NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

Some nonprofits fashion homemade, composite solutions with the tools they have — however dated or inefficient — to avoid the large expenditure that new software often requires. Platforms and applications such as Linux, Firefox, RedHat , and Open Office are the poster children of open development. Stay tuned!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Adding video production tools to your belt can help you overcome a number of challenges that video production is faced with. Audio tools.

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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. It’s a great tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change? Brand career hiring job nonprofit open source recruiting social enterprise social entrepreneur tech4good VP of Engineering'

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. by the Organizers’ Collaborative. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. General Considerations in CMS Selection Given the mature CMS market, most tools are equipped to address client needs.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Adding video production tools to your belt can help you overcome a number of challenges that video production is faced with. Audio tools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN. Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Open source is a community-driven effort.

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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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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Collaboration Review and provide input into software specifications. Collaborate with other developers to ensure (1) we are taking the best approach in a given situation (2) we are doing things in a consistent way (3) we share information. Create technical specifications and technical designs. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Speaker: Gregory Heller, CivicActions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At that event, the Tech Against Trafficking coalition – a collaboration across several major technology companies, including Salesforce – was born. Technology is not always an appropriate tool or intervention. Technology is not always an appropriate tool or intervention.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

number of web-based tools that enable team members to coordinate and. collaboration and communication and resource organization. project leaders and team members with the tools they need, from Gantt charts to web conferencing, to coordinate the various pieces of the puzzle. collaboration. collaborative whiteboards.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. You don’t need to hear from me about the newest web tools – you have ReadWriteWeb and Mashable for that, among others.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Getting to zero hunger will require unprecedented collaboration and a multi-pronged approach that gets to the numerous causes.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Register today!

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

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

AUGUST 31, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. Women and Open Source and Identity. Female Ferocity.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Then I elaborate with my true opinion of Project: it's a great tool if you're building a bridge or a luxury hotel. Real world projects require far more agile and accessible tools. You want to use tools that your project participants can access easily, preferably ones they're already using. Related tool: the telephone.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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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. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

This Markets for Good article about the Children’s Museum of Manhattan describes how CMOM has collaborated with National Institutes of Health, providing real-time data to develop a health curriculum for young children through an unusually speedy process. Building a movement through innovative open source tools.

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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. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools.

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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. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. This is the work that matters. Want mapping?

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

To learn more about your audiences here are some useful tools and strategies you can use: User surveys Social listening Interviews. For this reason, we recommend basing your technology stack around your CRM and analytics tools. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress.

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