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News from NTC ‘08

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 News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This post gives me the chance to finally write the very belated post on MPower I’ve been meaning to write since I got back from NTC. I had a great sit-down with Randy McCabe , CEO and Leo D’Angelo (CTO) of MPower at NTC. MPower is not a new product. It’s been around for quite a while, and has a solid user base.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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2011 NTC Preview: 6 Steps to Refocus Your Small Org Tech Strategy

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Leverage the SMALL ORG ADVANTAGE by looking for donated or discounted licenses. Source anything that doesn’t add value For almost everything on the infrastructure side, look for hosting opportunities; outsource support and simple solutions that meet 80% of your need (instead of investing in powerful tools you don’t use).

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Creative Commons Affnity Group at NTC

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He gave an informative overview of the creative commons licensing and how TechSoup is using the licensing. Some good points about why nonprofits should use creative commons licensing: Reducing time and cost of granting permission. I am sitting in an affinity group session for nonprofits and creative commons.

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2011 NTC Preview: Going Online for Capacity Mapping and Resource Matching: The Big Picture

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Thus far, an informal brain trust dedicated to this topic has communicated and collaborated through a private list and closed-door meetings; the NTC in March will mark the first time that we open our conversation to everyone who is interested. How can online tools help a project succeed? Some rights reserved.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I ran into an old colleague at NTC , and it came up, because he had been thinking of contributing to the journal, but decided that he probably won’t, for reasons I will talk about. It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available.

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