Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. That’s super depressing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

&# O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Worth a read! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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AUGUST 16, 2007

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. We all don’t need to be on the bleeding edge to get stuff done. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. .&# tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07 at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. The Socialbrite team members make their living through paid services to client organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. The first article, on Mac database options , just got published last week. One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. I am glad some people are enjoying themselves. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? There are some great tips in this Wired article. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Watch the demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. { They are worth a read. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. { Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Nonprofit Tech for Good is built on WordPress and in our 11 years of publication, there have been zero problems with using the platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. “ Find much more on how this work was accomplished in Michael Silberman’s article in the Huffington Post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. Novell I think the article says pretty much everything that needs to be said about Novell, and SUSE Linux. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. “ Find much more on how this work was accomplished in Michael Silberman’s article in the Huffington Post.

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. WordPress WordPress is a great choice for fairly small (a few hundred pages or less), simply arranged websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06 Be Helpful.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Their unlimited live support includes phone and email support, and don’t forget their online articles, videos, and webinars are all here to help, too! Whether you use Drupal, WordPress or Joomla, you can use your two favorite software seamlessly and in conjunction to make your life easier and more organized. CiviCRM is totally free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

There are 18 articles. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this article, we’re going to break down 10 of the top website builders for nonprofits currently available and lay out a “shopping list” of features that you should look for when researching a new website solution. No, with WordPress, you’re going to have to do a lot more custom building and design work to construct your site.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Learn more in this article from Mashable. Several developers at the Net Tuesday meeting also recommended the FLS plug-in for Drupal and WordPress." . - Originally an April Fools joke from Google, Gmail motion has been turned into reality. suggested by Palak Timbadiya via Linkedin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

But this article isn’t about CF, it’s about technology change. If it is a relatively new CMS (like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others) they may not need to bring in a new developer – they may just be able to get a book, or buy a video to teach them how to use the web interface to create new regions and widgets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 at 6:27 am First off, glad you liked the article.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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