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. Tags: Data blackbaud CRM Software Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech. She’s talking about Blackbaud?

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2012

We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight a few of NTEN’s recent educational resources on databases. Free Report: 2011 Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems Report Blog Post: WordPress vs Drupal. Like the 501 Tech Clubs, these groups are free and open to everyone.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Brett Meyer, NTEN. Because they had to standardize the system used for this tracking, you can co-opt it for your own purposes to track click-throughs from your e-mail campaigns, banner ads, links in blog posts, even paper mailings (if you use it in conjunction with a URL shortener like bit.ly). 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. We'll still be cheapskates.

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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

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 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). 3 sudha 01.15.09

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes.

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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. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems. and Drupal. Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN Open Source peguin day. Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools. Introduction to Linux. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! Register now at [link].

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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 ". > Each system will be presented by experts in the field who’ve been there and done that before.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

We had visitors from Drupal geeks to James Fallows at the Atlantic stop by DataMasher.org to create a custom data mash-up. Instead of using that home-built coding system for locations, try using an existing naming convention. Tags: Data Integration/APIs michaela hackner Newsletter NPTech NTEN sandy smith IT Staff.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

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). Tags: #10NTC CMS CRM gregory heller NPTech IT Staff. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Blog: [link].

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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. How do these systems actually compare to one another? We took a detailed look at 14 different areas to see how they stack up.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. We have here at NTEN. We use all kinds of open source tools, including our content management system, Drupal. Neither are the open source products, from Drupal to Openoffice. Tags: foss holly ross Newsletter NPTech NTEN Open Source. Open Source is Dead. That's right, I said it.

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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. Websites have changed a lot over the past few years.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. Setting up systems to securely collect and deliver participant data was actually relatively simple. Holly Ross is former executive director of NTEN, and currently executive director of the Drupal Association.

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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

JUNE 23, 2005

I then went on to help start NTEN as a board member. I think with the ease of use that Wiki software and CMS (plone, drupal) systems provide for quick updates, we will see many new mechanisms for groups to get their content/message out and keep their site fresh. Technorati Tags: nptech Surf's up.Aloha.

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