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How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

Selecting the right Content Management System (CMS) for your nonprofit website is crucial in building and managing a successful online presence. 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.

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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

Affordability – Open Source is free of licensing fees. Proven – Open Source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, CiviCRM, etc., Drupal is close behind in the number of websites, and it powers leading sites like The White House and The Economist. So let’s get started. Yes, millions.

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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

There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions. I didn’t get a very close look at the CMS (I’m wishing in retrospect that I had), but the little bit I did see of it suggested to me that it was somewhat more limited than CMS systems such as Drupal or Plone.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09 Drupal basically allows this really nicely, a bit harder in Joomla (IMO). Actually Drupal/CiviCRM was going to be my first follow up post!

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Interview: Colin Rhinesmith, CCTV Cambridge

Amy Sample Ward

CCTV first got involved with social media in 2005 when we switched our website’s content management system over to Drupal. Creative Commons licensed training materials would be particularly beneficial. People who are interested in getting involved can join our Technology Resources for Nonprofits group on our website.

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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.