Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

This is a GREAT time to move to Google Tag Manager as it will create a home for all of the different tracking codes your site has, track changes and make sure they don’t hurt site speed as much. Begin creating your reports and dashboards from the new GA4 property as data comes in. DO THIS STUFF LATER (but not too late).

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University Analytics Google Grant 59

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 88

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Model cards were introduced to make reporting on AI more systematic, including what data was used to train and evaluate the AI, limitations of the AI, and appropriate usage guidelines. We maintain a historical record of our model cards to track the AI’s evolution over time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Reports of the death of email are, of course rampant, for the past, oh, 10 years or so. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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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. SaaS Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.   Key in a report by calling (567) 258-VOTE/8683. A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.  votereport???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

If you are shopping for a low cost CMS for your nonprofit, read this post and go download the report. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

People can donate to your organization via Paypal only, and you can track donations in their very simple interface. You can export your donation history into a CSV file, and you can make your reports into PDFs. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. There are no APIs.

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Mediawiki Paypal Blackbaud Open Source 100

Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Business Intelligence tools for analytics reporting, projection analysis, and data visualization to effectively manage your data and insights. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. A marketing automation platform to manage your content outreach and tracking.

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Marketing Impact Create Tips 47

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign.

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Integration Open Source API Synchronous 100

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

This way, you can compile custom reports that track your multi-channel strategy progress in real-time. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. It’s essential that these processes are integrated to ensure that the data used in your other marketing content is accurate.

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Channel Websites Tips Fundraising 72

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. For example, an at-home healthcare organization can use the app to support intake, needs assessment, track the progress of a patient, and conduct an exit survey when they no longer need your services.

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Survey Mobile India San Francisco 65

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. But suffice it to say that they convinced *me* that they are on the right track. Be Helpful.

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NTC News Open Source Convio 111

NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. Mid-stream we realized something phenomenal: We could make this platform 100% open to the public and not hold our performance data behind a curtain.

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International Project Org Technology 60

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It can display data with maps, lists, charts, timelines, and other visual reports. These folks do astonishing work.

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Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. Imagine being able to grow your donor base and keep track of each donor profile. Plus, you can track your communication efforts easily with their dashboard analytics! From event management to ticketing to registration and checkout to payments to reporting and analytics, you’re covered.

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Software Guide Nonprofit Analytics 42

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, manufacturers showed of everything from smartwatches to fitness trackers to headbands that track brainwaves! In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Mobile Tips and Tricks.

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Mobile Trend Italy Phone 57

Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. Reporting CE issuance to accreditors is also a mess (are you familiar with PARS? ). Just as importantly, ledgers transparently track the movement of credits from party to party – in our case, from CE provider to certificant to certifying board.

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Hype eLearning Model Badge 60

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign.

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Integration API Drupal Open Source 100

Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu.

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San Francisco National Honolulu Global 55

Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

The goal is to provide this training and track and report on educational outcomes for the association as a whole. LXPs take this a step further by tracking: Each individual learners’ activity, such as what learning experiences they’re completing. Let’s examine these two solutions side-by-side to note key differences.

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Platform Experiment eLearning Learning 36

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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News Technology Cancer Map 52

Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

While 79% of organizations report sending a welcome email to new constituents, less than one-third use welcome calls. Associations with new member renewal rates above 60% report regularly using welcome phone calls to start their new members off on the right foot. That’s a major missed opportunity!

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Database Software Guide Open Source 52

NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. While the feature set includes identifying project resources, allocating time, and tracking completion, etc., In 2003, he won a "Top Technology Innovator" award from InfoWorld for developing a retail reporting system for Goodwill thrift.

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Project Tools Management Sharepoint 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

to track personal fundraising campaigns. Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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Nptech Summary Green Hosting 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins. It'll be fascinating to report on those developments — and put them into practice — in the years ahead.

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Share Learning Chad Tutorial 57

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Care2

JANUARY 23, 2009

Plus it’s difficult to measure results, because there aren’t many good reporting tools. Click2Call, a new online tool that the folks at web development firm Advomatic have built on Drupal’s open-source software platform, is the latest indication that patch-through call campaigns may finally be ready for prime time.

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Time Service Advocacy America 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Taxonomy Metrics San Francisco Ghana 61

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

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. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

According to a recent survey by Isovera , “Of all respondents, 51% reported separating ties with at least one Drupal vendor before the project was complete.” Remember, although you want to make the wisest decision possible, you do not have to stay married to your decision. Tip 8: Look to the future/change over time.

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Drupal Websites Build Support 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

"Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Freecharity.org.uk

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