Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action. The tool helps with the how. What does working wikily mean?

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

While reviewing websites, we specifically looked at the different types of social media organizations were integrating into their websites. Open source. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. Photo by Noneck. Here's the official press release ). for less that $6.00 USD you'd can be served a mountain of food fit for a king. little did i know that for less that $2.00

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. I wholeheartedly agree ! generators.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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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. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

This session will get beyond the trendy obsession with social networks and help participants better understand the dynamics and metrics of successful networks. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. Do they make a difference? With snacks! How to Save the World with Firefox Extensions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces. Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. For a map of the Cambodian Blogosphere, check out the Global s Wiki.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. open source. delivering a workshop), compared to evaluating a larger-scale outcome (e.g. impacts on decision making). podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. This can help you get out a blogging rut. Freecharity.org.uk Expo Ignite!

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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. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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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. Be Helpful. 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. I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina. That's actually really easy to do.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

” It has a Photoshop type interface with all the different tools, basic menus, plus things like layers. It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Have you signed the petition yet? Happy Birthday to drupal ! Check it out.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. The causes range from helping Joe pay for his MCSE to helping Leslie cover her emergency eye surgery hospital bill.

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