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??? The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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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."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. Google Blog Search. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like? Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Check out Engadget's hands-on review of the ZTE Open C. Internet.Org: Mobile to the Masses.

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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. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Social Network Fragmentation.

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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."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In addition to the detailed review of 11 systems -- including both proprietary and open source -- the report provides some helpful overview for approaching the CMS evaluation process in general, as well as some recommendations for making your selection process more focused and effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! SEO/SMO Grassroots.Org has a general primer on Search Engine Optimization for Nonprofits, although some of the information in the linkbuilding section is circa 1999.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Find your closest NetSquared group and event by searching the NetSquared website. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Search for your city on NetSquared.org to find your closest event. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Boston, Massachusetts: Monthly Pitch Night | BostonSpeaks/Impact Hub Open Project Night. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well? More and more, now we can.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Frogloop: What is Open?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches. Social Media and Fundraising. Communications and Marketing. "The rise of mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the bookmarking and search capabilities of web browser software. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). Categories: nptech , net2 And, maybe some more screen polished screencasts.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. Search for directories that have strong communities with constituents that match the type of person you who would listen to your podcast.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. NPTech Contests and Awards. Wearable Computing and the Frontiers of NPTech.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2012

The Health Equity Initiative is searching for a New York City videographer! On May 3rd, Azavea announced its newest open source product, GeoTrellis, a high performance geographic data processing engine. David is the Chief Technologist at the Pierce Family Foundation , where he helps grantees with their IT needs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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