.” “We We plant trees, because they help heal our planet.” “We

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems. Four years ago while meeting on my living room floor, a group of volunteers devised our cataloging system. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s an engaging format, and for those who don’t enjoy running 5Ks, a dance-a-thon is a great alternative to get your fundraisers moving in a fun way. Every dance-a-thon fundraiser requires music, so finding a DJ to help you spin tunes all dance-a-thon long is a great option. How to plan a dance-a-thon fundraiser.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 2:44 am Speaking about Open Source SaaS, I think people do not think of it as about being able to tinker with ‘open source codes’ but more about lower cost of obtaining the tools simple enough to be efficient for the users as against the pricey proprietary alternatives. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

The first couple of steps are done: - Set up switch box so I can bounce back and forth from my old system to new system from one monitor and keyboard. Create the master list of what needs to be ported over or installed on new system (config. Identify what software won't work on the 64 bit system and find alternatives (esp.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Alternately, you can sponsor a trip to a local pumpkin patch with entry fees going towards your nonprofit. Just click the button below to find a demo that works for you.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to see the system in action, request a personal demo that’s customized to your nonprofit’s needs. Concert Bring together local music lovers for an unforgettable evening that highlights your nonprofit’s mission. To learn more about Neon Fundraise, click the button below. Annual Gala Ah, the old standby.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It is a time of families gathering together, meals and music, and a moment to remember those less fortunate. With an emphasis on the cycle of life, if you’re looking for an alternative to add into the run up to the holidays, Día de los Muertos is a great celebration to build rapport around.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

We need to create positive creative alternatives. Which is more appealing to tell people that they are on the Titanic and it is sinking, or to sail by in a boat that is green, with great food and fun music and ask them to come on board. The progressive movement is learning that merely protesting is not enough.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

I have a master's degree from Drexel University in Information Systems and saw most of my classmates go to major corporations. Moving to the cloud is a technical process – just like moving to a new on-premise system. Sam Chenkin: I’ve been with Tech Impact a long time – a little over 6 years. It is neither.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Rapidfire acquisition of smaller players so that you can wrap it up into a system of systems seems to be their strategy for now. It will include custom open source CRM, Web Content Management and enhanced payment system. David Zeidman 3 Jim Barney 08.07.07 at 9:24 am Excellent summary. We will fill the void.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

There are lots of other software systems out there, so no longer do you have to pay $20,000 to get Raiser’s Edge. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. Many mail houses and data systems. Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

For pagination I understand you can have multiple paginators per page with ajax but from what I’ve seen the whole system asumes you’ll be paginating one thing at a time so it’s more of a workaround than anything else. The alternative would be to use 1.1 There are tricks like this [link] which I personally find ugly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

You need to capture the consumer with your free content and then extract value through alternate channels… ads, products, services, memberships, etc.&# [link] This resonated for me: “Content is no longer a value generator… it is a consumer capturer. 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Alternatives to Substack: Substack may not suit everyone and before you add a platform consider these alternatives: Website Content: Focus on growing and building your organization’s website for SEO and engagement first. The authors aim to “clear out the gunk in the system and move the party left.”

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