Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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See3

APRIL 28, 2009

Leading provider of online fundraising, education and advocacy for nonprofits partners with the first open-source video platform. “We are excited that we can finally, wholeheartedly, recommend a video platform to our clients,&# said See3 CEO Michael Hoffman.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Last week, I was down in Austin, TX, for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

In short, all of them are used to describe digital platforms and services, separated from the presentation layers presented to users, with everything stitched together via APIs. When done well, this means users can interact with your organization’s website, mobile app, and other digital channels in a seamless and personalized way.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

Optimizing your content with personalization allows for audiences to interact with the most applicable content for them, thus creating a better, more engaging user experience. Optimizing website content requires analyzing the hierarchy of information on a platform to improve website traffic and outreach. Discovery and User Modeling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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JUNE 7, 2021

For years, the LMS has reigned supreme as the top learning platform for associations. However, as you begin searching for your association’s next solution, you’ll quickly come across a new option on the market— learning experience platforms (LXPs). Why are learning experience platforms rising in popularity? Let’s dive in.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But just the same there are lots of CMS platforms promising all sorts of wonderful things, from being easy to learn to easy to edit to having a nice cheap price tag. Today nearly 75 million sites are constructed and managed on the WordPress platform—which first debuted in 2011—and there are some very good reasons why. An Open Book.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. The Bloomerang Payments processing fee is 2.2% + $0.30

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Does your nonprofit use a bot?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We Bentley Motors’ new digital platform is a crucial component of its goal to become a leader of sustainable luxury mobility.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. Stay tuned.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes. Instead, interactive tools, customization, and smart strategy allow nonprofits to go far beyond this to involve supporters in meaningful actions online that accomplish their mission.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, the platform is open-sourced, meaning anyone and everyone can contribute to it in the form of updates, new themes, and custom plugins that help create more functionality and give the program greater versatility and, in turn, greater popularity.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Organizations can no longer use their digital platforms to simply explain their mission or successes. Instead, interactive tools, customization, and smart strategy allow nonprofits to go far beyond this to involve supporters in meaningful actions online that accomplish their mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I am attending the South By Southwest Interactive panel discussion entitled “A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World.&# Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Second trade off, all of these are proprietary. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Join Caravan Studios CEO Marnie Webb ( @webb ) and a panel of other app development experts for a highly interactive discussion in which you can learn their app development secrets. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s See Thomas Friedman? Global Energy Observatory ? We think it?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments. That seems a little more elusive.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Choose the right platform that will set you up to get the most out of your campaign. Team up with local news.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Open Atrium.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Open Atrium.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. Lots of the social media and interactive Web 2.0 What Is Web 2.0?

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. They fail when there isn't buy-in, shared understanding, and lots of interaction. Think of it as MS Project lite. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open?

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See3

MAY 4, 2009

New Video Platforms for Nonprofits. We unveiled our partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform, to provide exceptional video solutions to nonprofits. It was exciting to share this platform with the community and listen to the real needs of the sector. New Video Platform.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Your gala event is a culmination of a year or more of relationship building, multi-channel outreach and face-to-face interaction, just like a social media fundraising campaign. Plus, you can pledge on Facebook, Twitter and soon more platforms which helps the impulse to donate move through your network.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Ushahidi created and deployed its platform in about three days to be used by ordinary Kenyans, allowing them to report incidents of violence happening around them. Surveyor is for teams collecting multiple data types from many sources.

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