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! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

The Accelevents Studio connects with live streaming solutions (such as Lightstream, Streamyard, ReStream, and Open Broadcaster Software) through RTMP capabilities. . RTMP, at a glance, transmits video files from an encoder to an online hosting platform. . Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Some of the biggest reasons to replace computers is not as much the hardware failure issues, but software bloat and cruft, and planned obsolescence. Of course, there are caviats. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

I wanted to hear more about the Impact Labs experience and product directly from our cohort, so I sat down with Clayton Aldern, Senior Data Reporter at Grist , to get his take on the crisis we’re facing, the needs surrounding it, and the solution he and the cohort designed. Clayton Aldern leads data journalism at Grist. Clayton Aldern.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Even if not stolen I need to be concerned with having devices and data held up at customs for " investigation." When you are traveling and carry with you multiple devices containing potentially sensitive data, expect full well that they will be misplaced/stolen/damaged during transport. Software encryption is your friend.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. Open source projects do get better. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. It might be worth it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Currently, you can manually enter data into Martus, or import data after formatting it into XML. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. 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!) Organizational data is, by definition, far less personal than the information an individual might trust to the site, so you’re much less likely to want to keep it private.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I didn’t get so far into coding the markup, but I had decided that I’d follow MediaWiki’s syntax, since it was the most popular wiki software. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. 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 This was to appease the European Commission.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

c) TechSoup should stick to its knitting of being an opinion-free provider of donated and low-cost software and hardware and not offer opinions on social and political issues. When I founded CompuMentor (which became TechSoup) in 1987, I had to file articles of incorporation that would legally bind the organization.

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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

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! This is my dilemma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? Of course, like all open source software, it is “free as in kittens&# – but this particular kitten is pretty grown up, and already spayed and litter trained. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

A password manager is software you can download to help you organize (read: memorize) your passwords and PIN codes. The way it works is that the password management software has a local database or a file that holds the encrypted password data for secure log-in onto computers, networks, web sites and application data files.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I’ve always loved Excel (and, since I don’t own a copy, I hobble along with Open Office ’s pale, pale substitute.) I’ve thought that it was truly one of the best pieces of software ever written. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. Wordpress now uses dashes instead of underscores, so that’s something you don’t have to worry about. That’s all. You don’t have to worry about using mod_rewrite at all. Getting the varied blogrolls and badges, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. You can see the software interface and sign up for a free 1 on 1 trial or a full featured demonstration free as well. I’m hoping to test it out soon, as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right? Debian comes to the rescue.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. they make digital soundboards that plug straight into your computer and record with various software options. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. Can import other sources well.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Chrome hasn't officially been released to public yet, but recently Google officially made the operating system open-source. For the brave among us, TechCrunch has provided step-by-step instructions for downloading a virtual machine image via file-sharing sites so you can run it. All the data in Chrome OS is in the cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. In fact that’s how the baked forms and scaffolding show this data. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To bring your virtual event to life and provide an experience that’s just as enriching as an in-person one, you need the right fundraising event software. In this guide, we’ll dive into the different types of fundraising event software that nonprofit leaders have successfully leveraged for virtual events. Let’s dive in!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

To start, it's helpful to determine how your data might be at risk, who might want to intercept your data, and how you can more strategically defend yourself. Good online security habits can go a long way toward protecting your privacy and data. OpenPGP is an open-source, end-to-end email encryption technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. 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. Cloud backup services are oriented to emergency data recovery.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

USAID Should do More to Require their Contractors to Share Data. USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. Many contractors avoid sharing this raw data for competitive reasons. Vote for this Idea]. Department of Defense.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vizify scans your Twitter account to find your most retweeted tweets, most influencial and engagaged followers, and the most common words associated with your Twitter account and then packages the data into a Twitter video that you can share with staff and followers. VinePeek :: vinepeek.com. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

" Our internal IT staffs will struggle to integrate them into organizational email, security, and data collection. This will greatly increase the amount of data that will be collected on us and our surroundings. In 2012, "Big Data" became an IT buzzword right up there with cloud computing. for some time now.

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