Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Reliance on third party(ies).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. This enables free services (Google Docs) and cloud vendors can offer product donations as part of their corporate citizenship programs (NetSuite.org). Reliance on third party(ies).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

I personally liked the definition presenter Peter Campbell, of Earthjustice , used: an outsourced platform, application, or suite of applications delivered over the Internet. Platforms as a service: you rent server space, bandwidth, and the tools to help you build or customize web-based applications ( Salesforce , for example).

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Over 180 people with over 635,000 total followers signed up to participate by authorizing Epic Change to post via their Twitter account using JustCoz , an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you. Stacey felt it was a great tool, but they didn't use it effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. As applications come in, the VC helps to narrow the pool, coordinate interviews, and run background checks. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Share it in the comments.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And you should have technology that allows you to come together with other nonprofits, government agencies, private sector partners, and the communities you serve so you don’t have to go it alone. But technology is a critical enabler to make more of those moments of impact possible. The answer to how this happens is interoperability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? Out of all this work, a software application was born, called MEMBERS ONLY, a modular application for nonprofit CRM.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Try out new technologies on your own when you get a chance.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

With only 7 people working for them on a daily basis in Jerusalem, along with 1 in Tel Aviv and 3 in NY, they rely on technology to do the rest of the work. PT used technology from day one, says Simi Hinden, the director of the online community. Online Collaboration. "Google was our first office", Simi explains.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

What's the most immediately useful application of Web 2.0 Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. Delicious is an online bookmarking system that makes it easy for you to "tag" websites of interest and save them on a single webpage. tools to your museum? the list goes on. I like Wik.is

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. e-Newsletter. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years. npCloud provides cloud-based technology products and services to nonprofits. e-Newsletter [see right column].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. e-Newsletter. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. e-Newsletter. It is a must download!

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