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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mass texting, or SMS (Short Messaging System) are generally 160-character–long messages that are sent, as the name would suggest, en masse. We love SMS because it boasts a 99% open rate, and users are more likely to respond. Please don’t contact us about getting on this list if the tool isn’t upfront about pricing. Twilio.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

When it comes to choosing a Content Management System to build and manage your website, the choices available might seem a little daunting, especially to a novice just trying to get their feet wet. An Open Book. Even someone with the most basic computer software knowledge can pick up the fundamentals of WordPress design quickly.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

And I’m sure that the very low stock price of Kintera’s certainly made a buyout of it by Blackbaud easier. And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM. Today, Blackbaud announced the acquisition of Kintera. And how will Convio react?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

And make it reasonably priced. It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. Be Helpful.

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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 “academic” debate around Drupal typical centers on whether Drupal is a Content Management System (and hence primarily for standard website) or an Application Development Framework (and hence ideal for data-driven, application production).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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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. In the beginning, it was lack of software (I first tried this back in 1999), or printer drivers. Good specs, cheap price.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

The first thing to understand about membership database software is that the name itself is pretty misleading. To choose the right membership database software for your association, you first need to look at what it should do for your members. That’s where membership management software comes in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

But then, Apple dropped the price $200, and it made me ponder. The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. There are better sites for music and there are adequate players for 1/5th the price.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The big kicker, pretty much as always with Blackbaud, is the price tag. Expect a $35-45K price tag for development and integration. Their SaaS offering, NC Grow has a $20K/year price tag. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. The data from these systems is then used to inform the recommendations provided by the LXP. Even further, should you invest in one? What is the difference between an LMS and an LXP?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Blackbaud hasn’t been doing so well , in the stock price department either. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Time will tell. { 1 trackback } Blackbaud buys Kintera » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 05.29.08 Time will tell. { Be Helpful.

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JULY 27, 2008

It’s a lot more than price – it’s quality of work, whether you like their previous work, their overall reputation, as well as their fit with you as an organization. { I do think the biggest mistake an organization can make in the re/creation of its website is to go with the vendor with the lowest bid. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

I agree with her that open journals are the future. She says, at the end of her long entry: Making systemic change like this is hard and it will require every invested party to stand up for what they know is right and chip away at the old system. I don’t have tenure (and at this rate, no one will ever let me). Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

What if instead, the government made certain data and systems available to citizens, so that we could design and build our own vending machines? Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag. Redefining government is the next step.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Second, the dramatic rise in food and gas prices directly impacts a small donor's cash flow on a daily basis and, in turn, ability to donate. Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. This has the largest direct impact on the major donor end of the spectrum, as well as foundations and some government programs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

What ticks me off is that by far, the richest (and I mean that in many possible senses) area of software development in the nonprofit sector is … fundraising. went into other software and data needs of organizations, I daresay they might not be in as much of a pickle as they are in terms of making choices about vertical apps.

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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.) But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Which is fine. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But, as an organization’s needs grow, this kind of system becomes burdensome and labor-intensive. The solution to this dilemma is a customer relations management (CRM) system (sometimes called a donor management system in the nonprofit arena). There are dozens of CRMs out there that cater specifically to nonprofit needs.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? What are the best eLearning authoring software? What is course authoring software?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Website builders are software platforms that allow users to create and manage websites without needing to write code. One system might be affordable but a nightmare to use, while another is a bit outside your budget but comes with the perfect templates and a seamless user experience. That’s where website builders come in.

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APRIL 26, 2021

To bring your virtual event to life and provide an experience that’s just as enriching as an in-person one, you need the right fundraising event software. In this guide, we’ll dive into the different types of fundraising event software that nonprofit leaders have successfully leveraged for virtual events. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

As an applied research center, we are also able to build software tools when there isn???t The rapidly expanding availability of Content Management Systems for Web sites. t a viable option available from the commercial sector. For example, we???ve ve worked in the arts and technology field for quite some time now.

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Event management software for nonprofits brings all planning elements together in one place, streamlining your preparation and saving your team time and stress. Research shows that over 85% of event planners use event management software to bring their events to life. What should nonprofits keep in mind when browsing event software?

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APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases. We’re now able to innovate and adapt without the constraints of a system that wouldn’t move with us.” – Jeffrey Klein, Chief Operating Officer .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make. And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). Fewer choices means less competition, which means that prices will likely rise. Blackbaud has done other acquisitions in the past.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. The First Universal Software Platform for Financial Inclusion Launches.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

For basic texting (SMS); group, video, and picture messaging (MMS); and VoIP phone calls, try Signal from Open Whisper Systems. It's also free, developed by a nonprofit, and open source, so you can feel confident that there aren't any backdoors in the software. Peer-to-Peer. Difficulty: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Thus, the journal has a fee, although we’ve done our best to make the personal rate much lower than the organizational one and in no case are we anywhere near some of the stratospheric prices of many mainstream journals. I count among my careers software engineer, business entrepreneur, tech writer and fiction author.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Keisha recommends checking out the book, The Human Face Of Big Data , as a way to get a grasp on how all this new information is creating a nervous system for the humanosphere.

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