Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component.

Drupal 150

Drupal Comment Report Open Source 150

Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2016

The new edition of the Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems is a 300-plus page downloadable report that provides detailed comparisons of 29 grants management systems. So what is new in grants management systems? Cloud-based grantmaking systems have largely overtaken the field. Quite a lot, it turns out.

Grant 36

Grant Management Free Guide 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. 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.

Drupal 150

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Here's more from their announcement: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone are all free and open source systems that can help nonprofit build and manage websites - but how do they compare? This report also includes our new directory of the consultants and firms who help nonprofit create websites and implement these Content Management Systems.

Open Source 43

Open Source Drupal WordPress System 43

Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The search platform itself states, “Google uses automated ranking systems that look at many factors and signals about hundreds of billions of web pages and other content in our Search index to present the most relevant, useful results, all in a fraction of a second.” Is TikTok or Instagram a true search engine in comparison to Google?

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Search Alternative Social Social Media 59

Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 27, 2012

” Changing over a system which for many organizations, including the one I left, serves as the central spine in how they engage with their constituency isn’t going to happen easily after comparing a pricing and feature matrix and sitting through a few demos. It’s not about price comparisons. We have matching gifts!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time. Tags: Technology Zen android apple Hardware microsoft. I don’t miss my iPhone at all. I’ll miss Garage Band.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

I think this comparison, and context, is a great example of why local (read: non-global) organizations are still key in social change work, and why we need to be building stronger networks for data and information sharing. Tags: otherblogs networks organizations ssir strategy. What makes this more powerful? Where would you start?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2009

A lot of his observations are based in comparison to Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS' Snow Leopard (which is somewhat a moot point because you can't install Snow Leopard on any computer other than an Apple computer). Tags: Operating Systems Software Tech Planning.

Review 43

Review Comparison Laptop Journal 43

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component.

Drupal 100

Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

As the song says, it's hard to raise money -- especially if you don't have an adequate Donor Management System (DMS). teamed up to help you out with this important decision with an impartial, detailed comparison of 33 different Donor Management Systems that cost less than $4250 in the first year. It's FREE for NTEN Members.

NTEN 47

NTEN Donor Comparison Software 47

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. Now, I'm not exactly advocating for boards, but a comparison helps us see why regulation is important. IThe whole system is nauseating. Or, I should qualify that.

Museum 45

Museum Guinea Tech Studies 45

Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2010

Metals are the most readily sought after material to recycle, due to their high commodity value, while the recycling of plastics remains stunted by comparison due to poor labeling, its multiple varieties, the current cheap cost of virgin plastic, and the relative difficulty in finding manufacturing uses for post-consumer plastic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. to help build this system and has shared some analysis of these retweets. I'd use something like this to identify influencers in my network whose retweets had reach or velocity. hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Using Red Hat, as I often do sometimes, feels like doing battle in comparison. Ubuntu seems to be becoming the linux distro of choice for a lot of people, and so far, it’s my favorite. Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Consider this in comparison to their own website, where U.S. Simple and effective tools such as " AddThis " allow online fundraisers to bookmark their online fundraising page quickly across a variety of social media systems. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Fundraising. million fans). Is it effective? Getting Started .

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Social Media Effective Media Fundraising 69

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Until recently, the main way to deal with this was cumbersome import and export of data from one system to another. Almost a year ago, NTEN hosted a field wide discussion about the need for nonprofit tech vendors, particularly CRM systems for online fundraising, to offer open APIs. Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches.

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Convio Open API Kintera 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Many crowdsourcing work sites provide some kind of rating system meaning the better, more accurate workers can rise to the top. For clarification, “Work” means any process that requires actual efforts that are usually compensated in some way.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: intellectualproperty , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. It makes me think a lot about how much we are governed by fear – even in the realm of things that seem only technological. But, of course, underneath, and around all of those bits and bytes are just human beings, after all.

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Open Source Open Software Technorati 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier.

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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Money, it's a drag.

Digital 74

Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Look for opinions from people that have similar organizations, values, missions and tech skills to get the best comparison. As was mentioned above, QuickBooks has a wonderful system that makes conversion from QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online a breeze. Direct correspondence, chat rooms (i.e. npsf@googlegroups.com) and blogs (i.e.

Org 61

Org Jordan Offline Consultant 61

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Look for opinions from people that have similar organizations, values, missions and tech skills to get the best comparison. As was mentioned above, QuickBooks has a wonderful system that makes conversion from QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online a breeze. Direct correspondence, chat rooms (i.e. npsf@googlegroups.com) and blogs (i.e.

Org 57

Org Jordan Offline Consultant 57

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I figured the same system would work for the book, and so far, it seems to be bearing fruit. Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. respectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. Data from system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. Systems thinking - need to use to think about ecosystems, cultural systems, rich profound form of thought. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c Is there a way of hindering the space race? Games teach this.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One system might be affordable but a nightmare to use, while another is a bit outside your budget but comes with the perfect templates and a seamless user experience. SEO and Online Visibility SEO Tools: Prioritize platforms that offer built-in SEO tools, including meta tags, keyword optimization, and sitemap generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

They are also looking at how to bring this type of program into the school system in Jamaica. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? Technorati Tags: ilaw Nesson gave this annecdote. "Take for example. My wife teaches high school and they don't like it.

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Jamaica National Develop Wikipedia 50

EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Your donor management software can run reports that isolate donor types using grouping, categories, or specific tag identifiers so you can show which audiences you’re targeting effectively, and which will require more nurturing or perhaps a new approach. Communicating with your teams. Shameless plug: EveryAction 8 does all of this and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. Tags: SIGACTS Iraq Iraq Body Count human rights MSE wikileaks IBC.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 1, 2010

I need more than a simple to-do list or just starring my email, less than a full blown GTD system of complex contexts and next actions. Comparison points : I like the quick entry box in Things. You can give the task no tags, no projects, nothing special and just drag it to Today and it's out of the inbox.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

For your organization's main website , a full-featured Content management System is invaluable. I'd love to see someone write a comparison of these blogging tools.) Tags: nptech , blogging , CMS , content The last post talked about the importance of selected the right tools for your web publishing project.

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