Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

David Wiley's keynote was on the social returns from a new venture he helped create, Flat World Knowledge. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff. Guided learning.

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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! So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. I’d like to do more of all of it. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. " Its not that there is a lack of technology vendors and support. For those of us who’d like to see organizations get better support – how do we do that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent. Disadvantages to cloud computing Depending on the vendor and the application, you are dependent on them to keep the application up and your data intact. Your data is not directly in your hands, but in the hands of a third party. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits. While you're taking advantage of the free shipping, I'd suggest also taking a look at FLOSS Manuals' Lulu store , for great manuals on free and open-source software. FLOSS books are available free online , but they're definitely printworthy.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. Check out some of my favorite resources in the nonprofit space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. These things are far from the fault of Linux. Where is Linux not a good idea?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian).

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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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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. 3 KJ 08.09.07 Be Helpful.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

This e-book from the OneVoice for Accessible ICT Coalition outlines the first measures a web developer should take towards making a site accessible. Entitled The First Seven Steps to Accessible Websites , the book answers the question: Where do I start? And it's free, to boot. A Place to Start — and What Lies Ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Allison Fine , author of the book Momentum, writes about social activism in the nonprofit sector and the implications on the ground and at the big picture level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. You can find the chapter he wrote online here which has made me more determined to obtain a copy of that book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles? Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. What do you track? 2) Crowd Creation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

From my perspective, there are four elements to a technology support process with this as a model: Assessment – where is the client – both in terms of technology knowledge, as well as in terms of what they need at the moment? Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Keisha recommends checking out the book, The Human Face Of Big Data , as a way to get a grasp on how all this new information is creating a nervous system for the humanosphere. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a great advocacy charity in that field.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Personally, I have been futzing around with learning R (a statistical/data manipulation language) and have passing knowledge of a lot of the concepts that these fellows addressed—machine learning, natural language processing, etc. But now I guess I better buy that book of his. It’s a big idea, that’s for sure, and very compelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person. Check out the Digital Hero Book Project.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Unavoidable work-related costs like gas and vehicle maintenance for Uber drivers and delivery workers are sloughed off the company books and forced onto the independent contractor. Workers are not paid for training time to master a job or for transit time between gigs.

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