Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 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 #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM. Be Helpful.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Additionally, Carr Systems remains more committed than ever to Open Source solutions such as Drupal Gardens, CiviCRM, and WordPress. Custom Development – Carr Systems principally uses Open Source technologies to create custom technology applications (Web and mobile) for its clients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 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 #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

" Open for Action — A blog for OpenAction thoughts and musings – "Not sure about you, but we’re saying finally! The Ultimate Go-To Resource on Mobile Data Collection (and growing…) | MobileActive.org – "Want to use mobiles for data collection? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I

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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! I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

In addition to this hurdle, we also had a non-mobile friendly website with an outdated visual design that affected both user experience and our search engine optimization (SEO). This is such a very specific example, but it’s one that has a big impact for us and our community. Here’s where we saw the most immediate improvements.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

Since its opening in 1962, SLAC has been helping create the future, including the launch of the first website in North America in 1991. Forum One worked with SLAC to create a Drupal site that achieved all of these goals and more. Department of Energy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

The ability to track engagement metrics like event attendance, email open rates, and other membership activities will help you improve your future outreach efforts. CiviCRM CiviCRM is one of the few open-source solutions on the market—which means that the source code of the platform has been made publicly available.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2021

You’re probably familiar with systems like Drupal, WordPress, Sitecore, and Kentico. The open-ended nature of the presentation layer is what gives this concept so much strength and flexibility. For example, a website, a separate mobile application, and a smartwatch could all use the same data that you’ve already outputted.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I’m a designer who, up until recently, held some pretty naïve opinions about mobile fundraising. At the end of the 2014 giving season, we completed a mobile fundraising study across 343 nonprofit websites to help separate our facts from our opinions. Get ready… Myth #1: No one really donates on mobile.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Ensure your site is optimized for mobile — Did you know that half of all nonprofit website traffic last year came from mobile and tablet users? If your own nonprofit site doesn’t look good or is hard to use on mobile devices, then you’re missing out on a huge chunk of potential traffic.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. and Drupal. Introduction to Linux.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

We introduce ourselves, talk a little bit about NTEN’s resources, and then open the conversation up to learn about all of those on the call. Free Report: 2011 Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems Report Blog Post: WordPress vs Drupal. All of the groups are free to attend, and open to everyone. >>

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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. The panelists offered advice to nonprofits about integrating mobile into the nonprofit toolbox. They aren’t built for mobile devices. The PDF is. Why are PDFs so bad?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 23, 2013

And sure, a new mobile app would be absolutely amazing, but many nonprofits simply cannot afford it. In the months before the interview, try your hand at Final Cut Pro or figure out the backend of Drupal and WordPress – you won’t believe how quickly it will pay off. Are you looking for a career in the Arizona nonprofit sector?

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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. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy. Mobile phone use in campaigns is not just about text messaging, but about leveraging missed calls.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Connecting Up held webinars on two open-source content management systems: Introducing the Joomla CMS and Introducing the Drupal CMS. Mobile Optimization. As more people are accessing the Internet from their smartphones or tablets, mobile optimization for websites is becoming increasingly important.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Open Data Day — Google+ Hangout. WordPress and Drupal Days #15NTC. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Netsquared Yaounde, Cameroon Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Netsquared Yaounde, Cameroon Open Data Day. Saturday, February 21, 2015.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology. For instance: What are you doing to encourage accessibility for your own online or mobile-based presence?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

More organizations will depend on mobile donations. But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. More orgs will hire CTOs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. What Is Web 2.0?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

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. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support. OK, enough of that.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

With automated gift acknowledgments and mobile-friendly forms, your professionalism will never be doubted. To create a unified and professional brand for your nonprofit, you can start by improving your online fundraising strategies with Salsa’s tools or mobilizing movements by starting petitions with their advocacy techniques.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We'd love to check it out, so please post the link in the comments, or add it to this open Google spreadsheet. More than Apps: Mobile Tips from 12NTC , Ariel Gilbert Knight. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. If we missed your blog post, we're sorry! Session Blog Posts. Garrett Bradford.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. The data and content were provided by policy staff at the University of Wisconsin with support from Burness Communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Care2

APRIL 12, 2009

Panelists will also discuss how environmental groups are leveraging online strategies to educate and mobilize a diverse and broad-based audience of citizens and policymakers. Interested in learning about free and open source software that can support your work including tools for web publishing, fundraising, blogging, and campaigning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. ACLU-WA's Drupal redesign! With snacks!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

By doing so, you'll then be able to push the envelope with mobile-friendly and other new-fangled webby goodness. The tech jargon (sorry, I tried): with the Winter release, Convio's Open API will support the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. Oh, and what will happen come January when you close the 2011 walk and open 2012?

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. In fact, many government organizations are embracing open data and releasing their data sets to the general public via APIs. What are APIs?

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