Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu. Be Helpful.

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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! Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application. You make your own conclusions.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 19, 2024

This allows for a comprehensive comparison. Follow these tips for effective vendor relationship management: Open Communication Channels Establish clear lines of communication with your vendors. Audience Compatibility Consider your audience’s preferences and demographics when selecting vendors.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. This is where you start looking beyond the initial metrics of opens and clicks – and where data analytics play a major role. How many is your association using consistently? These could be email, SEO, social media, or paid advertising. Attribution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And now that the 990s are released as open data by the IRS, it’s more important than ever to rethink the role of the 990 as a communication channel instead of just a compliance requirement. As a result of these efforts, coupled with legal actions, in 2019, the IRS began mandating the electronic filing of all 990s as open data.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Every e-mail marketer worth her salt knows how to calculate an overall messaging open rate: messages opened ÷ messages delivered. That's why I was a little confounded when we first started using our new e-mail system, and it would spit out a report like this: An overall open rate of almost 33%? True Open Rate.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. Open source as a philosophy also promotes accessibility, transparency, inclusivity, open data, and integration with other tools. " Other Open-Source Mobile Tools. Broadcast SMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Nonprofits don’t use e-commerce much, but I’ve had some experience (on both sides of the profit fence) doing e-commerce, and for some reason, shopping carts are intriguing me at the moment, and I figure its a good time to know what’s out there, especially in the open source shopping cart world. Open Cart – Also LAMP.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

In comparison, organizations in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin, which secured the second and third most funding, only received $75 million and $35 million respectively. 7 Foundation to Promote Open Society NY $12,079,216 3.1% In fact, organizations based in New York County (Manhattan) received $127 million in funding.

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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. Now the security issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2010

In my daily life, Git has 2 major advantages: version control and comparison of versions even when I’m not connected to the internet (you have your own actual repository, not just a working copy), and its speed. Tags: Open Source code Software tools. And, I figured anything Linus Torvalds wrote was good enough for me.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

.” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group. Here you can review a comparison of virtual tools. Introduce inquiry “What if…?

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2014

Idealist Consulting has a new, free Email Service Providers Comparison Report , an in-depth comparison of 13 of the most common platforms. Open diversity data is an effort to make the diversity data collected by companies publicly available. Trying to decide on an email service?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

It is important to prioritize doing this as soon as possible as you can’t collect any data until this is in place which will hurt things like year over year comparisons. Here is the GA guide: Meet the next generation of Google Analytics.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

- Although a great report in itself, I suggest opening the date range filter to include “past comparison,&# for year to year comparison (if you have previous year’s data). Use this comparison to survey peaks and valleys of traffic. Also, Google defaults to the most recent month’s worth of data.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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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 The report is available once you register (for free) at Idealware's site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. The most recent announcement is from Convio, which launched Convio Open. open API???

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Just for comparison, Shutterstock annual plans for a base level cost $49 for 5 downloads , AI generators like DALL-E-2 are $.13 A product of Openai.com, the product has been trained on millions of images and is currently open to the public beta (though there is a waiting list ). 13 per image. 13 per token.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2021

An interesting comparison is how public companies have quarterly earnings calls with investors. Be honest about where help is needed, this can open the opportunity for donors to potentially support and become a part of the narrative. Top-line financial narrative depending on the time of year. The Ask or Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

CMSForce – This is an “open source&# (in quotes because although you can get the source code, do what you’d like with it, and contribute to the project , because it’s written on a proprietary platform, it’s not really open source.)

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Custom “User dimensions” from UA is now “User Properties” in GA4 “Goals” in UA have become “Conversions” in GA4 “Segments” used to filter the view in UA are now “comparisons” in GA4 and you can have up to 4. First_open (app): when a user that hasn’t been to the web/app before opens a page. Why UA Metrics won’t Match GA4.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to effectively utilize this powerful resource: Open the Google Analytics Query Explorer at ga-dev-tools.google/query-explorer/. Customize the report as needed by applying segmentation or filtering.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I’ve waxed on about this tool ever since I’ve found it, and I would love to challenge a loyal Basecamp user to a point-by-point comparison of the two tools. And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. I think it knocks Basecamp right out of the water. Evernote rocks my world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. In this post, Lucy Bernholz describes how sharing open data in the social sector can increase impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 2, 2011

These days, you can find most kinds of software for the Mac, but there still is a relative paucity of apps in comparison to Windows. Why Windows sucks: Viruses, Trojans and Worms, Oh My! Although I have only seen the Blue Screen of Death once in my year of Windows 7 use, there are still inexplicable slow-downs, crashes, and weird problems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is because the process to open a bank account is very tedious in comparison to getting a sim card and adding cash through a local M-Pesa agent. Please explain the role of cash and mobile payments, particularly M-Pesa, in individual giving in Kenya. Mobile payments are more accessible and convenient than card payments.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. We move to our smartphones, to our laptops, to the attached screens on our desk, and at any time we could have hundreds of active tabs open and ready for our immediate use. How to Train and Develop Millennials.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Is TikTok or Instagram a true search engine in comparison to Google? The way that people search is fundamentally evolving. As the next generation of searchers age, the way they interact with search continues to change. The short answer is “no.” Search capabilities may differ, but the end results for the user hold parallels.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. So, to be safe and consistently compare one year to the next, all of the year-over-year figures cited below are for November and December combined unless otherwise noted. And boy, were there some outliers this year. On to the goods! .

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 27, 2012

It’s not about price comparisons. The CloudFixer Analysis Tool starts with a survey to access what the organization is considering, including whether or not they would be open to a Blackbaud solution. Or feature matrixes. It’s not about Salesforce vs. Blackbaud.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2011

Help you assess the costs of migrating to a Cloud computing solution, including how to do an apple-to-apples comparison with your existing systems. Cloud computing opens the opportunity for your organization to shift from using technology exclusively in the back office to using IT as a strategic part of your work.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Open at first only to users in the US and India, Facebook Lite is now available to all English-language users. First reactions to Facebook Lite seem to be mostly positive, albeit with the inevitable comparisons to Twitter’s lean message stream. read more ).

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

These decisions may range from whether to give the receptionist a raise to whether or not to open a new location. Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. That sounds great, right?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

Each profile shows the donation history of each donor, their contact and demographic information, and each interaction they’ve had with your organization in the past (emails opened, calls-to-action taken, events attended, etc.). This will help you make direct comparisons after you’ve received a demo of each. Constituent timeline.

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