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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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

In addition to this hurdle, we also had a non-mobile friendly website with an outdated visual design that affected both user experience and our search engine optimization (SEO). Integration: We were looking for a CRM that could integrate more easily with the suite of tools we used for fundraising, email marketing, events, and advocacy work.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. . To start your search, you need to understand the different options available to you. Journals and blogs.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

And, when done correctly, microsites can also be a powerful marketing tool for nonprofits. 3) Microsites can be a powerful marketing tool. When used correctly, microsites can be a powerful marketing tool for nonprofits. Microsites can seem like a good idea to give nonprofit digital teams a clean slate to create something new.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

Additionally, WordPress-related keywords get 37 million searches each month; the program is available in 40 different languages; and 22 percent of new U.S. Awe-inspiring to say the least, given the free and open-source content management system (CMS) is just over a decade old.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We evolved to focus on leveraging technology, like web design, social media, and other digital tools, to advance the causes nonprofits care about. Digital agencies usually do social media advertising, social media management, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, and websites. Q: What services do you offer?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Project Common Voice is a Mozilla effort to build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web. Sourcing and Supporting Wireless Innovations: Could Your Community Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. Since it is a very simple tool, it is highly customizable for each user’s needs. When you find a way that works for you, it becomes a tool that works for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

From what I can tell, Barnes and Noble is the only one of the list of these outlets that really distinguishes between self-publishers and regular publishers in the experience of customers viewing/searching for eBooks. Calibre : a cross-platform suite of tools for ebook management, conversion, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. Paint.Net — Fantastic graphics editing tool: [link]. Process Explorer — A Windows task manager & monitoring tool, much richer than the Windows Task Manager: [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments. We have also begun searching for a new senior executive to lead our Human Rights Program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 Hmmm, think it was that keyword? However, the bounce rate on that one was well below average, so maybe not.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

D2: Do I use the CRM vendor’s import tools? But the import tool needs to be well-tested. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies. The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. For more help, see this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. What is public?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." What Is Web 2.0? Text messaging.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

ProPublica Launches Online Tool to Search Nonprofit Tax Forms. ProPublica, an investigative-journalism nonprofit has launched a free online service called Nonprofit Explorer that enables the public to search the federal tax returns of more than 615,000 nonprofits. (Please visit the site to view this video). Nonprofit Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause. is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media.    This resource is for small to midsized nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in. As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even. 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. By utilizing free open source software, LibraryYOU and Pop Up Podcast participants are encouraged to take their training outside the library and continue creating.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software. www.groupsite.com. Hosting: Online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Specifically, it's a tool to help students explore how hardware works, try Linux, and learn to program. A quick Google search of Raspberry Pi projects produces a long list of ideas. Power source. hardware open source' Programming with Raspberry Pi. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5 600 mA (3.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine? .&# What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories? Or does it mean something completely different like suggesting that people use more than just the nptech tag and to include a one-sentence description?

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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. These will help drive your search for new training opportunities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them. Join the open source culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

By thinking first about the goals, you clear a path for the decisions around which tools you’ll use to get there. Open source. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Open Source – API. There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website.

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