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. It sounds like you're an "accidental techie" - in that you didn't get training to do tech stuff.

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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 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. Mitchell 04.08.07

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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). Behold the Cost-to-Benefit Ratio—Robin Hood Foundation It’s not popular to admit this in the non-profit sector: I have a finance degree. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Introduction.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness. When we code at Forum One it's all open source, and our tech team put their open-source hearts into Datamasher. The friendly Carolina vocals of Joe Pringle's handy-dandy introductory video about how to use Datamasher, making it so easy to understand.

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