Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I do this based on my knowledge of the options out there, my own opinions about them, and, most importantly, the feature match. But in terms of long term sustainability, from my perspective, picking one of the well developed open source CMSs and running with it, can’t be beat. I mean, it doesn’t even have objects !

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Jasper, Indiana: Web Pages and Hosting Options. Seattle, Washington: Building Better Websites with Web Accessibility. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Currently, he's blogging about his Web Office experiment which is well worth following. The two week long ' Great Web Office ' experiment was inspired by IT Redux's Office 2.0 The question are web 2.0 You can read about the 'web office 2.0' You can read about the 'web office 2.0' So, tell me about your Office 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint. Humans are trouble.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. The World Wide Web Turns 25. We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

From my perspective, there are four elements to a technology support process with this as a model: Assessment – where is the client – both in terms of technology knowledge, as well as in terms of what they need at the moment? Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Sounds fun right?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

While many larger organizations have already done this, smaller nonprofits and libraries, which have had leaner budgets for technology upgrades during the economic recession, will be investing time and money in 2013 into catching up on optimized sites for mobile web browsing. IoT is definitely not a new thing. called Martus.

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