Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Speaking of communities … Open up beyond your “partners&# – Really getting involved in writing apps for either platform requires that people become official partners of the companies. 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. Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Holly Ross. Laura Lee Dooley. Jordan Viator.

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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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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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. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data. In order to compare job creation projects “job” must be defined.

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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. Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In this previously recorded webinar, Allen Gunn, the executive director of Aspiration, covers the steps to follow to streamline the process and minimize costs, what you can expect to pay for different types of websites, and website technologies specific to the nonprofit sector. How Much Should a Website Cost?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

In this previously recorded webinar, Allen Gunn, the executive director of Aspiration, covers the steps to follow to streamline the process and minimize costs, what you can expect to pay for different types of websites, and website technologies specific to the nonprofit sector. How Much Should a Website Cost?

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