Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You may not want to change how you currently manage donors, which means you’d like to invest as little as possible in a different solution or approach to donor management. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. And no, the possibility of getting a “bad&# comment is not enough to disable the option for people to share their ideas, support and encouragement. Prepare to Change Directions. MoveableType. Squarespace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 01.21.08 Anyway, it’s worth checking out. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. It looks interesting. at blogged.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 Ive been using CMSs for a while now and Im really involved with wordpress. It is unfortunate – it would be great to be able to get lots of themes for free (like for WordPress – the theme I’m using was a free one.) 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. In terms of lead generation platforms, for WordPress sites, Thrive Leads is the go-to plugin. Depending on the topic of the post the headline and call to action changes: 6. MaxTraffic.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. We focused on action and making change for the patient. Change is terrifying. Spending money on change is horrifying. The way I saw it, if we were going to make this kind of leap, now was the time to do it when we were still small.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 25, 2019

Website management tools like WordPress leave your nonprofit’s website vulnerable to attack, hacking or being held hostage. A majority of nonprofits use Content Management System (CMS) software tools like WordPress to manage their website. The popularity of WordPress makes it a top target for hacking and attacks. CMS Issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Colalife: make it real This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world. Filed under ideas , video. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. I’ve got tons of peripherals, I’m constantly changing and modifying things – I’m a power user.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Your website is often the first introduction people get to the amazing work you do to change the world. If your site is on WordPress you might consider using the WP-Touch plugin. Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2016

We create the bulletin with the intent that each and every church member will hold on, write copious amounts of spiritually inspired notes from the sermon, and hang on to them indefinitely, cataloged in a special file folder at home (OK, I digress; that's probably just me). Most of us don't like change too much. Not even once.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 I had been encouraged to look again at Yugma , because they said that Linux desktop sharing would happen before the end of last year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option. I’ll keep you posted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 7:32 pm Change » Blog Archive » Web conferencing redux 12.08.07 at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2024

The list is far from exhaustive – please comment to add your own! They’ll keep your bookkeeping and financials up to date so you can get the statements and records you need for loan-winning applications, tax filing, and more handled efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. Is my perspective already shared in the comments? I'm nervous.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We were taking photos of the wall every week and the changes that were taking place. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? We use Wordpress to power our blogs.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, dont feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. allows you to backup the files by recording to multiple devices. Want one that recrods to mp3 or wav files (will be sending mp3 out for production eventually). File size - length depends on the format of your show.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. at 11:56 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe 11.06.08 Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Change your organization's culture, work style, and tools to "look more like a cloud. He said: If you can permute your organization so that it looks more like the cloud, you’ll have an easier time working with the cloud. As an Employee - become more aware of the changing nature of work, and the traditional structures of authority.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

at 12:12 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robert Fischer 07.14.08 If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use. And from now on, instead of writing some long-winded response, I’m just going to put in a link to this post. { This of course is rubbish.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mark Bledsoe 08.23.07 I’ll be announcing it, for sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? The best comment line can be found at Emergency Trap Blog. I'm so excited! go shopping for widgets.

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