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MAY 28, 2009

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Open source is a community-driven effort.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. The system integrates tightly with common Web site content management systems with online payment and form-building functionality, like Drupal and Joomla. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap. Organizers Database (ODB).

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Most likely, you want one that can evolve over time as your needs change. Most likely, you want one that can evolve over time as your needs change. Ongoing maintenance is a necessity, unless you choose Drupal Gardens , an affordable solution for simple sites. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I get a lot of email all the time from people hawking various wares, fundraising ideas, new ways to use Web 2.0, In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll probably be talking a lot about Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

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. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. at 8:31 am Drupal and Salesforce 12.31.09

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

With so little free time on your hands, it can be challenging to figure out which ones you must attend in May and June. Time: Discussion starts at 4:00 PM Networking Happy Hour to follow at the Salsa Office at 5:30 PM. There are so many great conferences coming up for the nonprofit community. Check out our top picks below.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Even non- conspiracy theorists would likely have a hard time summoning up "transparent" as one of the top three adjectives to describe our government. The New York State Senate website is built on Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. More orgs will hire CTOs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. . At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support. OK, enough of that.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. Open Source is Dead. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. I’ve been caught using the “free as in kittens&# metaphor many more times than once.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV " Greenpeace UK is about to launch a new drupal site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) This is a must-read. There are 18 articles. Is this wave of the future? No worries.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. How do we know our options?

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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. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. They both have good documentation and active communities. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Be realistic about time from organizational staff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) 2 Elin Waring 01.27.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Maybe it is time to re-read the nonprofit version of Flipping the Funnel ? Happy Birthday to drupal ! Declaring Open Source - a one-line patch to the US Code would make open source software a charitable deduction. Definitely a must-read, particularly the post by Steve Bridger on the power of storytelling.

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