NTEN

MARCH 15, 2014

While we’re grateful to all members of NTEN, there are, of course, those of you who go beyond the proverbial "call of duty" and impact the NTEN community by providing extra time, resources, and wisdom to assist NTEN''s work in this sector. 14ntc nptech nten awards ntennies' Have all 1.05 Have all 1.05

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Rhode Island Adwords Drupal NTEN 72

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Each year, NTEN recognizes a member of this community who has furthered the work of the nonprofit technology field through dedication, innovation, and leadership. She takes pleasure in learning about technology (like her recent Drupal and CiviCRM projects) and takes on the challenges that come with it.

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Award NTEN North Carolina Drupal 60

NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2014

There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Check out this page to see where NTEN will be in the community this month; we''d love to link up with you.

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Los Angeles Seattle Portland DC 62

NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

A donor management system is sometimes called a fundraising system or a donor database. There are a huge number of systems available, ranging from the basic to those that offer all sorts of additional features and functionality. The system is based around a central constituent record, with a configurable “interactions portal.”

Open Source 73

Open Source System Open Management 73

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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Drupal Open Source Press RSS 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

But first, an NTEN story from Kivi Leroux Miller : Upcoming free webinars: Ask the Expert: Maddie Grant on Community Building. How the NYPL Successfully Project Managed a New Drupal Website. Struggling to incorporate an easy to use content management system in your website? November 11th at 11am PST. November 19th at 11am PST.

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Free Drupal New York NTEN 55

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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Question Drupal Database NTEN 55

NTEN

APRIL 1, 2015

We brought in our Drupal consultant, Mark Burgess , to create some funhouse-style CSS and asked Membership Director, Megan, to contribute some of her signature bad puns and goofy jokes to the April Fools’ Day beta launch announcement blog post. The most significant change will be with the NTEN: Change journal.

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Websites Journal Case Study Drupal 36

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. She’s talking about Blackbaud? More on those later.

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Blackbaud Integration Drupal Module 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

It can integrate with both Drupal or Joomla, and there is a new stand-alone version as well. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration. CiviCRM ranked #1 in satisfaction in the recent NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. {

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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

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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Track Analytics Google Campaign 68

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09 The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Integration API Drupal Open Source 100

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. Is it because we like hiring more senior people?

Technology 98

Technology Org United States Drupal 98

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.

Open Source 36

Open Source NTC San Francisco Content 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. Because of the nature of open source, more money in the open source ecosystem is a good thing, and it is my belief that unlike “voodoo economics&# this will actually be a tide that lifts all boats. {

Open Source 100

Open Source Drupal RSS Picture 100

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.

Open Source 40

Open Source Integration Open Websites 40

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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Open Source Open Application Oracle 88

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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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

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! Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics.

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Open Source NTC San Francisco Open 36

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. rating items.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Many platforms, including Drupal and WordPress have responsive design themes available. " Then your system can send an automatic text confirmation and thank you if your constituent responded with yes. Creating a simple mobile app. AppMakr , SwebApps , MobBase , and TapTours are platforms for creating simple apps.

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Mobile Tips Broadcast Phone 55

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.

Consultant 111

Consultant Open Source Database Tech 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

And since it ties into Drupal or Joomla you get a complete frontend / backend system. ?? . ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 at 11:04 am Just wondering if you have seen [link] It runs on a linux server (which I do not think this MPower does? CiviCRM has a great forum for community. Thanks for a great site!!

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Open Open Source Blogger Press 100

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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Data API Mashup Contest 82

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. Second is that Linux servers seem to have made very serious inroads into nonprofit organizations, such that they are becoming almost commonplace. Third, almost everyone uses Firefox, or at least knows about it.

Gift 100

Gift Open Source Typepad Open 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Maybe we’ll see a downloadable virtual machine with MPower installed running off a SQLite db. :-) I’m also hoping to see some modules for integration with Drupal put together. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point.

Open Source 111

Open Source Open Tools Free 111

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

TOOLS AND RESOURCES Places to find reviews of tools and training TechSoup [link] Idealware [link] Aspiration [link] CompassPoint [link] NTEN [link] Web Site Hosting Electric Embers [link] Pair Networks [link] Thinkhost [link] Domain name registration MyDomain [link] Register.com [link] Network Solutions [link] CMS (Content Management System) Drupal (..)

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Skype Resource Internet Tools 40

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. By Chris Dumas, Product Manager, FirstGiving. Websites today are often full-blown applications. What are APIs?

API 84

API Social Media San Francisco Integration 84

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). What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Free and Open Source Software.

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Open Source Software Open Question 36

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.

Open Source 65

Open Source System Content Drupal 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

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. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use.

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Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

There are quite a number of really good CMS systems (both open source and proprietary – I’d say there are a good solid dozen) that have large user bases, many developers and vendors who implement them, and their are lots of new modules and functionality being added every day. But, that was then, and this is now. 2 admin 02.20.08

Drupal 100

Drupal Module Open Source WordPress 100

NTEN

JULY 19, 2022

In addition to writing and editing, skills required include: HTML and CSS Graphic software Content management systems Accessibility and compliance Project management HTML and CSS Skills in HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are a basic requirement. Common CMS platforms include WordPress and Drupal.

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Profile Content Web Management 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. at 7:46 pm Like everything in Drupal land, there is code for that… though the quality varies widely. With joshk as the maintainer, the quality should be better than average.

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Integration Drupal Module Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. The single largest CMS used was Drupal, at 15%, followed by Plone and Joomla (approx 8% each.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s yer CMS?

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Open Source WordPress Survey Drupal 100

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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Collaboration Project Data Lesson 80

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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Open Source Open Hunger Drupal 49