Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. The top three technology challenges for respondents are building websites, managing data, and fundraising. Wednesday, January 18, 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Your Nonprofit Website: WordPress. Upcoming Events.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return. We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website. rating items.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Our live, in-person events are hosted by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Not sure if hosting a NetSquared group is for you? This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. You should, because it's awesome fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But I help them plan their technology initiatives (a new database, a new website, etc.,) 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As an event host, you build your reputation, develop new tech skills, and give back to your community. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert!

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Websites today are often full-blown applications. 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. What are APIs? Donations and Payments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? I set up a mysql database in my standard generic virtual hosting setup, copied the downloaded and unzipped Joomla folder into my webspace by FTP, and fired up my browser. Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy. Um, sorta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own websites, blogs, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 27% of online donors say that email is the tool that most inspires them to give (social media 29%, 18% website, 12% print). Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Email messaging raised 28% of all online revenue in 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). But I guess it might be useful for some. 3 Jill 01.31.08 at 7:41 pm A couple of interesting things about Yugma. I’ve used that alot. Give it a try.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Take advantage of these webinars for more information on creating your website strategy. This podcast hosted by Julia Campbell—digital marketing and fundraising expert, nonprofit consultant, and author—helps nonprofits build their communities. NTEN Publications. This resource provides free webinars from key fundraising leaders.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

As a connoisseur of charity websites, I have to say how surprised I am that so few have blogs on them. Here’s how to get going on adding a blog to your website and also how to promote it. Two I’d recommend first are Beth Kanter’s Blog and NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward's personal blog. WordPress Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The best way to accomplish those tasks depends primarily on your CRM, although if you are using a proprietary CMS, a hosted CMS service, or an older CMS, you might run into trouble with integration. Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

BuddyPress – Works with WordPress but requires customization for some online groups. It could be an ‘unknown’ to your community, in fact that might give your host a more neutral starting place. Find someone who demonstrates the fluency, skill, passion, connecting instinct you want in a host and bring them in to your world!

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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. WordPress WordPress is a great choice for fairly small (a few hundred pages or less), simply arranged websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Websites & Email. BlueHost is w low-cost web and email hosting company with excellent customer service and free SSL Certificates. Wix is a do-it-yourself, low-cost website builder.

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