Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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JUNE 8, 2021

NTEN is proud to be the new steward of The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , elevating and celebrating open source development for social impact work. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Open Source for Social Impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. for geeks is APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. Before you sign up, read the privacy policy carefully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. If you're coming to NTEN's NTC Conference next month, you can experience this technology first-hand.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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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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MAY 4, 2009

Flickr Photo: ann.a.liese The NTEN Award is given each year to a person who lives the values of our community. At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. NTEN Member John Merritt, from the YMCA of San Diego County , embodies all of these ideals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

" Duh: the NTEN community! Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. > They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Open source. Open Source – API. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. Fundraising 2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Unlike credit card companies, airlines or any number of other consumer-oriented businesses, nonprofits today still depend largely on employees to manually integrate all information about each constituent for marketing purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Reports, Conferences, and Webinars The Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the "Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. Online Web Applications and Nonprofit Software. Jon Stahl found a nifty online slide show web application.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. On the high end, Adobe Audition offers professional level audio editing tools, but for most podcasts, comparable quality can be achieved with the cheaper applications.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

It allows you to input some basic information about your organization and will provide you with a policy to guide initial usage. In September 2012, Jason led a team to create Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text message reminders. The framework often yields useful considerations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! We like what the delicious mirror API (named Mirrord) can do in porting existing applications, which is happening and documented on our blog. 3 Beth 09.27.06 So, is there a bookmarklet that lets you bookmark to both delicious and magnolia with out going through two steps? Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. " suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. Here's another article from Information Week to add to the list. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. It is a web-based software application where you can record your screen online and upload and share quick screen casts created on the fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

DevelopmentSeed blog posted back in October some screenshots of the Facebook application created to Help End Poverty as part of the UN Millennium Campaign outreach to Facebook community. If you're curious about what other Facebook applications are being used by nonprofits, check out this top 12 list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As part of 14LCS, we at NTEN were excited to recognize a few individuals and organizations who have gone above and beyond to push the limits, redefine the way we approach social impact, and help chart a course for all of us to follow. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Flickr: HeathBrandon Even in a world where information overload is the norm, NTEN Members know how to get the word out – and even discuss how they curate information. Through October 31st, The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Tides is pleased to announce that applications and nominations for the 2014 Pizzigati Prize are now being accepted. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati , an early advocate of open source computing. How to Apply The Pizzigati Prize welcomes applications from—and nominations for—single individuals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

One note, though – the increasing number of new web applications that are interfacing with google, meaning that there are companies out there with my google password, is a bit troubling. We use that information only to connect TimeBridge to Google. There is a “feedback&# link at the top of every TimeBridge application page.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Presumably, a loan application process means that loans are given to hard-working people.

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