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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. that your nonprofit uses. The button should be large and colorful so that it is obvious and not easily missed.

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What is “organic” software?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was perusing the program for a local “green&# event, when I noticed a full page advertisement for Firefox, saying that it’s software was “ 100% organic.&# For Firefox, it means, “open source, community-powered.&# I kind of chuckled. I thought, what does that really mean?

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Some lessons from the “enterprise”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. And that’s because in the enterprise world, for the most part, open source software is a given part of the mix. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Technology Link Love

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. I love Holly’s approach to technology. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. org, a Networked Nonprofit. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website.

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Great reads from around the web on February 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" 10 Non-Profits Leveraging Pinterest for Social Good – "There’s no question that Pinterest is the hottest social network right now. "The survey revealed the dramatic lack of trust Americans hold for sources of election news of all mediums. This isn’t always the case. In fact, it rarely is."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun!