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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit? 

Whole Whale

In October 2022 “Looker is the name you’ll hear us use when talking about all of our Google Cloud business intelligence products, as we bring together Looker, Data Studio, and core Google technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning,” Kate Wright, Google’s Senior Director for Business Intelligence Product Management.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. Wikipedia article on smartglasses.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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The Ice Bucket Challenge Epilogue: Data

3rd Sector Labs

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? million donor names, emails and contact information. Our donor retention CRM expert friends at Bloomerang would point out the importance of building a fundraising plan around donor retention, a plan that includes CRM technology designed for this purpose.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. But I'd like to see nonprofits and hear nonprofit technology practitioners take on this. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. Constant Contact (a SaaS provider of email delivery) uses IBM DB2.