Nptech Articles

There are some very sophisticated techniques emerging into the semi-mainstream this year. You may not have noticed, and you may not care. But if you can get the hang of it managing the blogosphere, there's a lot to be learned.

Paul Farmer is an amazing member of the nonprofit community, famous in his own circles of public health and international development.

If you like to think about branding ...

I have't worked directly with them but they do good work

The concept of eRiders is deceptively simple

If you need a free place to host your website

Podcasting is not complicated. It's just audio. The problem lies in finding something worth listening to.

This report details how budget-strapped organizations working in the developing world are able to use open source software to accomplish computing task that would otherwise just be too expensive.

Soon we'll have far fewer excuses for not distributing the worlds most valuable information resources: libraries.

How do nonprofits grow?

People are drawn to imagery and emotions that inspire them to work for a cause.

RTPNet is North Carolina's only annual statewide conference that focuses specifically on nonprofit technology

This is a good article for nonprofit-type folks who are thinking about getting a website.

Mission-Driven nonprofits have, I think, the most to gain from blogging than any other organization or type of individual. If your organization has a site, I think you really should have a blog. There are a number of clear reasons.

If you are investing money in a website with a social justice purpose (do, please), you of course need to be thinking about getting people to your site.

I so much appreciate David Geilhufe's recent frustrations with the increasingly for-profit nature of N-TEN's national conference.

Here's a great resource for getting your email campaigns in a row

File Under: It's a blog subscription service. And a distribution service for your blog. And one of the S's stands for "Simple." And it's free. Which means, File Under: It rocks.

Websites and emails, for example, need to reflect some kind of graphical relationship with the rest of your organization. But I think they should also reflect a tone of your organization and its role in the world.

This post from Tech Soup is a good, brief introduction to the use of databases in your organization.

Evaluation is a science of promoting nonprofit organizations. Do you need to measure the effectiveness of a specific program -- or your entire organization? Well, there's an entire discipline devoted to helping you do just that.

A beta project from CompuMentor provides a platform to share and collaborate on resources around nonprofit technology consulting.

Where does your nonprofit fit?

Many Debian developers denounced the Dunc-Tank proposal.

a beautifully executed charity project that fills a very simple, traditional purpose

The Tactical Technology Collective is a nonprofit based in Amsterdam that has been doing great work distributing Free/Open Source technology to the global NGO sector.

Find a simple, stable, cheap platform for online nonprofit focus groups

I experimented with the nptech data last weekend

Recently there has been a lot of discussion among the nonprofit technology geeks about the use (and usefulness) of the tag nptech.

I've felt for a long time that education is the most important vehicle for social change. I mean, really how else does anything actually get done? You've got to have some kick ass teachers along the way, or you're gonna be a vegetable.

I believe that there is an enormous potential to do citizen journalism better on the web, and that we need the leadership of people who are willing to help clean up the mess.

During the collapse of the journalism industry, I have rarely been surprised and only occasionally truly saddend -- by a newspaper going out of business.

There is a deeply manipulative and delusional culture at work [in Silicon Valley culture], and let's be clear there is absolutely no room for it in nonprofit and humanitarian technology.