Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x Community Blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 2, 2011

Of course, they suck for completely different reasons, which is part of the frustration. These days, you can find most kinds of software for the Mac, but there still is a relative paucity of apps in comparison to Windows. And each have places where they shine. Why can’t there be a nice combination of all three?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. 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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x that aren’t one or the other.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. The game needs more time and if there is no time on the agenda, then a different design is needed. . All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Being able to hand out grants and see how the money made a difference was satisfying but not always challenging, and on the whole I prefer life on the cutting edge of the non-profit sector, that's where the drive for social change is coming from. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? tools I used here 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. There is a difference between seasonal agricultural work and a full time job with benefits. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. I have to admit I’m tempted to write a proof of concept app that will send the same bookmark to as many different social bookmarking tools as you want. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That dog won’t hunt.

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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. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

You’d test different calls to action on Twitter, using the Hashtag. Each #hashtag is different. Ehren Foss , Co-Founder and CEO: has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Price Neon Websites costs $49/mo across all our different packages. The only difference between them is the set-up fee that covers the work of our in-house design team. Open-source: Free to use and modify, offering greater control over your website’s code and data.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? This article, completely updated in 2011, summarizes what six different nonprofit experts recommend.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. It’s a very profitable business.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Hybrid and virtual events have different considerations than in-person experiences. CiviCRM – Best open-source nonprofit event management software Overview: CiviCRM offers an open-source CRM for nonprofits. Your event’s format. Add goals and report on progress with automatic updates. per user per month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

calling me a pro -- but honestly in comparison to Vicky's work, I feel like more a Sunday afternoon painter.). That marvelous patch work quilt of different and connected s in the blogosphere that influences your thinking, your writing, and sometimes your practice. Flickr photo from AussieGal. What have I learned about the topic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

Climate change puts pressure on every aspect of our society, putting philanthropic efforts towards other causes at risk, yet funding remains sparse in comparison. It can feel like this even if you have a great filing system and can draw from past efforts, because each application requires something a little bit different.

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