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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Build vs “Buy”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

(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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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Be Helpful.

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits? Be Helpful.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. What is Openness?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Technical consideration: The site should be built on a non-proprietary platform rather than Ning to address privacy concerns. income, age, etc.). Vote for this Idea].

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