NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team. Current Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). So far, it’s been largely painless.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I

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JANUARY 29, 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 #6: Joomla! I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta). Oh, and jet-packs.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This year''s general sessions are a diverse line up that we at NTEN hope will help you continue to change the world through technology. And who better to talk to us about the connections, learning, and changes in our world but from you, the community, directly? Thank you to everyone who sent in their ideas!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We'd love to check it out, so please post the link in the comments, or add it to this open Google spreadsheet. Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. Why Fundraisers are Failing at Storytelling -- and What They Need to Change , Lori Jacobwith. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. If I'm not mistaken, a somewhat famous social activist once said, " You must be the change you want to see in the world." I attended "In Code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness" at SXSWi on Friday. Participatory.

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Care2

APRIL 1, 2013

Today I’m pleased to announce the start of open voting to select the winner of our third annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both. Now it's up to members of the NTEN community (that means you!)

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

The virtual Women Who Tech Telesummit which happens via internet audio and the web provides some of the most web thought-provoking, inspiring, and skills building sessions for nonprofit campaigners and social change makers. Register now! AFP TechKnow – June 4-5th.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 3 sudha 01.15.09

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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. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. More orgs will hire CTOs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

Lucy Bernholz's " Open Philanthropy: A Modest Manifesto " is awesome. Seth Godin raises a good question : should we link to another cat video or to something that may inspire you to change the world (but isn't as funny)? Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. It's make-you-cry funny. Parts, anyway.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support. OK, enough of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? The Development Seed Blog recaps the multi-lingual Drupal session at DrupalCon in Spain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. NpTech Community. Freecharity.org.uk Paul Lamb might.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. In fact, many government organizations are embracing open data and releasing their data sets to the general public via APIs. What are APIs?

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2014

NTEN Communities of Practice (CoPs) are affinity groups centered on specific topics of interest, from community management to Drupal to nonprofits in the arts. We asked NTEN''s great CoP organizers to help us understand why they answered the call to nonprofit tech leadership. Why did you start leading your CoP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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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. While Joomla supports more complex site structures than WordPress, it is not as flexible as Drupal or Plone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. at 7:46 pm Like everything in Drupal land, there is code for that… though the quality varies widely. With joshk as the maintainer, the quality should be better than average. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. at 8:40 am It is certainly possible to migrate any website to a CMS like Drupal.

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JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. We talk much more about the value and values that free and open source software bring to the table.

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MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. The single largest CMS used was Drupal, at 15%, followed by Plone and Joomla (approx 8% each.) All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface. Next step — CRM.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Websites have changed a lot over the past few years. Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. They both have good documentation and active communities. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? at 9:47 am Actually, the truth with free and open source software is that it is indeed possible to get very good software without shareholder investment. Drupal, Joomla is run by a foundation, as is Mozilla and many others. But, hey, why not?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) has also released a few more drupal integration modules.

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