Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08 Be Helpful.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture can bring a whole new set of capabilities to an organization’s digital stack by providing the means and the way to do all of the above and more, but is it right for your mission-driven organization?

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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 ). Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

That’s why we were excited to participate in the Skoll Foundation’s second annual Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge , a fundraising campaign committed to strengthening the capacity of organizations like ours to accelerate impact on some of the most critical issues of our time. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. And videos! Several maps!

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APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. and Drupal.

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MAY 24, 2010

When Facebook launched their Open Graph API last month they thought they had revolutionized their platform. They certainly did not expect some of its own users to organize international boycotts like Quit Facebook Day or petitions by some of the largest grassroots organizations like MoveOn and the ACLU.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data. Accessibility: It may not be easy to share the sheet with others at your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. It gives me enough pause to trust them with my email. { Be Helpful.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. The SDK will be available later this month. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture can bring a whole new set of capabilities to an organization’s digital stack by providing the means and the way to do all of the above and more, but is it right for your mission-driven organization?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I was having lunch with a friend this week, who runs a small advocacy organization in Canada, that relies heavily on the use of email lists. I think that’s a big question – it matters a lot what the demographics of the organization are, what the goals of the email lists are, and the direction things are going.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Our department is organized into product aligned, cross-functional teams. 7+ years of software development experience with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails is best, but we will consider other open-source backgrounds as well (Python, etc). You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The FCC is also a lot more strict about SMS spam versus email, so you have to do it the right way (here are 5 ideas to get your organization started with mass texting ). These are generally shared short or long codes that use keywords to organize conversations of multiple organizations that use the platform. Twilio.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone.

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MAY 22, 2018

Develop and adhere to your organization’s privacy policy and safeguarding policy. If your organization limits the amount of data it retains by deleting it after a defined period, there’s less data that can be exposed in a data breach or security incident. ClamAV is a popular open-source option. Need an example?

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An Open Book. One of the most laudable attributes of WordPress is that it’s an open-source CMS: there’s an entire community of users backing it up and creating thousands of plug-ins—beyond the basics that come with the starter version of the platform—that make it faster, prettier and more efficient. Money Talks.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success. People’s Action Institute is a national network of state and local grassroots power-building organizations united in fighting for justice. In the 2020 U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Reset the Net is an effort to provide individuals and organizations with a technical, political, and social toolkit to fight back against government surveillance. Regardless of whether you're concerned with surveillance, these are simply really good security tips that all organizations should consider implementing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Monday 10:30: Open Source CRM session ( David Geilhufe is moderating, yours truly is a speaker). Monday 10:30: Open Source CRM session ( David Geilhufe is moderating, yours truly is a speaker). I can’t wait!

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APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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MAY 18, 2021

Omnichannel marketing anticipates that audiences may start engaging with your organization on one channel, and then move to another as they progress toward an action—such as becoming a member of your association, signing up for your nonprofit newsletter, or registering for a government service. Make sure you really understand your audiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile. It is a must download!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Like any organization working on big issues, nonprofits take on. Project management software helps organizations manage the complexities of. collaboration and communication and resource organization. them, makes files accessible from anywhere, and it is fully integrated with Google Apps. Luckily there are a. They equip.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. So first, what is data portability?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. at 1:15 pm Open Social != OpenSocial is a set of APIs. No question about that.

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JULY 17, 2017

million tax-exempt organizations in the United States, comprised of churches, neighborhood associations, universities and charitable organizations. If you’re one of those nonprofits, you’re likely on a tight budget so you can use the most funds possible to achieve your organization’s goals. Google Docs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! For me/my organization, it’s not critical that anyone be way out on that bleeding edge. Be Helpful.

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