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Choosing a CMS: 3 Tips for Your Nonprofit

Top Nonprofits

You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. For nonprofits, two CMS platforms stand out as the most effective, well-rounded systems for long-lasting websites: WordPress and Drupal.

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Social Media ennui

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I spend some amount of my Drupal and WordPress development time, both for my clients and for myself, in setting up one or two-way integrations between websites and social media sites. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? And I use hashtags in blog entries! ).

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Bleary Eyed and geared up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Advanced Drupal Theming. Designers & Developers and Empowering Clients (combined session, I co-facilitated). I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Designing RESTful APIs.

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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Connecting with NTEN Communities of Practice

NTEN

Check out the following CoP's and their upcoming events: The Nonprofit Technology Consultants CoP is a forum for nonprofit technology consultants to help facilitate frank discussion about working with nonprofit organizations. The first call of the Drupal CoP will be on Wednesday, October 5th. You can find out more and register here.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things.