Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We knew the event would get a lot of public attention so a few months ago, my organization had a brainstorm about it. Earlier this week, the world turned 7 billion. Yes, 7 billion people. It’s a strangely large number that can freak people out and put them to sleep at the same time.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

When assessing your options, pay attention to each system’s intuitiveness and approach to these features. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Compare top platforms.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

This laser focus can be helpful in grabbing attention and driving results. If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. egypt.see3.net/.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

"" Free Access: Nonprofit Tagline Database & Report | Nonprofit Marketing | Getting Attention – "Don't miss the just-released, all-new Nonprofit Tagline Database with 4,800+ organizational, program, fundraising campaign and special event taglines. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

When you learn more about effective communication with your supporters, you’ll be the source of more effective and efficient relationship-building at the organization. When you focus your attention on better fundraising, you’ll be able to lead the way in your organization raising more and using your funds more efficiently.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

As soon as people go online, whether it’s on their phones or computers, they are instantly bombarded with organizations and companies vying for their attention. Be sure you use it to its maximum potential and provide all of the information your supporters should pay attention to.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? functionality. Not always, but often.) Be Helpful.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Long-time users of Twitter are concerned about hate and harassment after Elon Musk recently acquired the company, as some accounts that were previously banned for violating the platform’s content policies are now reinstated.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. And that’s because in the enterprise world, for the most part, open source software is a given part of the mix. I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

What we weren’t paying attention to was how we brought the advantages we carry in our offline lives– often defined by race, gender, class, and now, technological access and skill– to that blank canvas." Read the full post to hear both David's take, and suggestions for success from Patrick Meier. "DeadUshahidi’s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

This year, for the first time, IDPD is commemorated with supporting sub-themes (see the full list here ), to draw attention to key issues that come into play in the intersection of disability and development processes. The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. High level of attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to balance/manage multiple simultaneous tasks on your own.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Don’t Tell the Donor talks about a dustup between Greenpeace and the Salvation Army. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Susan Bazilli, an international human rights attorney, recently brought Martus to the attention of the women's rights community in Africa, through a posting to the Women's Information Technology Transfer site. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. In this view, the attention economy does not operate separately from the cash economy; it’s simply a means of creating cheap inputs for the cash economy. . Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2010

I think the current economic situation has led to a lot of belt tightening, which has had some not so great repercussions in the nonprofit sector, but has also caused a greater attention to results, metrics and accountability. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Getting Attention talks about boosting blog coverage – it can have good offline benefits for your organization. Generative Transformation talks about what leadership is , and means – particularly that it means self-awareness. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

This tweetschat group has recently been talking about the net neutrality issues being debated in the US, and how Europe should be paying attention. . Upcoming 501 Tech Club Events: Long Island: May 5th, Syosset: Two Speakers: Open Source Software, and HIPPA Requirements. Scariest part? It's a true story.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Nancy Schwartz, Getting Attention. As the nonprofit landscape gets increasingly complex, money and attention are tougher than ever to get. The challenge of branding in an open source world. You can get more nonprofit marketing guidance via her Getting Attention blog ( www.GettingAttention.org ) and e-updates ( [link] ).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. What mobile trends are capturing your attention? The standout feature of the G Pro 2 is the fact that its camera can capture 4K resolution video. Are you following Mobile World Congress? Image 1: miuet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

On YouTube the attention span is very short 15 hrs of footage uploaded every minute. grab attention quickly. Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. It will be launching in a few days. psa don't work. David Greenberg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. Rashmi Sinha asked me if I would do a session on how to present for nonprofits at the upcoming presentation camp. I adopted the word archiloquy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. Your supporters can now easily spread your message, and just as easily market it. social media nancy schwartz 09NTC.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Sometimes you only have moments to get people’s attention before they move on. Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Your website is often the first introduction people get to the amazing work you do to change the world. www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com).

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