Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And it doesn’t change any equations about whether or not to choose open source solutions – they are still open, free, useful, but can’t really compete yet in terms of usability and functionality in comparison to many of the commercial solutions, and that will remain so for as long as nonprofits choose to spend money on commercial (..)

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Start your review process with objective material from sources like NTEN, Idealware, and TechSoup. You can think of them as consumer reports for non-profit technology. Look for opinions from people that have similar organizations, values, missions and tech skills to get the best comparison. npsf@googlegroups.com) and blogs (i.e.

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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. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce. Both companies are making strides, but people want to look under the hood, fast!

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

By comparison, social media marketing is based on relinquishing control, two-way communication, building community, and breaking out of campaign-thinking to build trust over time. But hey, we non-profits are good at this stuff. Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 That's a very good thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

My point is that companies like Microsoft have almost nothing to do with providing good software — the marginal gain from selling better software is miniscule in comparison with the potential income from spreading some FUD and reaping the benefits as everyone re-evaluates their risk positions. 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I hate to be so blunt, but it is true, at least in comparison to the ones on the Mac. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It was great. First problem: Linux address books … suck. There are basically three options.

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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. Let's talk about your blog - What value do you get from it? The question are web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

It is a lament about the phrase "nonprofits should act more like for-profits" leading some reflections about long-term thinking about outcomes. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. It's a must-read. Britt Bravo covers it here.

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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

JUNE 29, 2007

But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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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

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

See how non-profits can navigate the coronavirus here. We typically see organizations that do peer-to-peer fundraising not only help create a sense of community, but they also raise about 2x as much in comparison to other digital fundraising initiatives. This has understandably put a lot of strain on fundraising income. Crowdfunding.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

million views online and he is the keynote speaker at NTEN’s upcoming 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Compensation: We let the for-profit sector pay people a competitive wage based on the value of what they produce. ” These organizations would not be tax exempt and would have to pay taxes on their profits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is important to think about the fact that dollars raised by nonprofit organizations are going to Blackbaud’s investors whose major interest in Blackbaud is the profit it can produce. That is the driving force behind what Blackbaud is doing – maximizing profit. Free software? 2 David Zeidman 08.07.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Most custom CMS that I’ve seen lately are sorely lacking in features and/or usability, in comparison to what’s out there, and available. The other 15% might want or need a more specialized CMS (like OpenACS, or a proprietary one,) or might need some modules developed for them.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others. In our work with non-profit organizations we are seeing a growing number of them building tools if not applications to engage communities of constituents to address their missions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 technologies.

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