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Free and open source tool #8:XChat

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 #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) It is basically group synchronous chat. Be Helpful.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If there are two acronyms that are at the center of nonprofit communications, it’s these two, CRM (Constituent Relationship Management - and I’m making this broad enough to include fundraising) and CMS (Content Management System). What’s involved in this? First, the what - what to integrate?

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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The search for good web conferencing

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 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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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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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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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. FL: How can nonprofits benefit from your new Open initiative? SH: Open APIs allow nonprofits to bend systems to fit their particular needs.

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Essential Windows 7 Utilities for Setting Up New PCs

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7-Zip File Manager is an open-source free download that compresses and uncompresses files or groups of files in most formats - ZIP and GZIP, TAR and ARJ, CAB, and DMG files. Any changes you make on one device are synchronized automatically to other devices. Definitely worth a look at this top seven list. Ninite Updater.

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