Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 3, 2009

A thoughtful, interesting example of where Drupal can work better over Wordpress. Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech. Top 10 Firefox 3.5 features from Lifehacker. I’m loving 3.5 10 Disruptive Technologies to have on the radar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 3, 2009

A thoughtful, interesting example of where Drupal can work better over Wordpress. Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech. Top 10 Firefox 3.5 features from Lifehacker. I’m loving 3.5 10 Disruptive Technologies to have on the radar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

All technology implementors have to choose their tools (unless they run a very large shop) and we have decided to focus on implementation of both Salesforce.com and CiviCRM as CRMs, and Drupal as a CMS. Tags: CMS CRM Consulting Database technology Nonprofit Tech civcrm drupal nptech salesforce.

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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. The Development Seed Blog recaps the multi-lingual Drupal session at DrupalCon in Spain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I can’t believe though, that she suggested using Makefiles for Drupal! Dries ‘ keynote was fun, and it was great to hear a bit about the history, and also the ideas about where Drupal is going. I missed a couple of talks I’d wish I could have made, like the Drupal SEO talk, and Install Profiles.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

and Drupal. Tags: Nonprofit Tech Open Source nptech ntc09 opensource penguinday09. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! Creative Commons And Open Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The big kicker, pretty much as always with Blackbaud, is the price tag. Expect a $35-45K price tag for development and integration. Their SaaS offering, NC Grow has a $20K/year price tag. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools. More on those later.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. Just tag it #luvnptech. Laura Norvig, Building & Supporting Drupal Websites: In-House, Outhouse, or Both? , #12NTCinout.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Tags: Nonprofit Tech 09ntc civicrm nptech nten penguinday. You can email me, @pearbear on twitter, or give me a text message or call … if you know my cell, that is. :-). Sunday morning: NTEN Board meeting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I’ll probably be talking a lot about Drupal. I won’t explain how or why to use twitter or facebook, unless you are trying to put a twitter stream into a Drupal page ( moving data, open source.) Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech. And, more balanced and less snarky. :-).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

And, for Drupal users, some sweet Views 2 and CCK integration. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech civicrm nptech opensource. There are some really nice usability improvements coming up in 2.3 as well - to make the basic contact pages much easier to navigate. And there is a new menu system, which will make things a lot easier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. I’m somewhat of a latecomer to Drupal. Tags: tools opensource Open Source Software nptech. WP is clean and easy, and virtually hassle-free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Second to last in my series on CMS and CRM integration (I’m saving Drupal and Salesforce for last) is using web forms. Tags: CMS CRM Data Nonprofit Tech Web Tools integration nptech. You’ve got a CMS, and you’ve got a CRM somewhere else, and you need some way for data from users to make it to your CRM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when." Where's the conference tag?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Grammy.com and Whitehouse.gov are Drupal sites. Tags: 10NTC civicactions CMS CRM foss gregory heller NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. Gregory Heller and I know it's the latter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). And thanks to Deborah Elizabeth Finn for the heads up about Daniel for the nptech community.

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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. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? rating items.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Log-in to your Google Analytics account, and find the "Campaigns" header under "Traffic Sources": You'll see something like this: Everything tagged with Google's campaign codes is lumped onto this screen, so you'll have to sort the information to make it useful. Find the Data in Google Analytics . Happy tracking!

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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 31, 2010

Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Danah Boyd says the answer isn't binary : "Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both." " Need to make a map to show your impact? This one is a great model. Where do people come up with these names ? We like to believe it can.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2009

Ask anyone in the nonprofit technology community about Content Management Systems, and they're likely to mention one of the following: Drupal. Tags: OSS NPTech NTEN laura quinn websites foss content management CMS 09NTC. We like them because they're free. We love to hate them because there are so many twiddly bits to adjust.

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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).

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

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). There are hundreds of regional Drupal user groups. This is by no means specific to Drupal. And then, we want the kitchen sink. Oh, and jet-packs.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

We are seeing significant numbers of nonprofits gravitate to open source tools such as CiviCRM and Drupal as more attention is paid to usability and support for the non-technical user. Tags: 10NTC Infrastructure Jenn Sramek NPTech IT Staff. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address?

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

Tags: 09NTC community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members Open Source. We voted him "Most Likely to Be Promoting a Social Media Event Using Social Media While Attending a Social Media Event." " You can see his "Meet NTEN" profile here.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2009

Tags: drupal nten_members NPTech NTEN drupalcon.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

and Drupal. Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN Open Source peguin day. Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools. Introduction to Linux. Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems. Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress. Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

Next, we designed a simple template for the testing sessions, consisting of six basic tasks for the users to try to complete -- i.e. “Find a Drupal Developer”, or “Find NTEN Members near you” -- in about 15 minutes. Tags: NPTech NTEN. fill out your Bio and Org Description fields). Haven't done it yet?

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Travlr After I sent out a message announcing our Drupal Webinar Series , my in-box filled up with "Isn't the first one of those scheduled for Inauguration Day? If enough people tag their tweets with "#inaug09" or "#dctrip09", you should be able to find out which checkpoint has the shortest wait.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 24, 2009

Here’s why I chose Drupal to carry out the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress website instead of Wordpress.". Tags: NPtech.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

She gave us solid recommendations on different CMS options and which was likely to best serve our needs (we ended up with Drupal – and it rocks!). Tags: NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. She’s a passionate web developer who cares about causes and making them shine online. Continually learning, he can be followed @jon_dunn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Web 2.0,

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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. Free and Open Source Software. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @gregoryheller.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. And just for fun, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged 12ntc ! Microsoft at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Angela Yu. More about that book , Michelle Murrain. Moving Forward from NTC 2012 , Chris Bernard. Non-profit Data Headaches , Captricity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

The system integrates tightly with common Web site content management systems with online payment and form-building functionality, like Drupal and Joomla. Tags: chris bernard donor management systems eric leland foss laura quinn Newsletter NPTech NTEN Open Source.

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