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Your Complete Guide to Membership Database Software

Neon CRM

That first email will be personalized, refer to the member by name, and remind them of the specific benefits of their continued membership. Unlike a new recruit, you already have some history and knowledge of the lapsed members that can help you bring them back to the organization.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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Encarta – The Dodo and the Dinosaur

Tech Soup

Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there. To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me.

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SOCAP12: Let’s Talk Big Data for Good

Tech Soup

A hot buzzword in 2012, big data refers in this context to all the information captured online or via mobile transactions around the world each second. Thankfully, what was once incredibly expensive is now much more accessible thanks to the rise of open source software and cloud computing. What does it mean?

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Free Shipping on Idealware's 2010 Field Guide

Tech Soup

Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits. Through a friendly, easy-reference format, the Field Guide helps you pinpoint the types of software that can increase your organization’s effectiveness and efficiency. From Idealware: What types of software should your nonprofit be using?

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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