Techies of the World: Lend a Helping Hand During Mozilla Service Week

By now, many of you know that Mozilla Service Week happens in two weeks, September 14 to 22. But some of you may have missed out on all the buzz, and might be wondering what Mozilla Service Week actually is — and (hopefully) how you can get involved.
If this is you, have no fear. Mozilla’s [...]

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Attend an NTEN Conference…from Your Laptop

For nonprofits, conferences represent terrific opportunities to network with other organizations, learn about new resources, and get insight from renowned experts. But with the economy in the dumps, it’s difficult for budget-tight orgs to foot the bill for travel expenses and registration fees.
Thankfully, the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) has come up with a solution (to [...]

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Grants for Green Action: Apply by May 22, 2009

The nonprofit action heroes at DemocracyInAction.org are giving away a year’s worth of their supporter management and e-advocacy product to 5 environmental organizations as part of their Green Grant program! Apply by May 22, 2009 to enter.
As a Green Grant recipient, you’ll get full access to the Salsa platform and community to help [...]

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New Nonprofit Tech Reports: Website, Social Media, Donor Software and more

The NTEN Nonprofit Tech Conference, held in San Francisco, Apr 26-28, was fertile ground for launching new reports for the sector. Here’s an overview of reports you should be aware of:

Nonprofit use of social media: The Nonprofit Social Network Survey report compiles the experiences of ~!,000 organizations in social media. The report shows that [...]

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Nonprofit Technology Conference: Cool Stuff

In case you haven’t heard, the NTC, put on by the amazing folks at the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) was a raging success. With over 30% growth in attendence over last year, the organizers had to reorganize the space a couple times to be able to accommodate as many as possible. So what made it [...]

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NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference: Tune in live, connect, and find me

Sunday, April 26 starts the NTEN extravaganza in San Francisco. 1,400 people for this nonprofit technology event! Here’s a couple tidbits you should know to get more out of it (whether you are here or not) and also where I will be.
1. The “Science Fair” (aka trade show) is open to the public! Please join [...]

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NTEN session on integrated communications tools for nonprofits

Later this month will be the largest nonprofit technology convergence in the country, the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference. This year’s event is held in San Francisco, CA April 26-28. Last I heard it was already over 1100 attendees and approaching sold out!
I’m excited to be sharing some of the work and technologies ifPeople has been [...]

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Take the Nonprofit Social Network Survey

In lead up to the NTEN NTC conference, you can help understand the nonprofit sector’s use of social media by taking a survey jointly launched by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort. The results will be launched at the NTEN NTC conference in late April (in San Francisco).
Click here for the survey.
Going to NTEN NTC? Check [...]

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New report out comparing open source content management systems

The report aims to help nonprofits make decisions on open source CMSs, but would be useful to anyone evaluating a content management system. Idealware, who provides objective information on software for nonprofits, has released a new version of its report comparing Plone, Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. This report is more detailed than ever and encompasses [...]

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