The Big Secret to Making Your NonProfit Events Successful with Social Media

May 14, 2012

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According to a recent survey by Constant Contact, 77% of event marketers from small businesses and nonprofit organizations use social media as a complement to their event marketing.  The survey cited the top 2 reasons for using social media in [...]

Grow Members and Donors with Photo Albums | Tendenci Feature Focus

May 7, 2012

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A Photograph is Worth a Thousand Words We’ve all heard the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”, and this couldn’t be more applicable when we are talking about your nonprofit organization’s website. Visual storytelling is key to engaging [...]

Tendenci Admin Navigation Gets a New Look Plus Learn When to Upgrade Your Website

May 1, 2012

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We’ve been busy little Web Bees the past week and you’ll find a bunch of new features and updates to your Tendenci websites.  To highlight a few of our recent updates: updated custom forms with the ability to simply drag [...]

Tendenci Feature Focus – Nonprofit Storytelling with the Videos Plugin

April 24, 2012

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been creating and uploading new training videos to demonstrate how to use the newest version of our open source CMS software. You can find these videos on our website in the Tendenci Video Gallery. [...]

Open Source Technology from the NonProfit Point of View – Houston NetSquared’s April Topic

April 12, 2012

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On Tuesday, I had the honor of co-hosting this month’s Houston NetSquared meetup featuring Jeff D. Frey, the Web services manager in Rice University’s IT Department.  Jeff’s role at Rice is to help all the different departments within the university as [...]

Thanks to the programming giants who walked before us

April 4, 2012

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Giants. Giants I tell you. Yes, I’m excited about Tendenci going open source. But first – THANK YOU to the giants who walked before us to make this possible. As a programmer, granted I haven’t been in the code much [...]

To Our Clients: We Love You! (And with Open Source We Love You More!)

April 3, 2012

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To our Tendenci clients – Today, we released the Tendenci CMS open source (view the Tendenci GitHub Repository here). Tendenci CMS, or Content Management System, is the software that powers your website. We value you, and all our clients, tremendously [...]

Tendenci Helps Non-Profits Profit With Revenue Generating Tools and Advice

March 28, 2012

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Could Your NonProfit Organization Use a Little Extra Dough? Ok – that is a trick question because of course you’d love to earn more this year for your nonprofit or association!  I’m going to share a secret and give you [...]

SXSW 2012 Surprises | O/S Tendenci, Mobile Kills Privacy, Space Gets Interactive

March 22, 2012

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Tendenci Heads to SXSW Interactive 2012 to Announce Open Source Plans If you haven’t yet heard the exciting news, Tendenci announced plans for an open source version of our CMS for nonprofit websites at SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, Texas. [...]

Tendenci, the NPO CMS website software, is going open source thanks to Matt and Dries

March 16, 2012

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UPDATE 4/3/2012: The Tendenci Open Source Download is available on GitHub here. Also view Instructions on Hosting Requirements ============================ We are making Tendenci open source. Yes really. Official Tendenci Open Source Press Release here. So what is Tendenci? Tendenci is an Open Source [...]