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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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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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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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. . The first step is simply to ask.

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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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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 more people who donate recordings of their voice, the more useful the system will be.

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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

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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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. He implements this new system and raises the donor retention rate for the supporters he works with by 10%.

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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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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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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

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. They tend to include other useful components like an SD card with an operating system pre-installed. Power source. 256 MB SDRAM.

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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

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.) 3 sudha 01.15.09

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

On another note, I got an email from Javier Solas (interviewed the Linux Chix on his staff last fall) from Open Institute who has been leading the Khmer OS project and building the educational technology plan for Cambodia letting me know of major project milestone: The Cambodian Education System Changes to Open Source Software and KhmerOS.

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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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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They also provide great case studies that are applicable to other nonprofits. Instead of sending a text message to sign up or get information, a caller dials a number on their phone, waits for the line to connect, and then hangs up. The format is straightforward and informative. Nobody answers but the incoming number is saved.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the limitation of lower revenues and the pressure to cut costs, this is an ideal time to innovate around your operations and systems costs while still funding programs and activities and, yes, increasing investment in donor development. Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. The city of Washington, D.C.

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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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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning. Even further, should you invest in one?

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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. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Missing Persons.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. This information was then picked up by first responders who were able to get help and to where it was needed.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether you're thinking about making some small enhancements to your organization's website or planning a complete redesign, you'll find plenty of useful information and tips from TechSoup and our global partners. Design and Multimedia. A well-designed website doesn't require a large budget and a professional design team.

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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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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.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. Rickshaw Bank is a project by the Centre for Rural Development that disrupts the existing system whereby rickshaw pullers do not earn a living wage and cannot build equity in their work. How will you scale?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Its basically about storing and retrieving information. If youve ever kept a list of information in Excel, you will be relieved to know that under the hood, even the most sophisticated database contains tables that look exactly like a simple list in Excel - with rows and columns of data. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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. Here's the background information from the press release. Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.   Please participate ??? s go and ???tweet???

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Said notes, “Her goals in participating in Service Net mirror those of the pilot itself: improve the overall system, share the data United Way collects, stop duplicating efforts and make it easier for service providers to enter information.”. Why are we all updating the same resources?” Batson said.

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