Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Drupal gets a “Solid&# on Scalability and security.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Want to know if these types of systems are right for you? Tools Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve already talked on this blog about Salesforce integration with Drupal , Plone , and others. Tags: CMS CRM Nonprofit Tech salesforce. Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. First, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

Next, we designed a simple template for the testing sessions, consisting of six basic tasks for the users to try to complete -- i.e. “Find a Drupal Developer”, or “Find NTEN Members near you” -- in about 15 minutes. The testing led to a much improved directory that makes our original “finished product” look quite clumsy by comparison.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

If you use an open-source CMS, such as Drupal or WordPress, there are themes or widgets that allow you to do this without making major changes. Think about that in comparison to your email open rates. But uploading GPS-tagged photos from a war zone may very well endanger the person who took the photos. Use responsive design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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