Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Annoyed because it seems the nptech community hasn’t figured this out, even being hit over the head with this over, and over, and over again. I love to write blog entries about successful open source efforts – like CiviCRM, or the amazing stuff people are doing in the mobile space.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Long Live Open Source!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. There's even an NpTech group that has to date 115 slideshows and 31 members. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I’ve been working with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) for more than 5 years. I think the two organizations together will provide a really strong focus for advocacy and resources for open source development and use in the nonprofit sector. See the press release for more detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." And if you???re

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project. However in the NPTech world, I often forget I’m Canadian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. NTEN's monthly roundup of tech resources called " Things We Like " (and I'll add to "fondle.")

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." Check this out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. Marnie Webb also points to this post. What's Hiafux ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. Women and Open Source and Identity.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2015

We are looking forward to engaging with the #nptech community. Getting Your Clients the Help They Need: Three Models for Resource and Referral Apps — Submitted by Susan Tenby, director, social community and partnerships, and Marnie Webb, CEO, Caravan Studios. How the voting works: 1. Create a profile on ideascale.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project. However in the NPTech world, I often forget I’m Canadian.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite.org is launching with a rich set of resources: A directory of Web 2.0 Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Visit the Socialbrite.org Media Center for tweets, information and more about the launch to help spread the word about this collaborative resource!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. " Findhabeas. Freecharity.org.uk

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

(Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Rock on open data and mapping! Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 It’s very widespread. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. NTEN is People!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas). Those windows are already open, and I use them everyday. But then I had to think about it. Check my Skype status.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

We're closing in on our final transition to Communities of Practice here at NTEN and are so excited to be able to offer more free learning and networking opportunities for NTEN members and the NPTech community at large. You can find out more and register here. The first call of the Drupal CoP will be on Wednesday, October 5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Their SaaS offering is called “NC Grow&# , which provides sets of fairly simple CMS templates to start with, designed for organizations that, in their words, “are ready to reap the benefits of richer online marketing and communications, but may not have the resources or expertise in place to make such a website come to life&#.

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