Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. . Throughout the day, top customers shared their experiences using Salesforce and highlighted the digital transformations their organizations have undergone. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Don’t Build That App.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2008

Basically, it seems the motivation is that open systems allow them to upgrade their capabilities rapidly, and they need to be able to share data freely. The process of governments in Europe starting to shift to open source software, and software that used open standards, rapidly increased the use of FOSS in Europe.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. It sounds like you're an "accidental techie" - in that you didn't get training to do tech stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

We just show up and make sure you guys have ample opportunities to share your amazing stories and expertise. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you! It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Can’t share books – I like to loan out my books to people. Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

We'll be exhibiting , speaking at sessions , offering office hours and special events , and sharing exciting new TechSoup offerings. We'll also be sharing news about upcoming events, educational opportunities, and new TechSoup offerings. Connect with Tech Training (and Techies!) And we can't wait to see you there!

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

And when we fail, the donor would be notified at the same time as the executive director So as we were developing this new technology for reporting, it was no giant leap of imagination to ask ourselves, “What if our internal accountability platform were entirely open to donors?” Please share in the comments below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! This is my dilemma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share. She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. I wholeheartedly agree. The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Good stuff!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. .&# I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Here are some I’ve found so far, that I’ll be following: OpenSocial Zen – meant to be a place for developers to share ideas. There are an amazing number of new sites that have launched over the weekend (I imagine people sitting in their home offices with lots of caffeine and pizza.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) I’d love to share some of these details with you and for that matter, any readers who are interested. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

SO much work on fundraising widgets, but so few vendors in the case management space and even fewer providing an open API. Or one of the thirty-five other mission critical tasks that nonprofits need to do to make the world a better place? We are not being well served by a lot of nonprofit technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. { It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. { But I have a first take.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

And I’ve been quite happy that the Mac OS is gaining market share over Windows – it would be great to see that continue. Things “just work&# (for the most part – apparently Leopard has been having issues.) Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

You can share these Blists. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Educate them about the clients needs, and, to some extent, hear about, and share best practices in doing this kind of work. And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with. And, I get to be agnostic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. I’m not yet sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. Lasica, a social media pioneer who co-founded Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting and sharing site.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The panel featured Jonah Sachs, the creative director of Free Range Studios , which is a film studio that makes web videos for social and environmental change groups. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Heroic Stories Capture Nonprofit Audiences. Image: Ginny Mies.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API. Check out the Brooklyn Museum’s API documentation for some pretty advanced tech sharing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? You can come to Spock whenever you want to search for someone without ever having to login or share any data with Spock. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it.

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