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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Next year, given what is likely to be a grim funding year, nonprofit organizations are going to be hunting for ways to save money on technology. There are, of course, arguments that IT budgets should be, at least, level funded during slim times, but the reality is that organizations are going to reduce budgets across the board.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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Personalization for Better Engagement

Forum One

As we explored in our recent webinar on web personalization , personalization puts an organization at an advantage to get better website performance. Savvy organizations use these tools because they understand the value and use of the data they have directly from user behavior. Forum One’s website personalization tool.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

They know they can’t really share everything that happens behind the curtain (and believe me, there is so much that never reaches beyond the walls of most organizations) because they will risk the loss of funding. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009. We hope you will join us."

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.