Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. at 7:28 am There is now an open source competitor to Quickbooks. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

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. In fact, that is far from the case.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. On the one hand, it’s important to kep looking ahead to know what’s coming, and build systems and processes for our nonprofits that will still be relevant next year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Examples from Haiti.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Based in the U.K.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 2 admin 10.02.07 at 9:53 am lol! .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. In that regard, we recently got terrific news about our Martus project. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. and Catherine T.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices. There is no question that you will get out of twitter what you give. And so what on earth does that really mean?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. Or whatever.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. That dog won’t hunt.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. There’s some interesting news and plenty of free things this month. ” If the nodes on a graph thing is a bit baffling, I like CITEworld’s coverage on this news.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. Thats because to-date, the major constituent relationship management databases didnt have open platform APIs. But widgets are just the beginning.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, it’s a great place to be. Twitter data: An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day. Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

(Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?) " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The corporate sector have adopted it. Every local news station showed up. News coverage is a major driver of giving. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. You need to get past the information overload and information clutter. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Here’s the bad news: This is not a step that can be avoided! Now for the goods news: We’re to help!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

This President’s Update isn’t about our latest news, not about our newest projects or accomplishments. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. They just worked!

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. Twitter data: An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day. Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

I have incredible news: Bookshare.org recently won a $32 million competition. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Regular Beneblog readers will know most of this, but it's always handy to pull it together all in one place. We've just launched Miradi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

This tool could come in handy for those nonprofits that respond to crisis situations and accidently send out tweets based on incorrect news reports. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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