Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Check out the wiki. That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

The events challenged participants to brainstorm and code mash-ups of WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database, with other web services. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. " More Hackathon Resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit earlier this week. opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members' names. WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Wiki How piece is very similar but has good clear pictures. They have an extensive database with rarer manufactures like Huawei, Onida, Orion, Spice etc. ” Preston Gralla’s piece provides the general methods used to clear Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. I've been checking the group wiki every few days to see how the effort is going, and it's coming along rapidly. It's a glimpse into the future of the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. New (To Me) Nonprofit Tech Blogs. Convio or Causes?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Have questions about data or performance measurement you want to see answered during the TweetChat? Tweet them to @TechSoup and include the hashtag #npdata. Never participated in a TweetChat before? We look forward to seeing you there!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I don't often see SOAP listed among the "emerging web technologies" discussed on non-profit tech sites, but it has definitely arrived. XML webservices allow complex business logic to be placed in a middle tier between the database and the browser. But these tools store their own data - they don't talk to your organization's database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. The old fashioned form of integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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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. Non-Profit Tech Blog. See for yourself how affordable and easy it is to use: - Take a tour! Effective communication â??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. And, to make it more daunting, I'm hardly a database expert. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. While we provide the service free for only 5 people, we also provide free recording option. Every time you record the meeting, the recordings will be stored in your “MyPage.” Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. that are simple, low-tech, and immediate. Consider the lowly post-it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08 You have to pay to use their corporate wiki software “Confluence&# , but they bundle the source code with the licence so you can customise (and improve) the software yourself. 3 AJ 07.16.08 4 Dan Knauss 07.17.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. One piece we did not use that we could have gotten some leverage- Pathable can add a mini WetPaint wiki to each session listed in the calendar, so we could have asked people to share notes, links there. I resisted using the title of “report card”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). at 5:53 am BuddyPress is amazing… but it lacks wiki’s and document sharing… which are two massive shortcomings for it’s use as a sharing and collaboration network for organizations.

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