Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. Some vendors, such as MySQL, have a split model - a free license and a commercial license, for example. image posted as [link]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. And they did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Click To Play "Spread the word by copy this code and paste to a blog, bulletin, your profile or comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Is it an organizational blog or personal blog? Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, when presented with a grant description describing programs serving low-income populations, the system would often also predict that the grant was serving “People of African Descent.” Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Your email platform, for example, likely allows you to customize your messages based on: Location Topics of interest Past actions taken Other behavior history data. This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. What are your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

For example, you can make use of Optimizly as a cloud-based solution, or Smart Content as a CMS-specific approach. As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. In year one, they received a small batch of submissions, and they were terribly disappointed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

I'm doing that with people I want to keep in touch with and who I've connected with through my blog or other work. So, is your personal knowledge network like open source software or is it under lock and key? Is this another example of hold your breath, set it free, and hope that something comes good comes back?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Open source projects do get better. 3) Evolution.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. This means that when a new social media platform becomes popular, for example, the community can create an integration within a matter of days or even hours. Own the technology.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

With that in mind, we wanted to share the top ten examples of our community sharing what they know with each other from the past year. Are you using Google+ Open source vs proprietary CMS Just what is a data scientist anyway?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. And so the feedback cycle keeps going.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.". The Jane Goodall Institute's Gombe Chimpanzee Blog is a nice example of a field notes blog.). So we've created a new " Forum One Field Notes " blog to show how easy it can be. That can wait for later.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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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. For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off. For example: Does your organization provide direct services via Big Tech social media platforms?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Such is life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. Take the above example of "crowdsourced" birdwatching from Craig Newmark. I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. Evernote rocks my world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

This is a guest blog post from Dave Greenberg, on the CiviCRM Team. real-world examples of nonprofits growing and sustaining relationships using. CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. While there are lots of stats about chabots, we don’t know exactly how many nonprofits are deploying them, but we do have some great examples.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS. Switching to the open-source driver ‘nv’ immediately solved the problem!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I got some interesting answers: Ken, at the Nonprofit Consulting Blog, talks about transparency , and how it’s a big mistake not to be transparent. ’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

By deepening their commitments to sustainability, organizations across sectors have the opportunity to enact more sustainable business practices and set an example for peer organizations. Liz oversees the Salesforce.org editorial strategy and blog. .

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry. It features concept de?nitions

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. The map can be of social media conversations, for example these network maps of Twitter conversations. One example I discovered is from Andy Carvin. You can do a whole network analysis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Example: www.textmarks.com/nonprofitorgs. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub.

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