Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

Dean's been working in IT since he was 16, and secured a systems engineer position when he was 19 years old. I asked Dean for IT tips that I could pass on to small nonprofits, and since I knew Dean was an open source advocate, I asked him his thoughts on open-source solutions for the nonprofit community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. What do those guidelines look like? .&# Be Helpful.

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APRIL 3, 2011

tags: php webdev toblog opensource. tags: drupal modules toblog. tags: CMS opensource report toblog. CUBRID – Open Source Database Management System Optimized for Web. tags: opensource database toblog. tags: testing java toblog webdev. tags: opensource etl data integration toblog.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. and Drupal.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link].

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2009

Ask anyone in the nonprofit technology community about Content Management Systems, and they're likely to mention one of the following: Drupal. Tags: OSS NPTech NTEN laura quinn websites foss content management CMS 09NTC. We like them because they're free. We love to hate them because there are so many twiddly bits to adjust.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2010

Back when CVS (C0ncurrent Version System) was the standard. As I learned more about newer version control systems, I tried them out. More and more folks are moving to distributed version control systems. I began to understand the great advantages of those systems, and decided to pick one to standardize on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Fundraising with all free software.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Free and Open - Any and all subjects are fair game. Server-side Platforms - SOA, tools, application severs, and databases.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? Anyway, if you’re looking for a great social network management system that won’t get pulled out from under you, try Elgg. Tags: Technology Zen Web2.0 Using free services is fine, but know why they are free. nptech opensource socialmedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn. So how do you get SMS data into a database system like CiviCRM? You need an SMS gateway, and systems such as RapidSMS to gather data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. I’ve spent quite a bit of time with this one, and more to come, I’m sure – like any open source project, there is a lot that could be done to make it more usable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems.

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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. But as the old saying goes, buyer beware: many CMSs are long on promises but short on delivery. Money Talks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. NIDA is a partner with Khmer Open Source Project , an Open Source Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions for software applications and operating system , a Linux SuSE 9.3

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. 1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 You can log in using OpenID. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

The idea is to take advantage of a PDF’s ability to retain a consistent appearance across different computer systems: to simplify the job of the newsletter editor, who must put together a lot of different reports submitted by the various committee chairs; to enable readers to share the newsletter easily, regardless of.( read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

As you know, I have built a long-time expertise in open source software and web applications, particularly Content Management Systems (CMS) and online database systems, including CRM. Tags: CMS CRM Consulting Database technology Nonprofit Tech civcrm drupal nptech salesforce. And you can follow us on twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. The proprietary consolidation of the CRM/Donation management system space continues apace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

But I have to admit that this seems to me a bit too much like a gateway drug - get them hooked on free, then move them slowly but surely to much more expensive systems. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. Technorati Tags: blogher nptech In particular, these are the not very interesting, subtle or telling measures used to make indexes like the Technorati Top 100 or the PubSub 100 or the Feedster 100.

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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! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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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. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Seesmic is a video conversation site. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We conducted vendor satisfaction surveys for the Constituent Relationship Management , Content Management Systems , and the Donor Management Systems nonprofits use. Tags: CMS CRM Data E-mail Integration & APIs Open Source Web Sites IT Staff. service, support, usability and overall value of the software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

They saved some in cost from a proprietary PBX system – but then they had to spend more on support and the like – it was a wash cost wise. It takes more, because you own your own system. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. But then, you own it – you can do much more. brilliant.

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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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