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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact. We’re excited to collaborate with you!

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Also, ensure that your web design partner’s working style matches your team’s to facilitate a smooth, effective collaboration. Submit a request for proposal (RFP).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Best Free Project Management Software for Nonprofits Project management software is specialized productivity software that makes it easier for teams to collaborate on projects, set deadlines, and keep their fellow team members up to date on the status of different tasks. transaction fee per donation.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. I love the collaboration features. And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???t

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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. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The process took us longer than we anticipated, but that is due in large part to the great things we’ve been able to achieve from the collaboration between the technology and the analytical sides of our work. During that time, HRDAG has also grown to a place where it can be self-sustaining.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Maintain and develop our data deduplication (entity resolution) framework written in python and Java.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

collaboration and communication and resource organization. It integrates across Google Apps , a nice bonus for users who are already using Google Mail, Documents. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms. The technology itself is advancing, opening up more possibilities for even smarter applications.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. We rely on open source tools for information exchange and development tools, as appropriate.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases. SocialText.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases. SocialText.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. The other arm is learning. I can’t do what I do without being a technology expert. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

We've been taught that good design is about documentation, smart development is about process, and effective management is about control. In the last five years we've witnessed Open Source ideas transform software and content, converting the meekest of us into public contributors. What if all our professional training is wrong?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This role is more about providing London's non-profit sector with a for ICT issues and getting policy-makers and funders to recognise that investing in the ICT of non-profit organisations can actually achieve lots of positives - transforming organisations to work smarter and better, better collaboration and information sharing, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. It's an open source free web meeting service. A Few Self-Financed Learning Journeys Sam Mayfield has launched a new blog called Sam Land to raise money for and document his trip to Ghana in November.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. These documented 5,245 actions taking place in 181 countries. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. For file sharing we use Box.net.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. Our NetSquared leaders are currently holding free events in 24 countries and meet with their local TechSoup partners to collaborate on how to best support nonprofits in their country.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. We use Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. These documented 5,245 actions taking place in 181 countries. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. For file sharing we use Box.net.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. Apple provides detailed documentation for podcasters and a FAQ to help you get started. I count on it taking about an hour of editing for every 10-15 minutes of audio content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

Secure tools to document human rights violations, such as those developed by Benetech’s Human Rights Program, have become critically important in efforts to pursue reform and seek justice—and in keeping human rights defenders safe. This post originally appeared on the new Benetech''s Blog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

It will also integrate with OneDrive and Sharepoint Online for document storage. Since the project launch, the BRIDGE project has become a collaborative that includes the Foundation Center, Global Giving , GuideStar , and yours truly, TechSoup Global. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source."

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

But other models exist -- namely implementing, investing, and collaborating in open source software. All software costs money and/or time to implement, whether it be proprietary, software-as-a-service, or open source. It takes into consideration the philosophical values of open source (or open data).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We are nearing completion of our assessment of Darfur-related NGOs and their qualitative documentation on human rights abuses. We've just launched Miradi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. We had several phone calls and collaborated using a google document to capture notes and tasks.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

So many museums suffer from departmental siloing, deluges of all-staff emails, the painful jujitsu required to collate seven versions of the same document. The document will always available in its most recent version on the Web, and you can easily add new fields as needed by your institution. the list goes on. I like Wik.is

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Getting Started Guide as a first step and review other help documents as needed. Dutch Nonprofits Collaborate With Del.icio.us. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki.

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