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12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change

Tech Soup

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. Crowdsourcing and mapping.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want all of the above on a map.

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

The native Web to Lead function in Salesforce provides a setup wizard to create a form. Advantages: Simple wizard to create a form. Disadvantages: Limited to creating Lead records. Similar to the CMS form tools, these tools use a GUI-based system for designing forms and mapping fields. . Advantages: Advanced feature sets.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

For example, one system may prefer that husband and wife are created as a joint account, while another may prefer that the two are individual donor accounts that are linked. For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. You stop and review your map again.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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