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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. I wrote a piece a while ago saying the open API is the new black.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've been working in the non-profit sector for 5 years now and joined Lasa in June 2006, first on the consultancy side of the business by helping non-profits with their IT projects, and later as the wonderfully entitled London Regional ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? tools I used here 4.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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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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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. That is the driving force behind what Blackbaud is doing – maximizing profit.

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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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