Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Some vendors have products that provide integration by having both the CRM and the CMS together. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. As we know, these transactions are often managed in the most labor-intensive way possible.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The typical nonprofit operates with multiple systems from different vendors adopted on an ad hoc basis by various departments acting independently. Even the family calling to order a pizza will probably discover that the person answering the phone knows what its last order was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Cary McQueen Morrow, executive director of the Center for Arts Management and Technology , is the woman and visionary who organized this landmark event. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. Was that your progression?

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

In those situations, generally, the product remains largely the same (with some branding changes over time.) In that case, the acquiring company eventually does away with its own product, and the acquired product becomes that companies offering in that space (with changes.) Like Google buying YouTube , or Yahoo buying flickr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CRM & CMS Integration: Plone and Salesforce.com March 16, 2009 Today, I was reading up on what the Plone community has done with integrating their CMS with Salesforce.com. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

I have been a champion of openness of all sorts, including such things as open licenses and the destructiveness of DRM, in panel after panel in the nonprofit tech community for a decade. The public library system has long been a valuable distribution mode of commercially-produced content available for free to all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. 99, the app is a must-download for mobile social media managers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Zeen is a new product soon-to-be launched by YouTube’s co-founders that will allow users to “discover and create beautiful magazines.” Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Zeen :: zeen.com. Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Anyone could join and use them to efficiently offer services and receive products. 1 Everyone could become a microentrepreneur and could buy, sell, or offer their products or labor as they wished and without the control of legacy companies with their ponderous old factory floors, taxi garage headquarters, and department store showcases.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

We responded by bringing together a wide range of climate and community experts through an Impact Lab on Climate Justice to explore areas where technology can have the most impact. Much of the following work took the form of interviews with CBOs and subsequent design workshops with community fellows and pro bono volunteers.

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