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. What the Mobile Revolution Means.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Whether they are browsing your website content on their desktop or scrolling through your social media posts on their mobile phone, it’s crucial to create continuity across all your marketing touchpoints. Let’s look at 5 tips to help your mission-driven organization create real impact with omnichannel marketing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Before making a decision, you’ll want to assess your needs and thoroughly research available platforms before making a decision. Compare top platforms. Compare top platforms. Define your website needs.

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See3

APRIL 28, 2009

Leading provider of online fundraising, education and advocacy for nonprofits partners with the first open-source video platform. “We are excited that we can finally, wholeheartedly, recommend a video platform to our clients,&# said See3 CEO Michael Hoffman.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Finding cost-effective ways to launch new services, having the ability to iterate quickly, providing non-resource intensive access to remote and underserved communities, and creating the most accessible and secure experiences possible, just to name a few.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

For years, the LMS has reigned supreme as the top learning platform for associations. However, as you begin searching for your association’s next solution, you’ll quickly come across a new option on the market— learning experience platforms (LXPs). Why are learning experience platforms rising in popularity? Let’s dive in.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. The Bloomerang Payments processing fee is 2.2% + $0.30

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

His newest project is Open Source Cinema. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. This film is open source - and thats why I created. Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are generally shared short or long codes that use keywords to organize conversations of multiple organizations that use the platform. 0075 per message sent, $500 in-kind grants for nonprofits available ([link] Twilio studio allows for custom message flows but requires some knowledge of platform to customize. Twilio.org.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

Optimizing your content with personalization allows for audiences to interact with the most applicable content for them, thus creating a better, more engaging user experience. Optimizing website content requires analyzing the hierarchy of information on a platform to improve website traffic and outreach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them. Please join us in creating this transformative impact. Are you ready to RHoK with Mifos?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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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! They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app. apps out there.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process. This data is literally the life’s blood of the organization.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

For mission-driven organizations, the most common ways to begin personalizing content and outreach are to identify the sources where they are already gathering information or data on audiences and target personas. This includes: Email databases Website analytics CRM systems Online giving platforms. Examples of advanced personalization.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But just the same there are lots of CMS platforms promising all sorts of wonderful things, from being easy to learn to easy to edit to having a nice cheap price tag. Today nearly 75 million sites are constructed and managed on the WordPress platform—which first debuted in 2011—and there are some very good reasons why. An Open Book.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Additionally, Carr Systems remains more committed than ever to Open Source solutions such as Drupal Gardens, CiviCRM, and WordPress. These technology platforms are proven, affordable, and can be customized to meet virtually any corporate requirement.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now that Slack is part of the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform, here’s how together we’re creating the digital headquarters for a success-from-anywhere world across the education, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors. Create Virtual Headquarters for Staff and External Stakeholders.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

We have previously given you a list of the best virtual conference platforms as well as lists of the best platforms for virtual trade shows and expos, but some event hosts and producers may need additional tools and resources in order to put on these events. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

Microsites can seem like a good idea to give nonprofit digital teams a clean slate to create something new. Nonprofits will often create microsites for specific campaigns or initiatives. For example, if a nonprofit is launching a new program, they might create a microsite to house all of the program’s information in one place.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Nonprofits, education institutions, and corporations alike are recognizing their roles in creating a more sustainable future. Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Share in the comments.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

It takes only a brief look at the impressive statistics surrounding website builder WordPress to realize what an online juggernaut it really is: Currently, nearly 75 million sites are built on the platform and half of all those accounts are hosted directly on the company’s site. registered domain names run exclusively on the platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I did the research for the original report released a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while since I’ve come back to comparing these two platforms. WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our first task was to create an efficient solution that would allow us to accept all donations in any currency, and which could support many different languages,” Yaroslav said. It has pre-built integration flows to hydrate that lake with data from Salesforce for Nonprofits, and it includes guidance to create a throughput to Tableau.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

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. Stay tuned.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. This means that when a new social media platform becomes popular, for example, the community can create an integration within a matter of days or even hours.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes. That challenge led to the development of a unique personalization tool , created by Forum One, as a way to serve discrete audiences with different journeys and needs.

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