Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Should we establish an affiliated, minority-interest benefit corporation, to better obtain R&D funding for tech for social good projects?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. Philanthrocapitalists Propose a Social Progress Index. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I like proposals that focus more on the project, and show clear understanding of the project. Yes, indeed, for some clients, and some situations, there are appropriate proprietary solutions. And I’ve come to understand what I value about some development shops, and what I don’t value about others.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack? We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Does your tech ecosystem require a specific tech stack?

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack? We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Does your tech ecosystem require a specific tech stack?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. Usually the process of running import tests leads to additional iterations on the proposed data structure in the new CRM as you wrestle with limitations of the data extracted from the old CRM. the fundraising team?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. What do you think? era websites. I expect it isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Tags: Tech Virtual. This is happening very, very quickly.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. Email is a critical channel.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

The RFP Process for Nonprofits and Libraries An RFP is a document that describes a project's needs and asks for proposed solutions (along with pricing, timing, and other details) from qualified vendors. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

The RFP Process for Nonprofits and Libraries An RFP is a document that describes a project's needs and asks for proposed solutions (along with pricing, timing, and other details) from qualified vendors. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places. anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first jobs in tech 1,000 years ago was as “Text Production Lead” on a music encyclopedia CD-ROM (Google it, kids). However, Michael Weinstein from the Robin Hood Foundation had me dusting off some of those old finance-for-good feelings as he explained the foundation’s rigorous strategy for analyzing grant proposals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. We've just launched Miradi.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. We are becoming so dependent on Big Tech that we are starting to believe that there are no alternatives to the big monopolistic platforms. 9</sup).

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