Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

In this first part of a series exploring the vast and timely topic, guests Alex Ross and Jacob Chang will focus on social media policies in the workplace. Pacific time for a dynamic Nonprofits Live (#NPLive) interactive event. Pacific time for a dynamic Nonprofits Live (#NPLive) interactive event. Expert Guests.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Generic license There is no such thing as a local business anymore. This time, the customer is sitting at home, wishing she had a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Can she swing by in her car, illegally park on the sidewalk (hey, they do it all the time in my neighborhood) and get out in 2 minutes? Nor a local organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

What follows are my notes, but if you want to spend more time learning about this topic, I’ve pulled together these additional curated resources: 1) Curated Tweets. Nonprofits and donors find it time consuming to find and analyze meaningful data to help outcomes. He compared nonprofits to the business sector. A new type of CSR?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. TechSoup Technologies for Good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? at 11:25 am I totally, completely agree – as I’ve said lots of times. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? 2 admin 11.22.07 That was all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) There are multiple ways to ‘play well with others.’ 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Hope you'll pay us a visit and follow us on Twitter !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

Over on the Stop Cyberbullying Social Network Site, David Weinberg suggested a no bullies pledge , a sort of creative commons licensing for acceptable conduct. Rupert posted on the Vlogging list posted about twittering video blog messages posted from his cell phone. The segment was on cyberbullying and the need for a code of conduct.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. CiviCRM has a great forum for community. Thanks for a great site!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. And we don’t (at least I don’t) want to spend to much time getting all of that to work. at 12:15 am “What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. It should be easy to play a DVD.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

YouTube branding, and free licensing for Google Earth and Maps. Twitition allows Twitter users to start petitions or "Twititions" for something which they are passionate about. With budgets and time at a premium, marketing can be a challenge for nonprofits. 502(c)(3), free advertising on Adwords (up to $10,000 a month!),

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Free Design Resources for Nonprofits. Hailed by the Webbys as “the easiest to use design program in the world”, Canva is a free image editing software that has pre-set image sizes for email banners, Facebook banners and posts, Twitter and Pinterest posts, and a plethora of custom layouts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. twitter-summary.xls.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And it’s very important, we think, that we take some time to take stock now, multiple months in, of how should we be approaching this as leaders. And we’re not using the chat feature with you; we’re using the Q&A box to be in dialogue with you, so please feel welcome to use that at any time as questions arise.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." If so, this is FUD.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. For instance, we know Twitter is a great forum to share ideas and consume new content, while Facebook has become the most popular platform for B2C consumers.

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