Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

tools for the good folks at NCNA. I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 1) Drupal Organic Groups: Organic Groups is a module of Drupal, which allows for discussions, wikis and the like. Someone else can round up the free services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. A tool such as EpiCollect , which is an Android app. One thing that would facilitate this would be a more robust API system in CiviCRM – access to the data via REST or JSON, which would allow CiviCRM to talk with some of the tools out there like Mesh4X.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Community Blogs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. Tags: CRM salesforce Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS plone. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. from Plone/SF Integration group ).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. Drupal Commons. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Available through TechSoup, Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate is a family of tools for designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content. In A Nonprofit's Guide to Building Simple, Low Cost Websites , we share tools and ideas for building a simple, attractive website without breaking the bank.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. Drupal Commons. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit earlier this week. WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? Check out the wiki. How does this all get paid for? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The next set of modules, that are more tool based (with case studies) are next to be developed. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 What Is Web 2.0?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking tool. It's a super useful tool for tapping the collective wisdom of your network. She also said that she uses wikis. Pretty cool, huh?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO. The wiki is under "by" 2.0 The wiki is under "by" 2.0 The social media game can be found here. Feedback appreciated.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Specifically, it's a tool to help students explore how hardware works, try Linux, and learn to program. Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Power source. hardware open source' Programming with Raspberry Pi. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Community Blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips !

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action. The tool helps with the how. What does working wikily mean?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) All-in-one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

By thinking first about the goals, you clear a path for the decisions around which tools you’ll use to get there. Open source. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API. Authenticate.

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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

JUNE 29, 2009

And please note: We’re here not only to show how social tools can be used to advance the social good – but to learn from you as well. We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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