Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2011

There are some very interesting comparisons to make in this realm, and, I’d say first off, that the proprietary tools are in the lead, for sure. On the open source side, the projects that stand out are GIMP (a Photoshop replacement) and Inkscape (a vector graphics program – like Illustrator). It plays everything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. What are the options for doing CMS-like things on the Force.com platform?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. What’s to lose?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

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. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Website builders are software platforms that allow users to create and manage websites without needing to write code. You have to find the platform that fits your needs best—not perfectly, but “best.” For the rest of us, these people might as well be wizards. We need special tools to do a lot of the heavy code-lifting for us.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

User-friendly event management software tools Additional software tools to support nonprofit events Let’s start by defining event management software and exploring key considerations before investing in a new platform. Your event management platform should be intuitive for your nonprofit’s staff to use. User-friendliness.

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