Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes. Three recent examples from Forum One’s work with mission-driven organizations show how centering online community engagement allows direct service to key constituencies and builds upon what digital tools can deliver.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. " This means no longer building for desktop users first, then later tweaking for mobile users. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. " Other Open-Source Mobile Tools. Use responsive design.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. Before making a decision, you’ll want to assess your needs and thoroughly research available platforms before making a decision. Compare top platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I keep being surprised by how frequently I hear clients tell me that a vendor has suggested they “build them a CMS,&# or by proposals from vendors that include custom building a CMS. I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website. The web software landscape has changed dramatically over the years.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. Even platforms with no recurring monthly or yearly fee may require a transaction or processing fee to process donations. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We build our tech-for-good products and reach dollar-by-dollar, and therefore every gift makes a difference for the people we serve. Mifos can immediately deploy these new mobile features of its financial inclusion platform, which delivers world-class microcredit services that help open up new opportunities for the poor and their families.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are generally shared short or long codes that use keywords to organize conversations of multiple organizations that use the platform. 0075 per message sent, $500 in-kind grants for nonprofits available ([link] Twilio studio allows for custom message flows but requires some knowledge of platform to customize. Twilio.org.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Build Relationships, Fund Impact with Fundraising Solutions. Build Trusted Relationships, Working Together to Make Change with Program Management Solutions. Interested in learning more?

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. In short, all of them are used to describe digital platforms and services, separated from the presentation layers presented to users, with everything stitched together via APIs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. The platform has grown into a powerful publishing tool where organizations of all sizes can extend their website’s capability.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

The right platforms make it easier to communicate with and engage your members so you can stay on top of renewals and recruiting. There are a lot of options out there and a lot of conflicting information on what these platforms should do for you. To make it easier, here are seven top association management platforms to consider.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

When it comes to choosing a Content Management System to build and manage your website, the choices available might seem a little daunting, especially to a novice just trying to get their feet wet. While many CMSs come and go, for more than five years WordPress has shown itself to be a reliable—and therefore lasting—platform for web design.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Build a Rails app, and deploy it on Heroku. As someone who has managed to learn some Apex , which is, frankly, somewhat of a monster of a programming language, it’s pretty clear that it’s not super easy to build complex apps using it. A well-joined RoR & Salesforce.com platform, all in the cloud, would simply rock. (In

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We BlocPower is able to bring efficient and clean energy to buildings that are often overlooked for investment.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 1, 2013

Soapbox Engage is way to take a stand alone front end for donation and event registration forms and easily get its data to Salesforce…a combination of a platform built on the open source CMS Joomla and Salesforce app.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Building a personalization strategy: crawl, walk, run. For mission-driven organizations, the most common ways to begin personalizing content and outreach are to identify the sources where they are already gathering information or data on audiences and target personas. Start by looking at the data available within your email platform.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Even when there is funding to build a tech solution, perhaps from a large foundation, there is rarely the long-term funding to maintain it, let alone improve it. The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now that Slack is part of the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform, here’s how together we’re creating the digital headquarters for a success-from-anywhere world across the education, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors. But with Slack, they were able to build morale and resiliency.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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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. Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. What are the advantages?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

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. Divided Attention. Can you just tell me what to do? How long is a piece of string?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

Gender Flexible Forms and Fields: We needed a broad range of fields to accommodate members’ diverse gender identities and we couldn’t have that on our forms with our old platform. This prohibited us from building important relationships with our community, including our donors and volunteers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I did the research for the original report released a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while since I’ve come back to comparing these two platforms. WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

They engaged with VRP Consulting, a Salesforce partner, to build that solution, and their experience could not have been more positive: “In five weeks, they made a miracle. Our system was done from scratch, and we are able at last to accept all kinds of donations.”. Making the World Better, Together.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

It takes only a brief look at the impressive statistics surrounding website builder WordPress to realize what an online juggernaut it really is: Currently, nearly 75 million sites are built on the platform and half of all those accounts are hosted directly on the company’s site. registered domain names run exclusively on the platform.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. These ideas are just the beginning.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. Open Source data big data crowdsourcing' Data Use by Citizens.

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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. Stay tuned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. I’m sure that Four Kitchens, and most open source software developers agree with that perspective. More on that in a bit. But Plone was just that much better.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it. Climatelinks.

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