Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. I’ve already talked on this blog about Salesforce integration with Drupal , Plone , and others. A partner we work with has done a lot of work with this application, and we’re pretty interested in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website. Categories of integration address “what” you might do to meet your goals, and how you would do it. Open source. Open Source – API. Create on-site engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My project is associated with the ‘Go Read’ Android application. Therefore, the application will be extended to allow users to download newspapers and magazines as well as books.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. Open-source P2P texting platform great for managing field work that uses Heroku, AWS, and Twilio. FrontlineSMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

(And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). First, the software available, whether it be open source, SaaS, or proprietary, is much better all round.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Basecamp’s Writeboards seem so much more like an add on than integrated. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Basecamp’s Writeboards seem so much more like an add on than integrated. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. The ability to integrate with many systems and bring organization-wide conversations into one centralized location in Slack is invaluable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM. We are focused on delivering quality web technology solutions to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. And you can follow us on twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Shawn particularly focused on the different integration options as well as resources to help organizations get the most out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Project Hosting for Open Source Software - an open source project community hosted by Microsoft.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about CMS and CRM, and increasingly the integration between them. Once I get this blog post done, I can clean out that “To Blog&# inbox.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

The Application. The “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production). More on Booster Pro.) Best Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. because it’s open source, there are no license fees, just the work on design and content.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant…. I've been….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications. First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I was profiled on Linux.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. Code published in PHP and Python would probably get a lot more people up to speed and interested in building stuff that will integrate with the things that a lot of nonprofits really use. - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting. That’s good news. APIs are here to stay. In fact, they are the future.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms. Sites where you want complex control over multiple content types – how they are created and viewed. eCommerce sites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. The API is SOAP. apps out there. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits. Be Helpful.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

EHR-Integrated Performance Improvement: Uncertainty around the U.S. We think it’s likely that we’ll see a successful pilot integration of EHR data with an external LMS in the next three years. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out – what kinds of integration will be possible between social network data and CRM data? And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# you the picture. A universal service for the masses.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. He not only pushes his organization to integrate technology into its strategy, he helps the entire sector do the same by sharing relentlessly, and smiling while he does it. Along the way, we make it fun.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Extensive Integrations: LXPs are often made to integrate with a variety of systems that your learning business uses to manage your members, whether it’s your association management software, membership management software, or something else. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2005

My colleague, David Geilhufe , recently announced the first public beta release of CiviCRM/OpenNGO, an open-source contact management system for non-profits. It doesn't stop there. A CiviCRM in Khmer translation has been started on the server! David's email pointed to this news item.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Unlike credit card companies, airlines or any number of other consumer-oriented businesses, nonprofits today still depend largely on employees to manually integrate all information about each constituent for marketing purposes. Gone are the days of complex, expensive integrations between databases. You can read all the details here. ].

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