Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With a growing interest in the “AI4Good” field, Google is sharing this information to help strengthen the ecosystem of people and organizations hoping to solve some our most pressing social challenges with AI. . Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g.,

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JULY 4, 2017

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities. This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He described delicious as a “memory platform that helps you remember information with other people.&# And, that is precisely how I’ve used my delicious account that has 5902 bookmarks — as a memory platform to write blog posts. I hope he shares it. Now, I’m faced with finding a new memory platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. What has happened is basically a sea change in the landscape.

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MAY 20, 2016

It means getting organic, word-of-mouth buzz about products from people who others listen to. Every nonprofit needs to sign new people up for the email list, and entice new people to join the community. Every nonprofit needs to sign new people up for the email list, and entice new people to join the community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. She is also realistic – she describes in detail in the post what people can do, whether they are tenured or not. That’s super depressing. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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MARCH 2, 2011

The people who run the organization need to support it and the people the project is being planned for need to be expecting and anticipating the end result. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Designed for the developing world, nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox phones are meant to be a low-cost alternative to iPhones and Android phones. Check out Engadget's hands-on review of the ZTE Open C.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. goodiness. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2009

OpenStreetMap: If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps that is open source, check out OpenStreetMap.org which allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Note: It’s still in beta and you will need an invite. I have 10 invites left.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Cost can be an issue with some hardware, but often there are alternatives. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Engage people who are closest to the problem. Give voice to new and alternative actors. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?). Create a competitive marketplace that showcases a variety of ideas.

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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. Tagging offers a way for people to connect directly with works of art, to own them by labeling or naming them ??? A new proof of concept paper was just presented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

In part 2, we look at people's favorite tools. The 50-plus people who attended the recent NetSquared London Meetup all had a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite productivity tools. If you're looking for an alternative to Meltwater 's media monitoring capabilities, check out the list of PR tools on PRstack.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface. Most people (57%) also want ongoing support. All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ro 05.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Also ran in to some issues with the convention/humanization of variable names (ie Person/people table). The alternative would be to use 1.1 That’s unfortunate. 6 Ariel Arjona 11.20.08 at 7:11 pm Yeah, to have to redefine relationships on the fly to trick the framework into doing the right thing was a major downer for me.

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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. ″ (and yes, I’m subverting the dominant paradigm.) 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. I think that is a big realization that you get from freelancing.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Since the majority of people use one of five or six email providers, it is very easily to expose the person's email account and by extension other information. The implementation of IdeaScale by some government agencies creates a moderate security and privacy concern. Vote for this Idea]. Enable Single User Accounts Across All Agencies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Botsman encourages us to think in a new way about “asset utilization” because “new technologies unlock a hidden wealth of underutilized resources” and can “transform how we match people’s ‘haves’ with people’s ‘wants.’” Let us insist on what is most transformative.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. lower- quality homes), and job openings that the companies have deemed “appropriate” to their customers’ social position. Nevertheless, when the software consistently reports a mismatch, a driver can be summarily dismissed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Many people regularly post on Substack. Alternatives to Substack: Substack may not suit everyone and before you add a platform consider these alternatives: Website Content: Focus on growing and building your organization’s website for SEO and engagement first. What is Substack? in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

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