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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Overview

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll write a series of posts, and cover the following topics: Desktop software (OS, Office Suites, browsers, utility software, and other good stuff.). Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.).

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. In my Fall 2011 President’s Update , I mentioned PBS NewsHour’s two stories, and complete press coverage of our work is listed on our website. The year 2011 has shown in many ways that the arc of history is bending toward justice.

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Get Even More out of Your Time in DC: Events Before and After the 2011 NTC!

NTEN

CiviCRM Training Details: Date: March 16 - 17, 2011 Location: Pew DC Conference Center, 901 E St. Penguin Day DC 2011 is organized by Aspiration and PICnet. There's plenty on the calendar but we want to be sure that a few special events make it to your calendars, too: Innogive, CiviCRM Training, and Penguin Day.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

President’s Update Fall 2011 Don’t be surprised, but we’re picking up the pace of change at Benetech! All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! We are also launching a community to encourage software developers to collaborate with us to evolve and improve the Zanby codebase. We hope you will join us."

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Why WordPress is the Best Choice for your Website CMS

Byte Technology

Today nearly 75 million sites are constructed and managed on the WordPress platform—which first debuted in 2011—and there are some very good reasons why. An Open Book. Even someone with the most basic computer software knowledge can pick up the fundamentals of WordPress design quickly. Money Talks. Easy to Learn, Easy to Use.

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

There's still time to submit your nomination before October 31, 2011 for this year's Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public interest. Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. About the Prize.