Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website. And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). I even occasionally still hear tell of organizations who want custom CRMs.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives. Back in 2008, founder Marc.( read more ).

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. The internet is an endless stage and platform, and when we are up there speaking, we expect you are all listening. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

This is when you create a map of your professional network to better understand connections and their diversity that can enhance or support your professional work and learning. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. What surprises you?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. But will it get better as a result? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some of these organisations provide their own data, others give access to curated data collections, offer access under the Open Data movement or provide software/Data-as-a-Service platforms. Open Source data big data crowdsourcing'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Second trade off, all of these are proprietary. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 It’s supports a distributed social networking, uh, network.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Ning , the leading free social media platform provider has recently lost not only its CEO, but also about 40 percent of its workforce. At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. Hosting: Online.

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Care2

MAY 24, 2010

When Facebook launched their Open Graph API last month they thought they had revolutionized their platform. Has Facebook angered its base so much, that its user base could fizzle out in the next year as more people and nonprofits demand control of their own social data and look to other platforms?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cohuman is one of several project management platforms that offer free accounts to nonprofits. Teambox takes a social networking approach to keeping your team synchronized. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy.

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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. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. More and more, now we can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. He referenced that there are over 371 platforms for social change data. That’s a good thing because lots of people are addressing social issues, but it is also a nightmare? Notes from Session.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Battle Non Profit submitted by Beth Kanter Using just one special ingredient (a small in-need non profit), three web teams will meet in the heat of Austin to craft an exceptional meal, featuring a tasty new homepage design, a well-seasoned fundraising email and a perfectly balanced social networking plan. Who will prevail? With snacks!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I’ve also been digging a lot into the new(ish) social network software Elgg , and beginning to develop a members-only site with it for a client. In my estimation, it’s amazingly promising, as a platform for interesting private sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Email is a critical channel.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We would hope that these marketing algorithms could inspire really valuable educational recommendations in the future, but before that happens there is a lot of work that needs to be done to improve interoperability between learning platforms, accreditation platforms, and identity management platforms, among other things.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Nonprofit Tech for Good is built on WordPress and in our 11 years of publication, there have been zero problems with using the platform. that your nonprofit uses.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There are two sets of social roles here. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? CEO Kintera steps down.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services. The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

world and nonprofit’s wanting to carve out their space in it, it’s important that we: 1) Spend some time (not all of it) capturing people’s basic contact information (name, state, and email address at the very least) as part of your social networking strategy. There is an open standard for microblogging.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

But there are also specific solutions that directly support virtual efforts, like livestreaming platforms. These are: Event Registration Bidding Software Text Fundraising Livestreaming Platforms Volunteer and Staff Management Online Shop Video Editing Software Graphics Software Event Day Solution Liability Waivers. Text Fundraising.

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