Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An Open Book. One of the most laudable attributes of WordPress is that it’s an open-source CMS: there’s an entire community of users backing it up and creating thousands of plug-ins—beyond the basics that come with the starter version of the platform—that make it faster, prettier and more efficient. Money Talks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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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. with the books they need for educational success. Bookshare now has over 150,000 members and more than 125,000 books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Recently, Ryder published a book, The Bullet Journal Method , which explain it in greater detail. Book reading list is a popular BuJo collection. Last year, I used it to follow how many books I read. I wasn’t surprised to learn that I read about 10 books a year (not including work reading).

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2007

So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 96% of people who ask Spock to scan their address book do not end up inviting anyone to their trust network.

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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. These will help drive your search for new training opportunities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine? .&# What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories? Or does it mean something completely different like suggesting that people use more than just the nptech tag and to include a one-sentence description?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I came across your post searching for exactly that sort of wisdom. 6 Jill C 09.17.08 That really sums it up for me, Michelle. I am volunteer Webster for a small, low-budget nonprofit that wants to boost its web presence. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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? of a gallery case that has a “gap” in the art, includes the dimensions of the gap, and asks the public to search its online catalogue for ideas. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

In doing a Google search on the term, Harvard Business School has an ad listing: “Social Enterprise Programs for Senior Managers. It should be noted that Google has more than five million instances of websites using the phrase “social enterprise.” Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) Google Blog Search. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting. We all miss Sunrise! Web Outreach.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang.

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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. I like Search Engine Watch’s Twitter Analytics: A Beginner's Guide. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies (TechCrunch).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Several weeks later, I received an autographed copy of Doug's book in the snail mail! It is also becomes my muse and a key source of inspiration. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. That's where that the open source thinking or the connected conversations start to happen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { Hallmarks of Web 2.0 At this point, I use Web 2.0 applications every day.

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