Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The web software landscape has changed dramatically over the years. And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Tools Open Source Drupal Adobe 100

Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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Social Network Ning Drupal Network 46

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits? Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? The web, it???s Platform??? Container???

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