Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2021

How easy is it to see and run reports? . Can you easily add tags to contacts to document their acquisition source or engagement data? If you are new to tagging think back to our office fridge example with canned drinks. A tag is like someone putting a label with their name on it or a sticker (i.e., Segmentation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. This report also includes our new directory of the consultants and firms who help nonprofit create websites and implement these Content Management Systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Media Cause

JUNE 21, 2022

Some of the major features introduced included: Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) : This feature, which turned heads at many big companies, stops senders from adding invisible pixels to the emails they send, which stops companies from seeing when an email is opened and masks IP addresses. This allows transparency that users haven’t seen before.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! It’s a good practice to occasionally tag important partners and sponsors in image tweets, but doing so often will only annoy them. Keep your eyes and ears open for Twitter Chats relevant to your mission and programs, save the date and time, and then jump in on the day of.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Today, we are very pleased to announce the release of the Data Ecosystem Report. Still, these reports were only shedding light on a small slice of the software pie. So download the report , and share with us what this report means to you and your organization. Of course, life is rarely that simple.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report. Open up all functionality to anyone who has proven their elevated role in the group. To get the original post on the Online Community Report, click here. Tags: community strategy case studies community building guest post. —– I love my community.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

Setup a Google Analytics 4 property and get the code on your site, ideally through Google Tag Manager. This is a GREAT time to move to Google Tag Manager as it will create a home for all of the different tracking codes your site has, track changes and make sure they don’t hurt site speed as much. DO THIS STUFF LATER (but not too late).

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

At its most basic level, it’s a system that manages information about donors and gifts so you can understand how much you’ve raised, keep track of all the useful information you know about your donors, manage mailings, emails and campaigns, and print reports on all this information. Querying and reporting are also particular strengths.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Read all of Keisha's blog posts and follow other coverage on the IGF social reporting aggregator. A beautiful rendition of "What a Wonderful World" opened this year's IGF in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tags: Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Gregory Heller, CivicActions Not long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. CiviCRM got great scores in NTEN's Data Ecosystem Report.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

We've written previously about the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive. Last week the White House issued a new memorandum titled " Guidance on the Use of Challenges and Prizes to Promote Open Government " (PDF) — a further step towards citizen engagement. State Department.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. One big idea was that funders should be educated about the value of nonprofits adhering to open-data formats and require that projects they fund meet certain criteria for open-data. Tools Web Building. Tools Web Building.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

Forum One co-sponsored the Open Development Barcamp at the World Bank on Friday. So what exactly is open development? We badly need an open standard for publishing web content: reports, tools, resources, case studies, blog posts, etc. Tags: International Development.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

While these changes give users more control over how their data and information are being shared, they’re also forcing organizations to change the way they track and report on their digital performance. Declining email open rates. For most visitors, Google Analytics’ cookie expires after two years without a return visit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5 Storytelling Framework.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 17, 2011

It has tagged ideas that are “Coming in the next release.” Let’s start at the top… Exception Reporting, also known as Outer Joins. I kind of like to call this the “raise your hand if you’re not here” report. Next there’s the ability to report on multiple children at the same time.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

Watch the video clip At the recent Demographics via Candid launch event , Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green opened with a powerhouse keynote, followed by Ann Mei and Anna Koob, senior research lead at Candid, to further set the stage with details on the initiative and the demographic data Candid collects.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

Here are a few options: Better Than Nothing Export Go through the major reports of Audience, Acquisition, Behavior and Conversions and export data in a PDF for 1 year at a time and then save it in an organized series of folders by year. More details on this from Google: Export and share reports – Analytics Help.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Tracking open and click-through rates for each segment provides data to refine messaging. Ongoing reporting about distributions, aid delivered, and people helped provides accountability and the incentive for donors to continue their support. Tag and thank them. Track donor preferences and engagement over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here. A Few Web2.0

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Robert Weiner

MAY 5, 2010

I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. Email open rates remained steady at around 20% but click-through rates declined. Its findings included: The 151 nonprofits that provided data for both 2008 and 2009 reported that overall donations fell by a median of 9% while online gifts grew by 5%.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! And, while the report itself is great, a live webinar that digs into the research is even better! In case you missed the event, here’s a recap of two of the top trends to watch this year: Open Museums and Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

According to a report released yesterday by Nielsen Online ( download PDF ). And, gasp, the report lists e-mail as No. This shift has primarily been driven by Facebook, whose successful formula opened up the possibilities of social networking to a much wider audience. Tags: social media research snippets. million).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. communication surrounding disaster relief and reporting."

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Qgiv

MAY 8, 2023

These notifications might include a 24-hour reminder of the event, when the silent auction opens AND closes, and a thank you for attending message. You can use it to promote all your event sponsors, with custom “Thank You” graphic, a short description, and tagging the business’ social media account. in 2012 at the age of 24.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

adults have reported fundraising for or giving to a peer-to-peer campaign during the pandemic. Challenges: In a challenge fundraiser, participants volunteer to complete a pre-determined task, record and share the challenge on social media, tag the next person to complete the challenge, and, of course, submit a donation online.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open Philanthropy is about sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

" Download the 2009 Data Ecosystem Survey Report | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – NTEN just released a report on the data ecosystem in nonprofit organizations – it's free for members, but $50 for non-NTEN members. "The Here are five things non-profits should consider before pursuing texting."

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And with a $0 price tag, it’s a tool that your nonprofit can’t afford not to maximize. Access to data alone won’t increase donations to your cause but understanding which reports to analyze and reacting to donor behavior can. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 21, 2013

Summary reporting – Create sheets that show items not completed. These report sheets update automatically every time they’re opened. Tagged: online project management , Smartsheet. I’d much rather just define the column’s picklist values and be done with it.

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