Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media. Do you have advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Do you read the summaries? Leave a comment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { Mitchell 04.08.07 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Robin Good's site has published a summary of a report by Australian Flexible Learning Framework called " Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals and Organizations " Reading the live blogging from the PDF Conference and twittering is making a lot of us wish we were there. Jon's comments on plone comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. million nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems This is an excerpt from the 60-page independent Idealware report that provides a summary of what open source content management systems are, what features are often useful to nonprofits, and a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems This is an excerpt from the 60-page independent Idealware report that provides a summary of what open source content management systems are, what features are often useful to nonprofits, and a detailed comparison of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Can import other sources well. Show notes - want to make a summary of your show for both itunes, etc. Sometimes the ambient noise is good. You can also use web cams for a video podcast.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Regulations.gov and OpenRegulations : Regulations.gov is your one-stop website to find, view, and comment on Federal regulations and other Federal actions. Receive monthly updates 2 Comments | by Share Article in Conferences , Technology Reader Comments (2) Tracy. This is a great recap.

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