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“You Invent. We Fund it.” That is the promise of the Knight News Challenge, the innovation contest that “aims to advance the future of news by funding new ways to digitally inform communities.” This year, the Knight Foundation is giving away as much as $5 million for fantastic ideas that use open-source technology to distribute news…

CiviCRM offers a function to check for duplicate contacts either manually, or on user submission.  Duplicate matching is very useful for preventing duplicate records from being created when you allow anonymous users to register for events, or make donations.  Without it, ever time an anonymous user did one of those two things, you would get…

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is a pretty amazing event for nonprofit staff people, consultants and thought leaders working in that sector. The NTC is growing at a pretty strong clip, last year’s conference had over 1300 technologists and nonprofit staffers. The 2011 NTC, which promises to be even bigger will be held in Washington…

I’m really excited to announce that I will be running two CiviCRM user trainings in September and October.  Back in March and April I was involved in two similar trainings, one with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM at the NTC, and the other during the workshop day before DrupalCon in San Francisco.  The feedback from both…

We often hear the question, “What email service provider do you recommend?” from clients, prospective clients, or even just friends.  For those using CiviCRM we recommend using the built in CiviMail in conjunction with an SMTP service like CiviSMTP to handle deliverability issues.  But for those not using CiviCRM the answer is always a tricky…

A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money.  She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP.  This being just one reason of many to move your money from…

Idealware just released a report on their survey of nearly 500 nonprofit professionals regarding their use of social media and their perceptions of the efficacy of various social media channels.

Last week I wrote about some recent press coverage for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new website for the Human Origins Program and the related new exhibit in Washington, DC.

The Smithsonian Institution’s new website for the Human Origins Program is featured on the Voice Of America website as Website Of The Week.  The site, which launched in March to coincide with opening of the David H.

So read the headline of a New York Time’s article a few weeks back, you probably saw some coverage of the dizzying slide showing linkages between various constituencies in Afganistan.  Without going any further into that slide, or the article about it and the relationship of PowerPoint and military strategy, I’d like to highlight some…