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Help me go to the NTC!

Judi Sohn

I was disappointed when it was announced that the NTEN NTC would be in San Francisco this year. Less focus on consultants and high-budget solutions. And then my friends at Convio got together with the good folks at NTEN and did something wonderful. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. {

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function

NTEN

Implementation : livestreaming, Facebook event plugin, Twitter feed. The social aspects of the site rest in use of Facebook and Twitter social plugins/widgets for sharing as well as liking the campaign. a strategic social media consulting firm to nonprofit organizations. Categories : show, share, interact.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. It is a great blogging tool. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact.

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