Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. You can have openness and security.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now. A few days ago, Michele posted her blog’s mission statement. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I’ve always loved Excel (and, since I don’t own a copy, I hobble along with Open Office ’s pale, pale substitute.) What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Guest post by Paul Connolly. ” Paul Connolly.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. Begin by identifying what your community needs and articulate what the purpose of your wiki is. A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Ben Rattray, Change.Org's founder, describes it as - "to create an open-sourced advocacy platform that identifies and then mobilizes resources around the best ideas for how to change the country." More details on the FAQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. Penguin Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

They seem to fear losing control and having traditional hierarchies challenged in an increasingly open source and bottom up world. And many folks don't seem to understand, as the book Groundswell articulates so clearly, at the end of the day it's really all about relationships and NOT the technology tools.It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

He, like me, prefers free or open source tools and admits that Audacity did have a learning curve and it can be conquered. and he has promised to me sound smart and articulate!). He makes the call via SKPE and uses a cheap plugin called "hotrecorder" that tapes the call. does with their video interviews.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses. They just worked! We value transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. Live Blogging Conferences. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! How is it relevant to your larger mission?

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AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Articulate 360. Articulate 360 is a suite of eLearning authoring apps to align with your various authoring tasks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. It opens additional doors. 2 cheryl 04.26.07 Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

One of the things that I've found in working with women and hearing how women articulate environmental and social justice challenges is the holistic aspect of the conversation, that these issues are related and that there is no separation. We know this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He lays out some interesting concepts, things I’d been aware of, but not really studied enough to articulate. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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