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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

That said, below are 12 stats to consider and research further about online fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker. Source: GlobalWebIndex.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Top tech companies like Google, Facebook and IBM have figured out how to make vast quantities of money by giving away their core product, or building products on top of open source and free software. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. As an expert on commerce and culture, I am sometimes commissioned to do sponsored research. First up is the use of social media to disseminate research. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building Web Building.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Before making a decision, you’ll want to assess your needs and thoroughly research available platforms before making a decision. Either way, you should start the CMS research process by defining your website needs. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional. in Residence. ASU Lodestar Center. Do volunteers count?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There is a lot of experiments and research in different areas, including the international development sector to address the 2030 development goals, emergency and humanitarian aid, medical fields and many others. There are also research reports , events, fellowships, and bootcamps , and an annual AI4Good Global Summit.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Emilio Tavarez. Juliana Pereira.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

have unlimited texting and 97% of US adults text ( Pew Research, 2015 SMS stats, and 2018 stats ). Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. Well, free-ish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. My degree is in English and I originally planned to do a PhD and go into research (on 18th century feminist women???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

Women and Open Source and Identity. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. Female Ferocity. ROI of Social Networking. Speak Up: Pitching and Public Speaking Mojo. Building the Ultimate User Experience. They are also hosting after Parties in DC, NYC and SF so come on out!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Research you’ve been too busy to do, something you want my unique opinion on, something you’re curious about. Here’s my list of upcoming topics: Has Open Source won or lost, or is the struggle still going on? Updates on Open Content and Copyleft of things other than code that nonprofits might be interested in.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We’ve been conducting research into what’s happening in these areas already to be sure our work adds value. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” million in one day. Now it’s your turn.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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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. Excellence – Website for Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Align for Health. Distinction – Website for Health.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

As outlined in this Kanopi article , the donor journey is composed of 5 basic steps: awareness, research, decision, appreciation, and repeat. This describes the awareness and research part of the donor journey. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. 3) Giving 2.0: Philanthropy'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. The PDF is.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. These ads can help drive traffic to your website by targeting users who research topics similar to your nonprofit’s mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. So, I did some research, and realized that the best choice for me was to get a Thinkpad – most everything works right out of the box.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. There is already research out there on how climate change is disproportionately impacting people of color. Clayton Aldern. Data Strategist, Grist.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

To make strong security accessible to the community involved in human rights documentation, we developed Martus —a free, open source, secure tool for collecting and managing sensitive information. For instance, we know that it is not only current defenders and activists who could be at risk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. Read an interview of an Android developer. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. More on that in a later post. {

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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. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Long-time users of Twitter are concerned about hate and harassment after Elon Musk recently acquired the company, as some accounts that were previously banned for violating the platform’s content policies are now reinstated.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. Those first three elements make up the communication arm of my practice. The other arm is learning. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Start researching nonprofit courses that will fulfill your training goals.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. We did significant academic research on the millennial generation and emerging giving trends. Achieve helped organizations with case statement, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising campaigns.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They’ve been doing some nonprofit research. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it. Convio is getting into some interesting territory these days. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

In partnership with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the LIT project will dramatically enhance the availability and quality of accessible educational material for students with print disabilities at all levels of education.

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