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How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. PHP Solutions: These platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, can be cost-effective and offer flexibility due to their vast community support.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate.

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CRM&CMS Integration: Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and NetCommunity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It is, in fact, a great example of integration of a CMS and a CRM. However, it is true that Raiser’s Edge, the CRM/DMS tool that this integrates with, is inarguably one of the most important tools out there. The integration between the web front end and the RE back end is bi-directional and sweet. The demo was pretty cool.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. First, the what – what to integrate? There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. This is integration of a sort. Integration.

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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. The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. because it’s open source, there are no license fees, just the work on design and content.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). and licensing models. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer.