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Open source your Open Social Apps?

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested?

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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

See if they have good documentation. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. How busy is it?

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What are learning platforms?

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Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What can an organization use a LMS for? Well, that depends of course, on the organization. Well, that depends of course, on the organization. There are both proprietary and open source LMS.

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Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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What is cloud computing?

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So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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My Theory of Practice

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The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop). Be Helpful.

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Linux Desktop Migration

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But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) A large chunk (the majority?) Be Helpful.

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