Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 I hope this will help in understanding how it works. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things. Our support of groups advancing LGBTI rights is opening up new opportunities for helping many more such groups around the world. HRP members produced scientifically sound analysis that is advancing the process of legal justice in Guatemala.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. Be Helpful. To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. .

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

By civic infrastructure we mean online services which: -help people and government understand and address important social problems; -will be a platform to support or catalyze the innovative work of others to address these problems; -will provide benefits very broadly ? Below I outline Project #1 - the "Global Development Commons".

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JUNE 22, 2009

He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. Lots of organization could use help in developing more video assets and we say, great!

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I explained how technology and social media are playing a leading role in innovation in the aid sector and helping to bring relief to earthquake victims in Haiti. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

To reference earlier points in the hype curve, xAPI is what the ACCME should be using to analyze the aggregate educational value of CME activities. Cutting back on the administrative headache of tracking credits for certificants is an imperative for the eLearning industry.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. EP+your state if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.  

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Small individual efforts aggregate into unique pathways through a complex context. Help others find this object??? A new proof of concept paper was just presented.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Third Place: $10,000. First Place: $25,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself. " So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. it will come I'm sure! If I have a ???eureka???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here. Lucy has more coverage on her blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Probably like many of you, I feel like a time traveler when I’m asked constantly about what machine learning and blockchain can do for the communities we want to help, and the social enterprises that serve them. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. Well, thats exactly where APIs can be helpful. With Open, nonprofits can see what people are doing, how often and how long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Finally an interesting question over at Netsquared from Cauzoo, " Bells and Whistles, Do They Help you Get Heard ?" " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

So the question arises: how can we use technology to help social entrepreneurs collect and use their data more effectively and securely? Because its all open source, they could then engage any technology group of their choice to customize it to their particular needs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2017

Have you thought about how data can help glean insights that support your mission? Open-Source Insights and Dataset. Donation Insights uses Mastercard's anonymized and aggregated transaction data to offer a report and a dataset. Bridging the Information Gap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. A recently launched set of ‘microtasking’ apps will help relief organizations deal with the information overload. Data Mapping and Visualization. MicroMappers. Image: IBM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project. Image: NetSquared.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. Craigslist can help. 35 The Open Food Network, an international platform cooperative, has a focus on helping local farmers connect to customers with sales of their organic harvest.

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