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The NonProfit Times - "Open Source: The New NPO Tech Battlefield

AFP Blog

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Open Source: The New NPO Tech Battlefield By Mark Hrywna The battle started with two major deals at the beginning of the year. Software giant Blackbaud bought Target Software and Target Analysis Group for $60 million.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Mozilla Service Week Kick-off

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Long-time Mozilla community Ken Saunders reached out to Tutors for All and is volunteering to redesign their website , while Yale’s Free Culture Club is hosting an educational event on Free and Open Source Software. Our partner OneWebDay also has a variety of service events taking place on and around Sept.

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501c3 Cast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He, like me, prefers free or open source tools and admits that Audacity did have a learning curve and it can be conquered. One of the things I learned in my experimenting with online audio conversations with others who work in the npo sector is that any way we can make things scannable and quick to listsen to is good.

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project uses a tool named, STEVE, an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy The project description: Popular Internet applications that take advantage of social tagging ???

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How do you define Creative Commons Attribution?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. With snacks!

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