Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! For instance, the site you point to get themes is not free (nor as in free beer or speech) Leo,, 2 admin 01.30.08 4 admin 02.05.08 5 Laura Whitehead 02.07.08

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. Receive ideas, products, services, or support for free/cheap (keeping in mind that your time is still a cost). It isn’t free – and that’s okay!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As employees in the nonprofit sector, we often rely on the transferrable skills we've gained over time to accomplish our jobs. We don't usually rely on any course of study pursued or a job description of our previous position. You can find NTEN on Twitter @NTENorg, and Steph @stephrouth. About the Author. Images: NTEN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the free or low-cost tools and resources listed below to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. However, if you decide to use this service, pay for it because the free service requires WiseStamp branding. Social Media.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

This past April, how did you file your taxes? Did you mail them or e-File? Find your last job? Tell your friends and colleagues by sharing these links through email, Facebook, and Twitter. Tags: Advocacy free press Leadership net neutrality NPTech. How did you pay your last parking ticket? Watch a funny cat video?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icon sets are available to download for free. However, if you decide to use this service, pay for it because the free service requires WiseStamp branding. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Slack :: slack.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: Diana Scimone is a free agent fundraiser. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many website services promise quick and easy setup free of any long-term planning or custom coding, and—while that may sound alluring—it can cause certain roadblocks in the future that prevent you from scaling your online presence. Clearly conveying your nonprofit’s mission is one of your website’s main jobs.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in your questions and comments. I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. They do really, really good work for their clients, and they’ve also got a ton of free resources. There’s a chat box and a Q&A box.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs. The cool thing about Chatter is that it’s free and you don’t need to be a Salesforce user to take advantage of it for your organization.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

® found when evaluating 90 nonprofit customers that the top 5% of influencers on a nonprofits email list of 140,000 can reach an average of 34 million people , or 85% the total reach of email and Twitter combined. Goal: Email this list with the call to action to “share on Twitter”, “Post on Facebook”, etc. Attentive.ly®

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Have a centralized file system to store media. Jargon anyone.?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

They offer a free trial demo, for those. product, I highly recommend utilizing their free website grader tool. If you can't quite afford their services, check out their blog for a wealth of free guides and resources for all aspects of online marketing. 502(c)(3), free advertising on Adwords (up to $10,000 a month!)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Esther Adams and Andrea Sandvig from Project Mirador came to our TechSoup offices in San Francisco to tell us about their wood burning stove improvement that provides a better quality of life to low-income farm families while reducing CO2 emissions and creating jobs in the region. They allow you to back up and restore files.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to the twenty-first episode of the Nonprofit Hubcast, our podcast that’s dedicated to making your ears happy, your job easier, and your nonprofit more remarkable. So what you want to look for is people in your email file. So that’d be a great place to start and it might also be free. One of them is free.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seth writes “Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. The problem is same as the twitter resistance: The internet represents a change. None of them are non-profits. Not one as far as I can tell.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location. BlueHost is w low-cost web and email hosting company with excellent customer service and free SSL Certificates.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Google AdWords has a great free tool for assessing the search frequency of your keywords. and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Have a centralized file system to store media. Jargon anyone.?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

The number of low-cost or free apps and online tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. IFTTT is a free applet creation service based ont he the premise of if this happens, then do this. Periscope is a mobile app connected to Twitter that enables nonprofits to easily broadcast live from special events or while on location.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I only needed to dump it from the temporary file into blogger, but I couldn’t find the five minutes. And, I did a pretty good job. In my early career, time was vast and free, or at least it felt like it. In case you’re wondering, I shred the output after the job is hired. Sure, there were five minutes somewhere.

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