Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money. Sunsetting Microsites. Once a campaign is over the site content needs to be updated or migrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

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. to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Here's a few (formally) connected conversations and roundups: The nonprofit blog exchange has posted pointers to the last round of blog posts for the virtual event, along with a summary of nonprofit blog exchange blog posts. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Lucy has more coverage on her blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

open government data to improve education and health care, decrease energy consumption and increase socially minded buying. It summaries what was mentioned in the White House’s recently released Smart Disclosure And Consumer Decision Making report. Open Source data digital storytelling big data'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. Perfect Password generator.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

And it de-mystifies the possible options through user-friendly summaries based on your needs and technical maturity. While you're taking advantage of the free shipping, I'd suggest also taking a look at FLOSS Manuals' Lulu store , for great manuals on free and open-source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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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. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

In related news, Michelle Murrain reviews the new open source products from newly re-branded NTEN member organization Orange Leap. This time, she includes some summary and analysis of the recent Ask-Expert session with Wendy Harman , who happens to be Chief Listener over at American Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

To vote, read through the Voting Guidelines , and their handy Voter Guide , which includes short summaries of the 150+ nominated projects. Open Source, Open Standards Video. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning. Point K.

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Here's a summary of what we found. How do these systems actually compare to one another? Don't be afraid to take a CMS for a test run.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . The listener could then choose a specific summary to listen to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. Do you read the summaries? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. Be Helpful.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can learn more about Neon Websites’ pricing by downloading our pricing guide: Down Neon Websites’ Pricing Guide Summary Neon Websites offers something for nonprofits of all sizes. Summary Wix is a decent option for early-stage nonprofits that are looking for a user-friendly and affordable website builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Robin Good's site has published a summary of a report by Australian Flexible Learning Framework called " Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals and Organizations " Reading the live blogging from the PDF Conference and twittering is making a lot of us wish we were there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And, if not, you can always sign up for the FlipVideo Spotlight Program camera giveaway.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems This is an excerpt from the 60-page independent Idealware report that provides a summary of what open source content management systems are, what features are often useful to nonprofits, and a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems This is an excerpt from the 60-page independent Idealware report that provides a summary of what open source content management systems are, what features are often useful to nonprofits, and a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone.

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