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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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The Future of Nonprofit Technology: Some Predictions

NTEN

More orgs will hire CTOs. Technology will finally enter the c-suite of not-for-profit orgs. But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important.

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis - to break down recommendations by size of organization.

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization.

Database 113
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Data-Driven Nonprofits: Issue 7 of NTEN:Change is Live!

NTEN

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. DIY ROI: Use this checklist from Network for Good's Tanya Lee to make smarter technology investments for your org.

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7 Keys to Effective Branding in a Social Media World

NTEN

And, because your org is discussed on infinite communications channels, it's more important than ever to brand your organization, programs, and campaigns. This must be real, or it will undermine everything your org is trying to do. The challenge of branding in an open source world. NTEN board member Nancy E.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

We envision taking ProvingIt to an open-source platform, and ultimately offering it across the sector to those who share our desires: to track progress, to be honest about failure, to transform conversations with donors, and to measure impact not just once, but over long periods of time. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011.