Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When it comes to WordPress, the Holy Grail of do-it-yourself Content Management Systems (CMS), updating isn’t just a good idea: it’s a critical component of using the site in the most efficient and secure way. And if you took your site offline for a major update, do a test of your pages before going live again.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Before making a decision, you’ll want to assess your needs and thoroughly research available platforms before making a decision. Compare top platforms. Compare top platforms. Define your website needs.

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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. The nature of how these sites are hosted creates tremendous benefits when it comes to performance (site speed) and security (the attack surface is greatly reduced).

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

And as such, it’s vital that certain elements of your site have an ease-of-use available to you: for the ability to make quick changes to content and page designs; to tweak donation or payment platforms; to move your site to another platform should you choose; and so on.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

" Or so said Aaron Pava , a strategist at CivicActions in his 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. " Other Open-Source Mobile Tools. Use responsive design.

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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. In addition, the Kaltura solution is now powering video on DoGooderTV, the video services and promotion site powered by See3, and home to the annual Nonprofit Video Awards.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

If your constituents could log in to your site and see content personalized just for them, or a reminder that it's been a year since their last donation, you'd have technology that goes a long way toward helping you meet your mission.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Carr Systems’ growth has prompted us to redesign our site to better reflect precisely what it is that we do for our customers, who those customers are, and the unique approach that makes us an ideal solution for SMBs, nonprofit organizations and public agencies.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. What’s to lose?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I did the research for the original report released a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while since I’ve come back to comparing these two platforms. A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. that aren’t one or the other.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

It takes only a brief look at the impressive statistics surrounding website builder WordPress to realize what an online juggernaut it really is: Currently, nearly 75 million sites are built on the platform and half of all those accounts are hosted directly on the company’s site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. What are the options for doing CMS-like things on the Force.com platform?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Treating technology spend as an investment rather than an expense can position a nonprofit for some advantages. Invest in Open Source.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

That said, the folks at WP Beginner have compiled an impressive list of creative shortcuts and work-arounds that can really up a user’s game and make the process of designing, launching and administering a WordPress site infinitely more seamless and easy. Here’s part one with seven tips and tricks, stand by for part 2 next week.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Want to know the number one reason WordPress sites get hacked as well as the number one reason users experience compatibility issues? It’s simply because the site itself—including those awesome little plug-ins that allowed you to customize your pages—isn’t working off the latest update.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

All of your digital marketing outlets, including email, social media, online ads, all seem to lead back to your nonprofit site. It’s hard to go past the research step of the donor journey when your nonprofit site is full of out-dated and inaccurate information. This means conducting regular nonprofit website maintenance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

WordPress is the world’s most-used Content Management System (CMS), and Salesforce is the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Embed the generated HTML on your site, and you have a form that submits the information as a new record in the Lead object. Dr. Rau is a well-known leader in the nonprofit technology field.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. Attending a WordCamp can be incredibly helpful for those who are very serious about building and growing their WordPress site. Get personal.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

While you should definitely explore the full site, here are the top five tips I distilled from the project. These open source tools include apps and tools for encrypting emails, texts, browsing history, and even phone calls. The tools support Windows, iPhone, Android, Mac, and GNU/Linux platforms. It is also 100% free !

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I did the research for the original report released a couple of years ago, so it’s been a while since I’ve come back to comparing these two platforms. A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. That is a deal-breaker for many kinds of sites.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

So, let’s recount the needs and constraints: Need to track progress, overseas, at every site where we work Need to do so while growing from 4 to 16 countries (on 2 continents) Need to do so from US headquarters office Need to depend on local, in-country employees We believed that technology could help us. It isn’t perfect.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. 2 admin 07.07.08

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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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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. at 12:59 am @sudha My organization is getting ready to launch a Drupal site with deep Salesforce.com integration.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

We set out to build a Software as a Service platform for start-up company Booster Pro. The platform is a suite of fundraising tools designed for smaller organizations, clubs and associations – the sort of nonprofit that doesn’t have a large budget and leadership is primarily volunteer based, so it turns over frequently.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. at 1:15 pm Open Social != OpenSocial is a set of APIs. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Nonprofits are often among the earliest adopters when it comes to technology and cloud computing is no exception. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. The savings can be dramatic too. Nonprofit CRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link].

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