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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { There are some great tips in this Wired article.

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Drupal, Joomla and Plone! Oh my!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued.

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Linux ready for the desktop?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October.

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What software freedom means to me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. I co-administered that box for a few years.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. In my small-scale “free agent” crowdfunding experiment for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, I ended up with $235 from 1,000 followers by the deadline.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s definitely not the powerhouse it was 2 years ago, but it’s far from dead. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. Think about that for a minute.

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