NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

We're closing in on our final transition to Communities of Practice here at NTEN and are so excited to be able to offer more free learning and networking opportunities for NTEN members and the NPTech community at large. The first call of the Drupal CoP will be on Wednesday, October 5th.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Ongoing maintenance is a necessity, unless you choose Drupal Gardens , an affordable solution for simple sites. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? The more people who need to contribute, the more you will need to budget for training, and the more helpful it will be to have some Drupal know-how in-house.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Gregory Heller, CivicActions Not long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. Grammy.com and Whitehouse.gov are Drupal sites.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today was a big day for NTEN: we opened 12NTC registration and kicked off Member Appreciation Month ! Along with the #NTENThanks campaign, we're sharing our NTEN stories. You can check them out all month long on the NTEN blog or on our YouTube channel. Have I mentioned that this is one of our favorite times of year?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team. Current Trends.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday morning: NTEN Board meeting. Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Monday 10:30: Open Source CRM session ( David Geilhufe is moderating, yours truly is a speaker). Tuesday 10:30: Open Source CMS (Laura Quinn’s got that one. I can’t wait!

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta). Oh, and jet-packs.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In fact, we love it so much, the NTEN staff will send top-secret valentines to anyone who registers today. Since we don't like to make anyone wait for the nptech love, we've asked some of our 2012 NTC speakers to send in video valentines telling us why they love the NTC.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. NTEN board member Michelle Murrain , one of the authors of the report, responded to some of the criticism. .

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2009

If there's one thing I've learned in my 6+ years at NTEN, it's that people love to hate their web sites. Ask anyone in the nonprofit technology community about Content Management Systems, and they're likely to mention one of the following: Drupal. Here's a secret: Laura doesn't have warm fuzzy feelings about San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With Here's a growing list.

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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 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. The system integrates tightly with common Web site content management systems with online payment and form-building functionality, like Drupal and Joomla. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap. Organizers Database (ODB).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well. I’ll probably be talking a lot about Drupal.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

We'll take a look at how to handle integrations between Salesforce and a trio of open source CMS solutions -- Plone, Drupal, and Joomla -- at our upcoming webinar, " Salesforce + CMS Integration Showdown: Plone, Drupal, and Joomla ". >

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

Each month, NTEN’s Membership team hosts a phone call for new Members. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Brett Meyer, NTEN. In the screen above, "comm_mem_act" refers to Communications staff who are Members of NTEN and active in our community. On this screen, I've filtered for any campaign tagged "drupal" -- from a message about a series we ran on the Drupal CMS: . note: Actually, they have.].

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

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. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. More orgs will hire CTOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. " Findhabeas.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

Lucy Bernholz's " Open Philanthropy: A Modest Manifesto " is awesome. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. So, naturally, queue " An Engineer's Guide to Cats " (We cannot believe we haven't linked to this before. It's make-you-cry funny. Parts, anyway.). It's right up there. Go on, scroll up.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link]. Twitter: @gregoryheller.

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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. Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Michael DeLong. Wake Me When NTEN's Over , Roger Craver.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. rating items.

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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

APRIL 1, 2013

Today I’m pleased to announce the start of open voting to select the winner of our third annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both. Now it's up to members of the NTEN community (that means you!)

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Open Data Day — Google+ Hangout. Upcoming Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. What reading level is your blog?

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? CivicActions blog: [link].

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. We have here at NTEN.

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. While Joomla supports more complex site structures than WordPress, it is not as flexible as Drupal or Plone.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) has also released a few more drupal integration modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Happy Birthday to drupal !

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