Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I use Canned Responses to provide HTML signatures when needed, and also forward all of my mail to gmail, then send out mail as other identities. (I’ve And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. It works for multiple projects. Evernote rocks my world.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! Promise to read the rest of this before you send me hate mail, though. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – "That's right, I said it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. management, membership programs, mass-mail marketing, peer-to-peer campaigns, and. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Check out the full roster of. more via one unified solution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Last year’s winner was Barry Warsaw, lead developer of the awesome Mailman mailing list manager. Check out the new images and videos of Android , the open source phone. The competition, judged by a panel of national leaders in public interest computing, is now entering its third year. Ruby Sinreich is a new phenomenon !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “I I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Next up, let’s see how the details of migration (web, mail, address book, etc. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. The Death of the PDF.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 18, 2008

John Crossman (Benetech's Director of Engineering) and I attended an interesting and exciting Google Open Source talk on AxsJAX at Google this week, by Charles Chen (the developer of FireVox) and T.V. There's a lot going on in gmail that doesn't require going back to the Google mail server. Raman (the developer of EMACSpeaks).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Set up a one-way or bi-directional sync between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types… …and my sync and UX needs are simple.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. .’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.) I’ve always really liked ThinkPads, and have owned a couple over the years to run Linux on. resides in Google’s data centers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’ll send off queries to the right mailing lists and forums, and probably eventually get it all worked out. With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { But plugging in a new monitor just should not be this hard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) As mentioned below, the most solidly supported functions are those related to mail.&#

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tags: CMS CRM Data E-mail Integration & APIs Open Source Web Sites IT Staff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? Register: Registration is not yet open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Since Evolution is such a bad mail client, I’m going back to Thunderbird. I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It integrates across Google Apps , a nice bonus for users who are already using Google Mail, Documents. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. is an open-source alternative that is based on many of the same.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. that you can sign up to claim and and update.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. Promise to read the rest of this before you send me hate mail, though. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. Open code mirrors the values of our own community. But have you ever implemented an open source solution? Long Live Open Source.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It provides nice integration with e-mail, with easy to configure notifications tied to discussions, announcements, and other interactive features. Drupal Commons.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It provides nice integration with e-mail, with easy to configure notifications tied to discussions, announcements, and other interactive features. Drupal Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag." Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

As I read case studies, blog posts and participate in sessions, I imagine replacing the term "social media" with "direct mail" or "email marketing." Ehren Foss has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The advent of open source technology and years of use by corporations have both made these technologies inexpensive and proven they are more agile and reliable than the complex systems most vendors currently offer the nonprofit market.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

upgrade and UGM Holiday Mailing Case Study. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Paul, Minnesota: QuickBooks Made Easy. Las Vegas, Nevada: Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: It's Not That Hard to Be Secure. Vancouver, British Columbia: RE 7.95 Wednesday, November 2, 2016. Monday, November 7, 2016.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising.

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