NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That's 5 years work at a full-time job! They've aggregated over 3,500 volunteer opportunities, so there's almost certainly something out there to match your skills set. Mozilla Service Week kicks off today and runs through September 21st. To date, more than 10,000 volunteer hours have been promised. Do it your way!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I’m someone who has, since day one, tried my damnedest (and succeeded 96% of the time) to only say by email, or put up, what I would say in a room full of people. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. Our support of groups advancing LGBTI rights is opening up new opportunities for helping many more such groups around the world.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. In our view these ? such as is done by the UN's ReliefWeb and others. evangelize.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. If you are just building your first set of online courses and implementing your first (traditional) LMS, it’s probably not the time to develop a 12-tiered system of subscription packages.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

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. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. When the east coast camps took an evening rest, the west coast, and international camps took over.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. a mechanism for turning private judgments into a collective decision).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. At the time of writing, nearly 1300 reports had been placed via SMS, and reports are still coming in. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Thank you Ruby and Brian (and congratulations on your upcoming open source wedding ! & aggregation. Wonder if they plan to put their blog logos on the napkins?). Definition. Person/Authenticity. Community/Dialog. Organization/newest. first, discoverable archive. Database/syndication. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Is failure to bring ID to the polls thwarting first-time voters in Indianapolis? In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

But give it time. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change. link] [link].

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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. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism.

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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

t tell you how many times I???ve " So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. And then we take a time machine and journey into the past – no wait! Competing nonprofits, competing for-profits and sort of competing donors will need to come together, build trust, and create open solutions. It’s just the present day social good sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

As this sensitive data is increasingly stored for long periods of time, we also need to worry about misuse in the future. The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently.

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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. Its really affordable when you consider the savings in time. FL: What else can we expect to see as a result of Convios Open initiative?

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2017

As for individual giving, there is data, but it is rarely real-time and granular enough to see how giving changes throughout the year. Open-Source Insights and Dataset. Donation Insights uses Mastercard's anonymized and aggregated transaction data to offer a report and a dataset.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. 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.) I like it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

From the beginning of human time, women and girls in poor countries traditionally carry water in heavy jugs on their heads for long distances for their families. Over time, this wears down the spine and causes disabilities. Disconnect is open source software that was named Lifehacker’s best anti-tracking extension last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Allan Benamer put together an NpTech version of Digg, using open source software called Pligg combined with a Yahoo Pipe of the Nptech feed.

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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 person living in European Renaissance times was exposed to about the same amount of data in a lifetime as we are in a day. This year, 3.3 zettabytes. will be analyzed. Image: IBM.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

This is true for operations teams, which often include part-time staff who don't intersect, as well as for development teams, which often involve outside contractors or remote staff. create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. I like Wik.is

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. Worldle :: wordle.net.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks?

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