TechSoup
TechSoup is a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits in the United States and Canada acquire deeply-discounted software and online services. Microsoft Office for $16? Adobe InDesign for $60?...
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Need to coordinate a phone conference or online meeting but don’t want to play the email scheduling game? Doodle allows you to easily set up a list of possible times and allow attendees to check off...
View ArticleVertical Response
Although there are many mass-email providers, including Emma, Electric Embers and Constant Contact (see the link to the Email Service Provider Comparison report, above), Vertical Response offers free...
View ArticleGIMP
Can’t swing the cost of Photoshop, even with a TechSoup discount? The GIMP is a completely free, downloadable alternative to Photoshop that offers a surprising array of powerful image-editing...
View ArticleEventbrite
Move beyond Evite! Set up professional event registration pages, complete with ticket sales, discount codes, post-event surveys and posting to Google Calendar. Payment is through PayPal or Google...
View ArticleDreamHost
There are lots of web hosts out there, and for particularly large or robust sites DreamHost might not be the best solution. But for smaller nonprofits it could be exactly what you’re looking for —...
View ArticleSurveyBob
A lot of nonprofits use SurveyMonkey because it's the "market leader" in surveying. It's OK, though its nonstandard, inaccessible form elements can be an issue. More significantly, it caps the number...
View ArticleEmail Service Provider Comparison
Stop overwhelming your web host by sending out your email newsletter through Outlook — and start sending out targeted messages to subsets of your subscriber lists. Groundwire’s report compares 10 “best...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
Michelle Murrain’s perspectives on nonprofit technology, with a specific focus on open-source software. Link: http://www.zenofnptech.org/
View ArticleTechnology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector
Nonprofit technology and software for techies, “accidental techies” and nonprofit executives alike, from Deborah Elizabeth Finn. Link: http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog
View ArticleIdealware
Idealware “provides candid Consumer Reports–style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits. Through product comparisons, recommendations, case studies, and software news, Idealware...
View ArticleDrupal for Nonprofits, or, How to Build Social Networks for Change
(Cross-posted to NetSquared) Earlier this month, NetSquared was generous enough to fund my attendance at the Lullabot Drupal Intensive workshop in Providence, Rhode Island. Drupal is a free,...
View ArticleJust what kind of social change are you interested in?
This month's "Net2ThinkTank" question: "Is Online Activism Good for Social Change?"As someone who was quoted in the "Social Citizens" report and has written in the past about technology and social...
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Hundreds Gather for Social Change Tech at NetSquared Year Three
The NetSquared Year Three conference has gotten off to a great start: nonprofit staffers, activists, techies and funders gathering to talk about — and award some money to — using technology for social...
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NetSquared Project Interviews and Session Notes
Some really incredible presentations here at the NetSquared conference, both from featured projects and individual speakers. Seth Horwitz and I are busily collecting information for next Tuesday's...
View ArticleCommunity blogs run better on open-source software
Earlier this month, Soapblox, a blogging platform used by many local progressive bloggers — especially community blogs — collapsed. In one fell swoop, hundreds of political activists' online...
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Finding the movement's voice: Online social networks and social change
Today at the Peace and Justice Studies Association 2009 Conference at Marquette University, I hosted a workshop called, "Finding the Movement's Voice: Online Social Networks and Social Change":The...
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Too few women in tech? Blame sexism.
Michael Arrington has a tedious post on TechCrunch up about the fact that there aren't as many women in technology, or — more to the point — in positions of leadership in technology companies or on...
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Two-click button foils Facebook tracking, a new tool for privacy-concerned...
Last month, the privacy commissioner for the German state Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert, announced that he would fine websites in his state €50,000 if they included Facebook's "Like"...
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Domain Registry of America is a scam. Don't let your nonprofit get fooled.
I know how registering a website domain goes in a small nonprofit: A volunteer or an intern or a staff person's nephew set up the website years ago and registered the domain somewhere — which perhaps...
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Free Drupal Q&A call for nonprofits and social change tomorrow, Feb. 28
Tomorrow at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific, Johanna Bates and I will be co-hosting the monthly Nonprofit Drupal Community of Practice discussion and Q&A call.This is a free conference call, sponsored by...
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