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. Drupal gets a “Solid&# on Scalability and security.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 22, 2011

tags: consulting toblog freelancing. tags: toblog webdev webdesign drupal. tags: toblog webdev consulting. 24 ways: Contract Killer. OpenChurch | drupal.org. The Art of Estimation | Lullabot. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Ongoing maintenance is a necessity, unless you choose Drupal Gardens , an affordable solution for simple sites. For complex you will almost certainly need some outside help, whether that’s a one-time build or an ongoing consulting relationship. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? Drupal Camps.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Work with a website consultant. For nonprofits, two CMS platforms stand out as the most effective, well-rounded systems for long-lasting websites: WordPress and Drupal. According to Kanopi’s Drupal vs. WordPress guide , both platforms are excellent options for nonprofits because of their scalability and flexibility.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

All technology implementors have to choose their tools (unless they run a very large shop) and we have decided to focus on implementation of both Salesforce.com and CiviCRM as CRMs, and Drupal as a CMS. Tags: CMS CRM Consulting Database technology Nonprofit Tech civcrm drupal nptech salesforce. And you can follow us on twitter.

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MAY 6, 2024

This post is adapted from a presentation at DrupalCon Portland 2024 , where Forum One and Metro showcase Drupal’s role in driving long-term digital modernization and multi-site integration. This included consulting on defining requirements for multilingual features, as well as accessibility and inclusion approaches.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

Drupal for Nonprofits/Social Change : For those who work in a nonprofit using Drupal or work with nonprofits using Drupal. Nonprofit Tech Consultants : For nonprofit technology consultants. IT Directors : For folks who make key tech decisions at nonprofits. Have an idea for a group? Let me know!

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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 report also includes our new directory of consultants and designers who help nonprofits implement these Content Management Systems." Get the Tagline Database and Report!" Which are easiest to use?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

If it is a relatively new CMS (like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others) they may not need to bring in a new developer – they may just be able to get a book, or buy a video to teach them how to use the web interface to create new regions and widgets. Are there many consultants and developers who can assist you with this platform?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I spend some amount of my Drupal and WordPress development time, both for my clients and for myself, in setting up one or two-way integrations between websites and social media sites. The apps I use most on my phone include the Facebook app for Android and Tweetdeck.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Monday 1:30: So you want to be a consultant … ( Robert Weiner is organizing a great group of consultant types, including me.). Tuesday 3:30: So you want to be a consultant, part II. I can’t wait!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

In fact, even if you just focus on the “big three&# open source CMS – Drupal, Joomla and Plone, 85% of nonprofits will likely have their needs fully met. Hint: I hear there is way more Drupal demand than supply of expertise. ) { 1 trackback } Idealware 03.16.10 How do we know our options? 2 admin 02.20.08 Yes and yes?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Advanced Drupal Theming. I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM. Designing RESTful APIs. CiviCRM for Advanced Users. Business Models. Tech Cooperatives.

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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

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. at 7:46 pm Like everything in Drupal land, there is code for that… though the quality varies widely. With joshk as the maintainer, the quality should be better than average.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2008

However, PHP is the basis for Drupal, which is inarguably the most popular open source CMS system, and WordPress, inarguably the most popular Blogging platform. So PHP it is, starting with Drupal. It’s also the basis for Joomla, a CMS I appreciate. So my first steps are to find some projects to help out with, volunteer for, etc.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

accidental techie arts blogging commbuild Community community of practice consulting data drupal it Leadership women' If you''re looking for peers who will help you hone your skills and develop your career or network, I hope you''ll take a few minutes to peruse the COPs , and join one or a few. Thinking of starting one yourself?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

It can integrate with both Drupal or Joomla, and there is a new stand-alone version as well. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration. Otherwise, it’s easy to host it on a generic hosting account, if you don’t need that functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09 The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? 3 sudha 01.15.09

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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. While Joomla supports more complex site structures than WordPress, it is not as flexible as Drupal or Plone. Drupal's latest release, 7.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. Because of the nature of open source, more money in the open source ecosystem is a good thing, and it is my belief that unlike “voodoo economics&# this will actually be a tide that lifts all boats. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. They just released version 1.5, which, I must say, rocks. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

To help, we’ve included a directory of consultants with experience installing and implementing the systems in this report, organized by geographical region. To help, we’ve included a directory of consultants with experience installing and implementing the systems in this report, organized by geographical region.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Don''t miss Idealist Consulting ''s free Engagement Party for social changemakers. Planning to make the switch to Drupal? Then don''t miss Promet Source ''s upcoming webinar on switching and migrating to the Drupal platform. Are you headed to Salesforce ''s annual Dreamforce in San Francisco next week? RSVP and boogie on down.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

Cindy Lackow, a senior Salesforce consultant with Fíonta, pinpointed four existing issues that needed to be addressed with the new system. A Better Website : A visually appealing and responsive website, which was built on the open-source Drupal Content Management System (CMS), allowed us to better serve all of our audiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

The single largest CMS used was Drupal, at 15%, followed by Plone and Joomla (approx 8% each.) The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And while the company itself is only a couple of years old now, Directus CEO and cofounder Ben Haynes actually started toying with the ideas that led to launching Directus as early as 2004 after leaving the Air Force and starting a web consultancy business. Image Credits: Directus. Today’s Directus is obviously not a PHP app anymore.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

And since it ties into Drupal or Joomla you get a complete frontend / backend system. ?? . “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 CiviCRM has a great forum for community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Second is that Linux servers seem to have made very serious inroads into nonprofit organizations, such that they are becoming almost commonplace. Third, almost everyone uses Firefox, or at least knows about it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Check out the following CoP's and their upcoming events: The Nonprofit Technology Consultants CoP is a forum for nonprofit technology consultants to help facilitate frank discussion about working with nonprofit organizations. The first call of the Drupal CoP will be on Wednesday, October 5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Ivan Boothe , Rootwork.org , is a Drupal developer and consultant to nonprofits around online organizing and social media. What are you experiencing on your Facebook pages and does it vary for you across traditional Pages, Places, and merged Place-Pages?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). Talk to folks using it, to consultants and to developers. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Drupal, Joomla is run by a foundation, as is Mozilla and many others. Apache is arguably the best web server software on the planet – and it is owned and run by a nonprofit organization (the Apache Foundation). In fact, many, many successful, usable, high quality software projects are not backed by shareholder investment at all.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Top feature: Drupal offers advanced security features to keep online data safe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Maybe we’ll see a downloadable virtual machine with MPower installed running off a SQLite db. :-) I’m also hoping to see some modules for integration with Drupal put together. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point.

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MARCH 19, 2011

She takes pleasure in learning about technology (like her recent Drupal and CiviCRM projects) and takes on the challenges that come with it. She is passionate about technology and has a desire to see others achieve great things through its use. It’s that determination that has allowed her to help so many people and nonprofits over the years.

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