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NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open
Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides
them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and
relevant materials to support this.

This report provides and overview of Content Management Systems (CMS) designed to support non-profit organizations. It offers insights on the definition of a content management system, outlines how they are valuable for a non-profit organization, and what criteria to consider when purchasing and implementing a Content Management System. Further, it details how to efficiently develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) and how to calculate a budget for your project. Lastly, it lists the vendors to consider when purchasing a CMS.

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Learn about marketing and content optimization and read web analytics tips from industry experts at Conversion University, the Google Analytics companion site.

Google Analytics - Conversion University

Here is a handy and inexpensive ($8/mo for 4GB) of online shared space. 

Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or with any modern web browser.

Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com

The featured articles in the August 28th issue of Monday Developments, a publication of InterAction, are about using art, media and technology to promote international development. Their online resource page is full of links to related books, web sites, reports and articles about blogging, podcasting, RSS feeds, tagging, mobile advocacy and wikis (including some links to NetSquared and Tech Soup!). You can download the whole issue by clicking here.

Using Art, Media and Technology to Promote International Development | NetSquared

People have been trying to harnass the power of the successful viral marketing campaign by encouraging people to spread the message themselves. This technique was served to great effect for environmental causes with the (anti) Chevy Tahoe campaign, which generated a lot of buzz to the effect that environmentalists had turned Chevy’s marketing on itself. However, it’s an open question as to who took advantage of whom.

NetSquared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

Communities around the world are implementing or considering the creation of free or low cost wireless internet systems so that their citizens can go online in any location. The balance between public and private infrastructure is being worked out and debated.

NetSquared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

The Internet and ICT have increasingly become platforms for commerce, and after the dot com bust, viable Internet and ICT-based business models have arisen. For example, Google has achieved an enormous market capitalization due to its advertising-based business model. oogle ads have also benefited many web site publishers, especially in the developing world where ad commissions stretch further. At the other end of the scale, sales of ring tones have been a surprising success.

NetSquared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

Opportunities for information and web-based human rights and social justice work are available like never before - but how can activists take advantage of this changing world of new communications technologies?

Our challenge is to build an architecture of participation, to grow activism and involvement and to allow people to speak for themselves. The prize is an empowered engagement that could change our relationship with our members & supporters. The risk is that, despite the tools, people won’t take part, or that by taking part they will put themselves at risk. We need to recognise where we are being naive about the users themselves or naive about the determination of corporations & governments to control them.

NetSquared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

In thinking through the structure and design of my presentation at the ACM NE Conference this fall,  I came across this article that talks about the uses of CMS in social contexts.  The idea of looking at a shift from product to process seems very important in looking at the evolution of community media space:

Why is it then that the term CMS alone would not suffice? The word “content” places much emphasis on the product over process; it fails to emphasize the social use of CMS’s, a mislabeling which places too much emphasis on the content itself at the expense of the communication and collaboration the better of these systems implement. In order to better understand how CMS’s are being influenced by the precepts of social software and their role in creating social networks online, this presentation will

* explore Drupal’s social software features,
* narrate its genesis as software serving a community
* explain the influence of the community itself on Drupal development and the software’s influence on the community that creates and uses it.

It’s about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems | Kairosnews