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JANUARY 4, 2022

With social media platforms and a dynamic website, you can spread the word about your mission easily and attract new potential donors quickly. Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach. Wishlist drives. Virtual craft fair.

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JUNE 4, 2021

As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users. If you want to optimize your modern fundraising strategy, you have to meet your supporters where they already are— on the internet. This can take place via live stream or with a video conferencing platform. Leverages common tools. Virtual House Parties.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet. Pacific time.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. I subscribe to Apple’s “New Music Tuesday” e-bulletin. Tags: Macintosh mobility. They don’t have to make it easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

One such platform was Typepad. Typepad is a paid service based on Movable Type , a very popular blogging platform, that is proprietary. Two and a half years ago when I moved off of the blogging platform I wrote, I wanted a platform that would allow me to concentrate on writing, and not on tech. Now, there is.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? This is big. The SDK will be available later this month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

It’s cross-platform (available on all platforms) and works really well (the old player was a bit buggy, but those have been really smoothed out, of late.) You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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APRIL 3, 2008

Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. { Adobe (yeah, Adobe ) joined the Linux Foundation , and released a Linux alpha of Air , their new application platform. {

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. The reason why The Fog is emerging is because of the amount of data overwhelming our 3G and 4G mobile networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. I think so, but maybe I’m just nostalgic.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

I think in some ways, this might decrease LinkedIn’s usefulness as a platform for fundraising or constituent-building by nonprofits (it has always seemed less viable for this than either Facebook or MySpace.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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JUNE 17, 2008

. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It is named, as of now, Aikido.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Thunderbird is cross platform, too, so if you’re like me, and hope between platforms, Thunderbird is there with you. I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

It is cross-platform and written in Java (and, I think, shows off the strength of the Java framework.) But that is great – if you know your stuff, you can get a lot of performance out of Azureus. Bittorrent is a bit of an arcane art (and, of course, getting a bit of a bad rep, since it’s the major avenue for P2P pirating.)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) So, there is now one less nonprofit CRM vendor to choose from, and Blackbaud keeps getting bigger. But will it get better as a result? Hard to know. Will they continue in that direction?

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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. Did you switch platforms? I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). Is this typepad? I like it a lot. 2 admin 07.21.07 at 10:46 am It is not typepad.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. It is certainly better and more secure than IE.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) for writing one-page fact sheets.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. I could think of several interesting implementations in the nptech world that would be fun (like it would make a great e-learning platform for, say, circuit riders, or folks like that.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. 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.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? However, the bounce rate on that one was well below average, so maybe not. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 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

JUNE 1, 2007

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter is a president and co-founder of nuPOLIS is the Internet presence of the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a national non-profit helping to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems such as education, energy, land use, transportation and workforce development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. Now things are getting interesting. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. This is very cool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. We’ll be adding in our e-advocacy platform as a future step because we’ll need to change what platform we’re using as the GetActive platform we’re on now is going away.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It is cross-platform. PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports. It is also cross platform. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS.

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