Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

The SXSW Panel Picker is now open for your thumbs up or down on the thousands of panels proposed for next year’s SXSWInteractive festival. NPTech Panels Want Your Votes! What’s SXSWi ? Learn more at: [link]. There are many exciting proposals available for your vote.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. And I’ll highlight where the comparisons are interesting and compelling, especially for nonprofit organizations. PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.). Non-profit CRM (including “SaaS&# in the proprietary camp). CRM/ERP more generally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). Now of course it used to be that all of my Facebook “friends&# were other nptech early adopters. facebook nptech. so I still feel connected.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 7, 2009

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). Now of course it used to be that all of my Facebook “friends&# were other nptech early adopters. facebook nptech. so I still feel connected.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Technology. Open Data Leads to Development: Is This Wishful Thinking? Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community. Find out what they want and need.

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TechImpact

APRIL 18, 2014

It can also leave your nonprofit open to criticism. Social Tech blog content marketing nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' ” This is a question that’s been asked since the dawn of the internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace.

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TechImpact

MAY 30, 2014

Here are 10 tips to help your nonprofit get its email marketing off the ground, into more inboxes, and opened more often. General Mobile Tech email marketing Mobile Technology nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech' Image courtesy of Sikich.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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TechImpact

JUNE 6, 2014

If you’re unhappy with your email’s open rates, you might want to look at your design. 47% of emails are opened on mobile devices. Mobile Tech email email marketing mobile Mobile Technology nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' But are your emails being read? Image courtesy of litmus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, Songbird has emerged, like many open source projects do, as a mature, stable, and, in Songbird’s case, a truly awesome application, because of the incredible extensibility of the Mozilla framework (and the talent of the Songbird developer community.). It’s a cross-platform music player based upon the Mozilla framework.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu. Be Helpful.

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TechImpact

MAY 5, 2014

The people who you’re truly targeting will generally open your emails, find your comfort zone when trying to reach them, and stick to it. Instead of adding in an image that loads upon opening, add a link to the image instead. Link to images. Image can be distracting and draw the attention of the reader away from the email’s copy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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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. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { Why is this good news for nonprofits? Be Helpful.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 30, 2013

As a result, It is important to make sure that your subscribers are not discouraged from opening, reading, and engaging with your emailed content. There is no need to use flashy language or catchy cliches that may discourage a recipient from opening and viewing the content. Let us know in the comment section below. Analyze and tinker.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It’s up to you to decide whether or not that hand is open, closed, close to the donor, or across the street. Fundraising Tech data database donation donations donors nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech website' about optimizing its donation page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? NpTech Software. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2008

One question that will inevitably be asked: can free and open source software save organizations money? Open source software is both free as in “beer&# as well as free as in “kittens.&# But if you have a migration planned anyway, now is absolutely the time to look at open source software. Confusing, huh?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. I’ll still be building websites (and their successors) for the foreseeable future with Drupal, and perhaps with whichever cool, new open source development framework comes next after Drupal becomes irrelevant (it will, eventually).

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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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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Voting is now open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference session proposals! > Voting will be open through September 30th. Tags: 11ntc NPTech NTEN. > Vote Now. I'm not gonna lie: this is not a quick & easy task. It took me about 90 minutes to vote on every session. Fundraising. Leadership.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The amount of emails being opened, websites being navigated, and sheer volume of communication that is occurring on mobile devices every day is a rapidly growing number that is not expected to slow down any time soon.

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NetWits

APRIL 15, 2013

Maybe even that: Mobile email opens are predicted to surpass desktop opens this year. Appearing underneath your subject line, preheaders should help persuade constituents to move to the next step, opening your email. Content Marketing Email Marketing Interactive Mobile #nptech email eMail marketing Non-Profit nonprofit'

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TechImpact

APRIL 25, 2014

Emails boast a 12% open rate There’s been a 14% increase in the number of online gifts Additionally, there’s been a 14% increase in online revenue. Industry News Mobile Tech content marketing email marketing infographic nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech technology' Some key statistics include: $324,890,672.61

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2009

The search tool has been in beta for the last couple of months, open to new users by invitation only while its developers gathered feedback from early users. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 Now, as of August 25, LazyFeed is available to the public. At first I wasn’t sure that LazyFeed would.( read more ). Video RSS search.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2013

Because #GivingTuesday is a movement, it’s open to anyone who wants to be involved. Emerging Trends Industry Trends Research & Trends #nptech Blackbaud fundraising ideas non profit social media Non-Profit nonprofit nonprofit social media online giving Social Media for Nonprofits' Other data sources showed increases as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? I have social media ennui. Can it be demoted now?

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