Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Among the new Twitter analytics tools, TweetPsych stands out for its very different perspective — it analyses the language of your tweets to create a "psychological profile" and to suggest other Twitter users who "think like you.".( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter webinar analytics social media.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Open at first only to users in the US and India, Facebook Lite is now available to all English-language users. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook. First reactions to Facebook Lite seem to be mostly positive, albeit with the inevitable comparisons to Twitter’s lean message stream. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

I “met&# virtually Chris first through the NpTech Tag in 2007 and he kindly helped me clean up an RSS mess. One thing I discovered was Meedan’s “ Transbrowser &# that allows you to plug in a URL in one language and translate it to another. Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This grant will allow us to deliver a set of major enhancements and new language translations for Martus, as well as expanded development and broad deployment of Mobile Martus , our brand new Android-based mobile documentation app. We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

In your initial conversations about the aesthetic you’re after, does the agency staff communicate in language that you can understand? Do you have multi-language needs? If so, has the agency worked on other multi-language sites? Technology nptech' That’s okay, as long as you like that look and feel.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

If you have in-house expertise, and are doing this as a one-off project, for example, the person making the templates would have to learn the specific templating language used by the static site generator. There are static site generators in every programming language. These templates give the website its look and feel.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

" Regardless of whether or not Hemingway himself wrote those 6 words, two things are certainly true: It's a fantastic use of language. It's hard to use language effectively -- and even harder to be concise and effective. Tags: NPTech NTEN tagline. The words were: "For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Programming languages and I have issues. As someone who has managed to learn some Apex , which is, frankly, somewhat of a monster of a programming language, it’s pretty clear that it’s not super easy to build complex apps using it. I have yet to manage to pick one early. So why would Salseforce.com buy it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

PHP is one of many programming languages. This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. The Evolution of NPTech. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&#

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

The thing is, there are about 250,000 words in the English language. Tags: adwords Google google grants NPTech NTEN. It could look something like: Antidisestablishmentarian. That's a long word! What's it mean? It's 25 characters long! www.pedants-unite.org/languagerules. Then there are the keywords.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Web analytics can tell you a lot of things -- what your visitors are engaging with, where they're coming from, what's likely working (and what's not) -- but if you don't understand the language, it's just another time suck. Tags: NPTech NTEN web analytics. And (time spent reading our blog aside) we know you don't have a lot of that.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services. Web Platforms - Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers. Register today!

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Finding nptech , Alex Kadis. Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. 13ntc Community nptech nten Program' Key Takeaways from the Minnesota Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference and the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Jason Samuels. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Is the clear jump after 2010 due to the more inclusive language in the survey question, or to increased staffing levels at organizations? Change Management changing role of technology Community Leadership nonprofit staffing nonprofit technology management nptech nten research Organizational Culture Staffing IT Staff'

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

Finding nptech , Alex Kadis. Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. 13ntc Community nptech nten Program' Key Takeaways from the Minnesota Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference and the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Jason Samuels. Reflections on NTC13 , Monica-Lisa Mills , 4Site.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2014

Unbeknownst to them, that language often creeps into a critical part of the mobile inbox — the preheader. Nonprofit Fundraising #nptech email eMail marketing end of year fundraising fundraising tips Mobile Online Fundraising' Not because it is included, but because of where it’s included. Download our new eBook!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We hear about the iCloud, Google Apps, Amazon, and other solutions that draw on the language of the “cloud” to describe what they do. There is a fair amount of discussion about the “cloud” when it comes to nonprofits and their technological next steps. You may also hear this referred to as “Online”, “Hosted”, or “Web Based” software.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

Unlike Google Docs, however, we've found that Google's system to upload data into Public Data Explorer – called Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) - is somewhat cumbersome to use, requiring us to have at least some programming knowledge. Andy manages the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health's data and information offerings.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

If I get to the point that I can even understand Apex (Salesforce programming language) I’ll consider it a miracle. Tags: Geek Posts Common Ground Convio database nptech Salesforce. I’m sure I’ll have many a blog post on the process as we go.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

If I get to the point that I can even understand Apex (Salesforce programming language) I’ll consider it a miracle. Tags: Nonprofit Salesforce Common Ground Convio database nptech. Overall, though, I think the rewards of Common Ground will be much greater than the concessions I’ll have to make.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The Ambassadors are senior NetSquared leaders who offer their support to other organizers in their country or region, allowing us to serve members in different time zones and in languages other than English. We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. I’ll decode that slightly wonky language below. What did we do? Read on for our review of the last six months. There will be gossip, numbers and a few bad jokes along the way to keep you from getting drowsy.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

What language to most of our fans speak? The following questions can be answered by viewing the “Demographics&# section within the User Reports: What’s our ratio of Men to Women? How old are most of our fans? What countries do most of our fans live in? What cities do most of our fans live in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. NIDA is a partner with Khmer Open Source Project , an Open Source Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions for software applications and operating system , a Linux SuSE 9.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Community of Practice: Chat with Anne Kreamer NTEN / Community of Practice: Women in NPTECH / Fee: Free. If you are provide online learning events for nonprofits and your event language is English, we want to know about you. Navigating Payment Processing for Nonprofits Techsoup / Webinar / Fee: Free. July 23 — 1 p.m.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Unfortunately, they don't have a "Free Kindle for Nonprofits" program yet, but waiving transaction fees is cool, too. People are writing about us in Spanish. Keep 'em coming!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology. Since then very few nonprofits have launched their own stations, so the post may have been a bit before its time. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I do so love the English language. Tips for deploying (or not deploying) social programs aligned with your organization’s mission. Did you know that the phrase "jump on the bandwagon" orginated because of a circus clown/politician ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers! Technorati Tags: nptech Databases and applications will be developed directly in Khmer, with easy, standard ways to handle names and data.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We know you speak the language, but most likely the rest of your organization doesn't – yet. Take the time to learn in your job. It will improve your work and save you time in the log run. You're doing it wrong if you hide behind technical jargon. There's nothing that can be done, you wouldn't understand" is redundant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’m made comfortable by folks who speak what I think of as a good mix of development-speak and normal language. I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

ammado supports 76 currencies and 12 languages. We provide the space where you can support the causes that are important to you and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations working towards positive change.&#. This unique ability makes it simple to involve friends and family from all around the world.

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