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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Over the past decade, organizations like Sierra Club , Greenpeace , and 350.org By deepening their commitments to sustainability, organizations across sectors have the opportunity to enact more sustainable business practices and set an example for peer organizations. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Voice recognition makes working with and navigating the web more accessible. Check them out! spanhidden.

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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! If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08

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NTEN

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). Blog: [link].

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. And then, we want the kitchen sink.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. In many cases, the training data is curated from the internet, with all the prejudices and biases of the humans creating it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Have questions about how it all works? Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

About 40% of her organization's revenue comes from the sale of educational video's in the K-12 market. They suspected they could significantly increase their visability by posting content for free on the internet - but this would destroy their sustainability. At a session on Web2.0 image posted as [link]

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As a former member of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NJ VOAD), Aaron coordinated Hurricane Sandy and Irene response efforts for Mormon Helping Hands. There he helped develop Privacy Commons and NationalIDWatch.org , empowering individuals to recover from identity breach and theft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. People believe in the internet. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Not so with the behemoth of the Internet, WordPress. If you need more proof that it’s here to stay, consider this: many of the world’s top site designers now work exclusively with WordPress, which means the professionals trust it undeniably, and so should you. An Open Book. Money Talks.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

As a professional in the nonprofit sector, you can absolutely still work to be the best you can be, developing your personal and professional skills and advancing your career along the way. This simple act saves your organization a lot of funds that would’ve otherwise been spent on replacing you. Stronger donor relationships.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). Online Security for Kids (and the Organizations Serving Them). Like it or not, it is not possible to keep kids off the Internet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

Almost anyone from the human rights field will tell you that the work can be as rewarding as it is challenging. There’s a lot on the line—for the person we hire, for our organization and for the people we serve—so we want someone who will be both riveted by and successful in this critical position.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This type of work often brings workers to areas of limited or no connectivity. This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

And this creates serious personal threats in an era where numerous organizations around the world collect individually identifiable data that regularly leaks into other hands. Take for example a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights-focused organization with which we work.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. I’m glad to see that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

" Why Being Good Enough Is Never Enough on the Internet – Forbes – This is an important post I think everyone should read! The Internet is indeed a blank canvas in many ways. Moreover, mocking people or organizations whose maps don’t succeed hardly seems noble, and could even deter experimentation.

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Bloomerang

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

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

" The deliberate style of technology work known as the "waterfall approach" (first solidify strategy, then requirements, then design, etc.) has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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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. You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works. Advanced Theming Techniques - A nice talk given by two folks from CivicActions, once of whom I’d worked with jointly on a client project. I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The process took us longer than we anticipated, but that is due in large part to the great things we’ve been able to achieve from the collaboration between the technology and the analytical sides of our work. I encourage you to check out HRDAG’s new website to get more information and to stay informed about their new and ongoing work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. at 4:17 pm We are finding that to stand out there has to be something that provides and opportunity for the organization to be remembered. Recently, in working with a number of our domestic violence organizations we came up with a logo for the message.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

He has some good ideas and suggestions about how to be transparent as an organization through the website. I do think the biggest mistake an organization can make in the re/creation of its website is to go with the vendor with the lowest bid. Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08 Be Helpful.

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