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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. 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. I’ve blogged about Elgg before.

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Steal My Idea, Please! Why An Open Source Attitude Can Make Apps Go Viral

Care2

” We felt so confident that I even spammed my entire personal address book with it (sorry, mom). 111% open rate, 80% participation on the site, 1/3 forwarded it. Its reception blew away any of our previous metrics. At this point, we knew we were on to something.

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Free (and Cheap) Mass Texting for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

The FCC is also a lot more strict about SMS spam versus email, so you have to do it the right way (here are 5 ideas to get your organization started with mass texting ). Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. 01 per text depending on your plan).

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It Takes A Village: Joining and Participating in the WordPress Community

Byte Technology

After all, the platform is open-sourced, meaning anyone and everyone can contribute to it in the form of updates, new themes, and custom plugins that help create more functionality and give the program greater versatility and, in turn, greater popularity.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. Hashtags and their usefulness are definitely open to interpretation. Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. In the case of hashtags, I am a firm believer in less is more.

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