Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2005

The Khmer Open Source Software project has a blog community. One of the recent topics being discussed is: " What is the best Linux distribution for Cambodia ?" " Have some thoughts or advice, the thread is in English so stop by and comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Go right over the NOSI (Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) site and download the primer now! Enough said.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2006

He leading a workshop in North Carolina at RTPnet on Open Source CMS and CRM systems. s and Open Source software ??? We review the most popular Open Source CMS options with a focus on Drupal, then provide an in-depth exploration of CiviCRM, the premier nonprofit open source CRM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

So, is your personal knowledge network like open source software or is it under lock and key? t show the. list and I don???t t put my connections number in my ???name??? I agree that point that with networks size does not matter. Is this another example of hold your breath, set it free, and hope that something comes good comes back?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. This should be good fodder for debate. Last month, I was hoping to catch Mia Farrow in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2006

We thought we'd get the early bus -- we were up anyway from jetlag. Unfornately, the bus driver left us off at the wrong building. It was almost a mile or so down the road. We started walking and luckily David stopped and offered us a ride!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. . Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g., models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting. It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. at Stanford two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. But it can work for you in many different ways, and I recommend you to give it a try. For me, BuJo makes time management and planning more enjoyable. I’m proud and happy to be part of this community and movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. Delicious got its start because Schacter had created the tool for his own needs. So, I’m half hoping his tweet isn’t tongue in check.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You And let's take that a step further, why not use social media as part of the governing process. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media.  The tools section is an annotated directory of open source tools that describe the tool and include links to downloads, manuals, and tutorials.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2007

At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2007

Source: From screencapture at Penguin Day Site. Are you passionate or curious about the reality, the potential and the role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in nonprofit organizations? Do you want to learn about latest free and open web publishing tools and technologies? You can still register. Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? You can read about the 'web office 2.0' tools I used here 4. Is there a downside to gift economies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Susie Halksworth started to write a blog when she was made responsible for implementing the Advice For Life FOSS project, testing free and open source software for the VCS. Yes, I can categorically say that every bit of open source software on an AFL computer is directly attributable to Chris and his Vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2005

Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. Khmer Open Source Software Project is not just technical, but cultural too. Paul Wolfowitz read blogs.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Yep, an open source t-shirt. My New T-Shirt Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. One of the other meeting attenders was wearing one and I asked him where he got. Turns out a friend made it, but he offered me a copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

On another note, I got an email from Javier Solas (interviewed the Linux Chix on his staff last fall) from Open Institute who has been leading the Khmer OS project and building the educational technology plan for Cambodia letting me know of major project milestone: The Cambodian Education System Changes to Open Source Software and KhmerOS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. It creates communities when users can comment and exchange their stories about a particular topic. For non-profits, it’s a cost-effective way to establish thought leadership on your issue and speak with authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge. I've been reading Dave Cohn's blogs or " DigiDave " for sometime now and even got a chance to meet him last June at Netsquared where we interviewed each other. Dave is a journalist 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

They are exploring technology, open source, social media, and more. When asked what I should pack in my suitcase , the response was "tech t-shirts." " I've also been cruising the blogs written by Cambodian colleagues. A few work for NGOs. You can find links to the "Clogger" Team here : Also, Tharum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2005

My colleague, David Geilhufe , recently announced the first public beta release of CiviCRM/OpenNGO, an open-source contact management system for non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. It's an interesting idea - built on the ladder of engagement and the concept of a gift economy. It sports a gorgeous interface, built-in content, and the site also has an incredible how-to resource for creating Internet.TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. million invitation to tender for a third sector innovation exchange has prompted an innovative response - an "open source bid" under which people are invited to share ideas with one team that is preparing a proposal. The Government's ??1.2

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