NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The external one-time implementation costs – hardware, implementation/migration costs. External one-time implementation costs (hardware, installation, configuration). My advice to any organization faced with making this decision: Take the time to answer the questions above. Be sure you know all of the costs: Licensing.

Seattle 71

Seattle Nonprofit Sample Measure 71

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. and licensing models. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

Open Source 88

Open Source Open Application Oracle 88

NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site? We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. . Tags: 09NTC brian_rowe creative commons ip NPTech NTEN. When someone posts a positive comment on your blog, can you use it in your fundraising materials? Yes, there is.

NTC 36

NTC Generation San Francisco Content 36

NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Even non- conspiracy theorists would likely have a hard time summoning up "transparent" as one of the top three adjectives to describe our government. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. It's another thing for NTEN to lead in this area.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Public Open Source New York 60

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Laptop Open 100

NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Modern systems should be user-friendly to both direct service providers and administrators, provide real-time feedback, and generally make everybody's lives easier. It's time to develop your organization's theory of change, to make sure you track the "right" information. Do screens look clean and inviting to use?

System 40

System Management Evaluation Demographics 40

NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

That's what turns a one-time donor into a long-term supporter. . Here's what I think we'll see on Recovery.gov that nonprofits should think about: Real time data: The administration is going to be swimming in data, but you can bet they'll collect it in a way that makes it very easy to publish on the site. You can do it, too!

API 36

API Remix Map Law 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Tags: community guest blogging online communities.

Share 57

Share Learning Chad Tutorial 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people.

Facebook 97

Facebook Stats Los Angeles Tips 97

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

Integration 100

Integration API Drupal Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

Journal 100

Journal Change License Model 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Do you set limits on time, on topics? The organization has to be willing to put in the time. At this year's NTEN conference , the thing I heard the most had to do with message. Time is also a barrier. Via a now defunct site, design site license, I stumbled on Blogger and was blown away. Setting up a blog is easy.

Nonprofit 50

Nonprofit Listserv Org Attention 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

Screencast 50

Screencast Widget NTEN Badge 50

NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He shared his experience of posting to the blog twenty times per day, five days per week with a gazillion people following his moves. I followed the blog around the time of my travel to Venezuela in 2007 during which time the blog reported on the controversy surrounding the license of privately-held RCTV.

Kansas City 76

Kansas City Venezuela Kansas Broadcast 76

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. Simi says that one of the big advantages of using Salesforce is that "everyone is on the same page at the same time", all the information is in one place, and everyone knows where to update it. . Managing Events .

Google 88

Google North America Management 88

Tech Soup

MAY 29, 2009

We've linked to Jeff Brooks' Donor Power Blog several times in the past. While we're on the subject of fundraising, NTEN and M+R Strategic Services have released their eNonprofit Benchmarks Study for 2009 ( Robert blogged about last year's report). Photo: Ann Althouse , CC license. Tags: Accessible Technology.

Fundraising 43

Fundraising License Benchmark NTEN 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" want to waste some time. No matter what type of metrics you trying to figure out.

Metrics 50

Metrics Web Tools Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Alan Jordan posted the following : A constituency session comment re-iterated a line shared with me a long time ago from a concert hall manager in Concord, NH who passed away from cancer a few years back: the official moniker for 501(c)3s is not “non-profit,” but “not for profit.” And that’s a goal or objective too.

Social Media 50

Social Media Money Chicago Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it. And, with web-based applications like Co-Tweet or HootSuite you can share the tweeting across teams, pre-schedule your tweets and other time-saving tricks.

Literacy 75

Literacy Twitter Feeds 75