Service Outage Notification
Topics: Tech
Meyer Memorial Trust’s website and web-based grant application system (GrantIS) will be unavailable during the evening of Monday, January 30th, 2012 beginning at approximately 7pm. This outage will last approximately 2 hours. During this time, MMT will be changing the IP addresses of these servers. Some customers may not be able to reach those services after the outage due to domain name data caching and record propagation delay.
RIP DMR
MMT's Technical Operations Manager Aaron Nelson writes about a loss to the world's technical community he finds greater than the loss of Steve Jobs. Yes, our geeks blog too!
GrantIS: MMT's Application Software
Many people have asked me about Meyer Memorial Trust's GrantIS software – a database and online application system that we designed to process grant requests and awards. They want to know the what/when/why/how details and what we learned along the way.
A Plethora of Resources for Nonprofits
Looking for great tools to help your organization improve efficiency and productivity or just make your life easier? Here's a list of a range of great tools that you never knew you needed.
Drupal Administration Recipe
Topics: CMS | Drupal | help | Nonprofit | nptech | open source | philanthropy | plan | tech | Tech Tips
Do you like our website? Do you want to build one with some of its features? Now you can. In the spirit of openness and sharing, we're offering the full recipe of all the Drupal modules and themes we used, the lessons we learned and some additional pointers. Take it from here!
A Super Useful, Simple to Use, Small CRM For Your Gmail
Topics: Tech Tips
Ever get an email from someone who seems to have met you to you, but
that you don't remember and that you wanted a little reminder about? Or
wanted to know more about someone you know only peripherally? Or want to
have a simple and organized way to track notes about these people? You might want to try Rapportive.
Ideas4Oregon and UserVoice
Topics: Tech Tips
By now, most of you have seen our ideas4oregon campaign (you can read the original announcement) and some of you might be wondering about the tools we
used to run the campaign. I thought I'd outline what we did, for those who are interested.
The Story and Recipe of This Website
Many people and organizations have asked us, why did we use Drupal to build this site and was it the right tool? As the one who advised it and did the bulk of the technical work, I thought I'd make that the subject of my first MMT Blog entry. Right from the beginning of the project to rebuild our site, we knew we wanted to use open source and we knew we wanted to share what we'd learned with other nonprofits and, well, everyone. We were hopeful that the lessons we learned and our shared thinking and ideas would be useful to others. So here follows our rationale.
Getting Geosocial- The Internet of Real Places
Topics: Tech
Geosocial Netowrking, or "lo-so" (location-social) networking, has been all the rage of late.
Nonprofits in the Cloud
Gartner reported Earlier this week that "Cloud Computing is the number one technological area you can’t afford to ignore." So what is cloud computing exactly?
