Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). The first one is one that I’ve been using recently for my consulting business – SugarCRM. It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS). Learning platforms, of course, are varied.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Last year’s winner was Barry Warsaw, lead developer of the awesome Mailman mailing list manager. NTEN keeps surprising me with cool stuff for nonprofit tech peeps. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008. Ruby Sinreich is a new phenomenon ! You go girl! And I’m on the board!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

There is even a new case management feature in 2.0, CiviCRM ranked #1 in satisfaction in the recent NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. { CiviCRM ranked #1 in satisfaction in the recent NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. { which can be useful for organizations that need that functionality.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Office 365 for IT Staff and Consultants Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 a.m. IT staff and consultants will have the opportunity to learn tips and tricks about implementing Office 365 at nonprofit organizations. Are you a community manager or builder? Special Office 365 Event for Nonprofits and IT Consultants. NTC logo: NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems. In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. of use in very large organizations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Michael Hoffman is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a longtime consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising, advocacy, and community engagement strategies. Elliot Harmon Creative Commons , Communications Manager. Elliot Harmon manages Creative Commons' various communications and social media channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&# Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That was one of the big reasons I had been looking for good web conferencing a while back (I’m still looking…) I’m starting my foray into this territory by giving a free course in the database management system, PostgreSQL. The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. I'm even more of zoombie after the event because managing events takes a lot of adrelin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

. &# It’s written by this guy, Alan Weiss, who has written the “ Ultimate Consulting &# series, which seems to be focused primarily on making a lot of money in consulting. One of which is something I would love to talk with other consultants (and clients, too) about. He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) Plugged it in, and it just worked. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I just had a great conversation with a IT manager at a medium-sized nonprofit that had implemented Asterisk for their call center. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. ’&# I do think that is something that we have a hard time getting across to folks. The bottom line, from his perspective, was flexibility.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Management. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Alliance Management Institute (AMI). The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Nonprofit Management / #AMI2019 / @NPL_Alliance. Nonprofit Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. Which, on one hand, seems like a lot, but it’s not, when every cell phone, PC, router, cable set top box and toaster has one. So in comes IPv6, a different kind of addressing protocol. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

I understand how important fundraising is (especially now as the coordinator of an organization that needs money,) but why aren’t there 5 big companies jockeying for space to provide nonprofits with reasonably priced, say, client management packages? at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head! I can’t agree with you more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

I’ve never understood why they rolled their own everything — forums, mailing list archives (at least they use Mailman for the list manager), bug tracking, etc. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager. You’ll want to make frequent, automated backups of your data to S3. Thankfully bandwidth between EC2 and S3 is free. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. I also appreciate the suggestion to bring my interest in technology to bear on my writing on management and related topics. I like the design of Ed’s blog as well.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Nonprofit Management. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Alliance Management Institute (AMI). The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Nonprofit Management / #AMI2018 / @NPL_Alliance. Nonprofit Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

can be a pain XWindows (x.org) can be annoying to configure if you go beyond the most simple KDE is a memory hog (I switched to xfce, and am thinking about other light window managers) There are some serious holes in available software Some things take a while to get set up – longer than on a mac.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions. So here is my current survey of the landscape. It is cross-platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’m particularly interested in the open source technologies that are coming down the pike that might bump Access from it’s perch as general-purpose nonprofit desktop database king, and that can provide nonprofits with flexible, robust data management solutions. So here is my current survey of the landscape. It is cross-platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

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? at 1:56 pm I’m currently working with a developer that has a Nonprofit Event Management SugarCRM build. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? Few apps let you actually manage your page, moderate comments, or other common functions. Forum One's Facebook Page.

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