Highlights from the NTEN 09 Conference in San Francisco

api, calais, Clay Shirky, CRM, drupal, idealware, NTEN, OpenPublish, plone

Jeff:

Last week I traveled to San Francisco for the NTEN NTC09 conference. I met some great people, learned a lot about what non-profits are doing and thinking about web technology these days, and chatted it up with fellow open source champions in the Drupal, Plone and Joomla communities. I concluded my visit with a presentation to the San Fransico Semantic Web Group and the Drupal Users Group on our work with Open Calais and the development of the OpenPublish tool.

Posted 05/11/2009 - 20:32

Open Source vs. Vendor-Provided Software: Comparing Them Side by Side

501(c)3, apache, civicrm, CMS, drupal, Firefox, idealware, joomla, linux, non-profit, open source, OSS, plone, SugarCRM, vendor-provided, Wordpress

Jeff:

choose_path.gifOpen source software applications are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to vendor provided commercial software. Jeff Walpole explores the differences between these types of software, and the pros and cons of each alternative in a new article written for Idealware, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits. Read and download the full article from the Idealware website.

Posted 11/18/2008 - 10:55

In Search of..Comparing Popularity using Google Insights

CMS, drupal, Google Insights, Graphing, joomla, OSS, plone, Web Traffic

Jeff:

Legend.png Have you tried using Google Insights yet to establish a trend in popularity for a particular search term? By allowing you to see the relative volume of searches made over any period of time (which you can define) for any number of search terms you care to compare, you can really do some cool trending analysis.

Posted 09/17/2008 - 07:40