Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

Optimizing your content with personalization allows for audiences to interact with the most applicable content for them, thus creating a better, more engaging user experience. Optimizing website content requires analyzing the hierarchy of information on a platform to improve website traffic and outreach. Administration. Fulfillment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One solution would be selected to receive technical development leadership and guidance toward application and organizational sustainability. Making Mifos more transparent by empowering staff to more easily use client information for document generation and reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources. Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To manage requests, WFP developed a Service Delivery Control Tower powered in part by Tableau Software where they could view, analyze and visualize real-time data from a variety of sources, helping inform decision-making and coordinate rapid response. Slack allows you to automate workflow for common processes in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Databases and applications will be developed directly in Khmer, with easy, standard ways to handle names and data. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

The co-located conferences CommunityOne West and JavaOne are shaping up to be a great opportunity for techies for good to get some information, inspiration, and maybe even some hands-on training at these FREE events in San Francisco next month. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools. Register today!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Privacy protections that ensure your doctor treats your information securely were mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Yet, when humanitarian and social justice workers venture into the developing world to gather sensitive information, elementary privacy protections are often neglected.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Further, funders disincentivize risk when they require lengthy applications and reports that may not always showcase reality or the organization’s ability to create impact. The information is often shared and received by another funder as an appreciated heads-up. I can guess this happens in every community, and it is frightening.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

RTMP works with a simple protocol request, including the client sending the necessary coded information to the server to let them know about the RTMP protocol, the time stamp, and all the essential data. OBS is an application-based program. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program).

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

I love the way they put it on their award information site: Good deeds do get rewarded! The application deadline for this year’s prize: March 2nd, 2009. "The Pizzigati Prize aims to help inspire open source developers who want to make a difference in the world to create technology solutions tailored to the needs of nonprofits."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. distribution that is currently being translated into Khmer language.

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Open Source Cambodia Software Open 50

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. The internet is not new.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The benefits of learning more information specific to the nonprofit sector speak for themselves. Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

While the exact details of your organization’s security policy may differ based on your line of work and IT resources, there are some things that everyone can do to protect confidential information. These guidelines can also inform the development of your nonprofit’s security policy, if you do not have one already. See Tip #11 ).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Project Common Voice is a Mozilla effort to build an open-source voice recognition engine that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web. The following are a couple we think you might find intriguing and useful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

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. Information about devices that support image descriptions can be found at the DIAGRAM website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I’m quite excited to participate in The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development Conference in London, UK, put on by Indigo Trust , Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. Focus on why, not if, something works. “New is Better&#.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

One great way is to guide your staff through new information using a virtual training course. When you set predefined learning goals, your staff members won’t be left to fend for themselves to find the information on their own. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” Self-paced learning.

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Tech Soup

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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Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving. This custom-built Drupal site started accepting nonprofit applications immediately. Achieve launched phase one of the new. Great Give.

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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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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 23, 2006

: successful high tech entrepreneur turning to the social applications of information technology. They have a large array of IT projects focused on the Spanish speaking NGO world.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

People who reading content on their smartphones or tablets will not be consuming text heavy information – it has to brief text and visual or videos. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The hub has lots of helpful information on understanding Linux and how to write code for it in popular languages like C#, Java, JavaScript (via Node.js), PHP, Python, and more. Broadcom BCM2835 SoC full HD multimedia applications processor. 700-MHz Low Power ARM1176JZ-F Applications Processor. Power source. 256 MB SDRAM.

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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. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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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

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Derrick Jones. VP of IT, NAACP.

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