Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. It’s a Ruby on Rails application, and that was actually kind of fun to finally get to install and play with RoR a tiny bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Experts from governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector speak out about effective policies, promising applications and innovative business models. Check out the section on blogs and wikis. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Visit the event Wiki for links to documentation, attendees bios, and links to the applications created after the weekend. We hope by the end of the weekend a number of interesting applications have been born that can be used by any charity under an open source style licence. What we hope to get from the weekend.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. And, even more specifically, I’m interested in how to leverage CiviCRM and mobile devices for a range of interesting applications. Use J2ME to write applications for mobile phones, and send the data via SMS to a central database.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. The web interface is great, as is the desktop applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The most common application of social media is for fundraising and marketing. You can add your ideas or pointers to resources here on the WeAreMedia wiki. Photo: Bread for the World. But what about using social media as part of program delivery. . Ooutreach or educational program delivery. Crowdsourcing ideas for program development.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

60) Search « Webinar: Using Email to Engage Activists, Cultivate Donors | Main | Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits » Wednesday Jul 16 2008 Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00AM | by Hatef Yamini Got ideas? Thanks again for the post. com , Inc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Available through TechSoup, Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate is a family of tools for designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. Also available through TechSoup, Shopify.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Here are some of our favorite platform and application recommendations in the TechSoup NCVS toolkit for multichannel, live, interactive, and mobile media. UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. This three part discussion series includes: Social Programs, Deep Engagement, and Getting To Scale.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2011

What cloud-based applications does your organization use? Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Tweetchat: Cloud Computing for Nonprofits Wednesday, November 2, 6 pm Pacific time ( check your time zone ) Hashtag: # npcloud. on moving your nonprofit to the cloud?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. plus $2 per user license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Just remember, Microsoft Citizenship defines a social good application as "a good or service that provides some sort of benefit to the general public and doesn’t solely exist to provide the maximum possible return to shareholders. Register the application project on the contest website. Publish the app on the Windows Store.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. link] is a climate change wiki. Pinc is using [link] 2 inspire & inform, evoke w/ built in actions other platforms do similar w/ their applications.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. Numerous applications exist, many of them free and with very simple editing capabilities, to upload smartphone videos to the Internet. Applications such as Ustream , Qik. organizations. professionals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

HootSuite is a bit pricey, but registered nonprofits can get a 20 percent discount by completing a Nonprofit Discount Application form. Windows 8) is a slightly more advanced social media sharing application that runs on Windows 8's Start Screen. Hootsuite also recently acquired Seesmic , another social media manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Andy Roberts, who facilitates the wiki on wiki facilitation, points me to Wikipatterns. He describes it as: This was quite an exciting discovery, a group of people trying to put together a pattern language about wiki adoption. Anti Adoption All Wiki All The Time. Each one is given a description and technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The applications go beyond secondary teaching and can be applied within organizations to transform them into learning organizations. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning. ” Plus many more provocative questions.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

When we begin a new deployment of our software applications at an organization, we always ask the users "How will you know if this project was a success or not?" The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. What would a stairstep model for adoption of the wiki look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2008

J oin Cisco for a fascinating 60-minute video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm. Get valuable insights and practical game plans from the thought leaders in Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that? That is everyone jump in an edit in real time or do we conceptualize it like a wiki? It feels like a visual wiki to me. so are any of the roles/patterns in wiki appropriate to port over there?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Does the organization have a coherent strategy for application support and training? Resources: Further information and relevant links are at the Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission wiki: [link]. A plan answers these questions: how will the actions laid out in the plan support the mission and organizational strategic plan?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Career pages , located within Company pages, give organizations the ability to not only post job openings but to give prospective job applicants some insight into the organization’s culture and values. Nonprofit Social Media Wiki: LinkedIn. LinkedIn Nonprofit Solutions (Presentation).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). Conference attendees will be asked to download and join the Emergency Data Society. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

The focus of the contest, as stated by USAID, was: Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. And will recognize the winners at a ceremony Thursday January 8th, 3-5 PM in DC.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. We are going to see tools developed that provide a space to interact with your contacts and content in new ways.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Broadcom BCM2835 SoC full HD multimedia applications processor. 700-MHz Low Power ARM1176JZ-F Applications Processor. Luckily, like the Pi itself, they're pretty affordable too. 256 MB SDRAM. 512 MB SDRAM.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2013

To apply, simply complete and submit a brief online application. ” Additional Resources: Autodesk Wiki Help website – free product help center. You’ll be asked to clearly demonstrate that the use of Autodesk software will increase the impact of your ideas and innovations. Autodesk’s Philanthropy Plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

Yesterday, I taught a workshop at BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) as part of their Nonprofit Institute for New Media Applications. The wiki for the workshop is here. I'm in the Bay Area for the BlogHer conference which starts today. When I entered te office space, I was greeted by Wendy Levy's dog, who is one of the official greeters!

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