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12.10.12How to Install Janrain Federate on Drupal 6.xI'm in the middle of doing an installation of Janrain Federate on our Drupal 6.25 installation. Janrain Federate is a single sign on solution for Web servers. This is an enterprise solution so it means your nonprofit should be ready to deal with what it means to personalize the Web experience for your users. There seems to be very little discussion on how to do this on Drupal. You need to have some intermediate Drupal skills to do it. Basically, you will need to understand how your themes, custom modules and template.php interact to emit Javascript and HTTP headers. You'll have to ...
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12.07.12Want to see a new Google Community for nonprofit technologists?Hey all, Google Plus now has communities and I've made one for nonprofit technologists. It's at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105979228113489699226 Please join if you're a coder or an architect. It's really a group for people who implement technology. Front-end dev code is also very welcome. I tend to specialize in Drupal/web analytics code lately so there's already a PHP snippet to use Drupal even better with Quantcast. I'm dropping off code I've written for people to take a look at and I hope others will too. On another note, if you need to get your social media groove on, this community is not recommended for you. ...
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08.23.12API Examples for Nonprofit TechnologistsIf you're evaluating a company for how well-documented their product is, the best bet is to look at their API documentation. It should look like this: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference or like this, https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api. However, I just happened upon a nicer and more understandable format at: http://weblog.bocoup.com/documenting-your-api/ Notice the general openness of the documentation. It's as if the people on the other side actually want you to adopt their API and add copious notes and don't saddle you with a goofy interface. Anyone willing to post a nonprofit CRM API that looks at least as good as Google's or Twitter's? Feel free to go nuts in the comment section. I have ...
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12.16.11Five years from the start of work on Twitter…Tonight, I got to listen to a marketing class over at St. John's college over in Queens, New York discuss the use of social media and how it would apply to Autism Speaks (I work there now as their Web architect). They were just as immersed in it as much as anyone else and they were all so very young (at least to this 41 year old). It's amazing to me how quickly popular culture has picked up on social media. It's only been five years since work started on Twitter and notice the use of "140 characters" as a ...
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10.29.09Do me a favor — vote for Perla Ni on the Huffington PostHuffington Post is looking for readers to vote for the ultimate game changer in Philanthropy. And I think the readers have so far voted Perla Ni, head of greatnonprofits.org, to be the ultimate game changer. I'd like her to keep that lead and to do so, I urge you all to consider throwing in a vote. She's trying to create a Yelp for Nonprofits which is sorely needed in the nonprofit world. Any time I see someone promoting democratic oversight of nonprofits, I'm all for it.
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06.24.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part IIYou've read about my operational plan and theorems in Part I of this series. Here's why I chose Drupal to carry out the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress website instead of Wordpress. Continue Reading...
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06.22.09Why Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Base Should Blog for Your NonprofitUpdated 10/2/2009 (new graphic and stats!) An alert reader has asked me for a chart on the effect of blog entries on site traffic. I took the time to create a little data table from the Google Analytics reports for APA for Progress. Please be aware that the Jun-09 figures were run on 6/22 so the figures are incomplete for June. These figures run from 1/1/2009 to 9/31/2009. In essence, I'm adding 3 months of extra data. As you can see in the chart above, there's a high correlation (.883) (previously .945) between the number of blog entries and ...
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05.04.09Animoto For a CauseCheck out Animoto for a Cause! I've been a long time user of Animoto and I'm actually a paid subscriber to Animoto. I've had a lot of fun working with their software to make vacation videos out of pictures I've taken. The way Animoto works is that you upload a bunch of pictures to their site and perhaps an MP3 for a soundtrack and their software creates a video out of your media. For nonprofits, this is a godsend especially since most nonprofits don't have dedicated staff for making sophisticated multimedia. The time it takes to upload pics and video ...
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02.18.09Build A Nonprofit’s Technology Assets From The Ground Up, Part 2 OF 4This is the second part of Build A Nonprofit's Technology Assets From The Ground Up, Part 1 OF 2. In this post, I talk about the website tiers of the Maslovian hierarchy of nonprofit technology needs for the small nonprofit. Unfortunately, this article about a nonprofit website is so long that I've decided to expand the series to one long posting for each of the website, CRM and social media layers in the pyramid. And that's why this series is now four parts long and not two. Website Why do I make having a website more important than a CRM? You need Web traffic ...
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01.27.09Mobile Tech Barcamp In New York!If you're in the NYC area, please visit Mobile Tech For Social Change NewYork. It's a $25 Barcamp over in Manhattan: Event details A one-day event on Saturday, 21 February 2009 in New York/Hunter College's 'Black Box' Exploring mobile tech to advance social development and social change goals Interactive, particpatory, hands-on For anyone interested in how mobile phones are changing the way we And no, I don't know how that last bullet item ends. Think of it as a mystery you can solve by attending. It's a pretty cheap event and I think it'll be fun to watch what people are up to.
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