Judi Sohn

MAY 3, 2015

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? So I opened a trial account and started reading and learning and the more I read and learn, the more I like what I see.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. SEO and Social Sharing. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Would you be willing to donate a recording of yours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Their mother might be in one of those photos. More and more, now we can.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

By utilizing digital marketing strategies such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and email marketing, you can reach new audiences and promote your campaign or initiative in a cost-effective way. . You have to pay for multiple domains, buy different SSL certificates, servers to host the sites and so on.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

When it comes to options that can really help you sell on your site, WordPress—as open source software—puts lots of additions at your fingerprints from third party developers. WooCommerce however will require you to find a host, and that will cost more money down the road.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway! Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order. Open Government Data. Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data President Obama has signed an Executive Order to make government data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs. Nonprofit Data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We may be a nonprofit, but we’re also a tech company: in ten years, we shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing today! That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The topic was bullet journaling and the table host was nonprofit tech colleague Ma’ayan Alexander. If you search for it online (especially in Instagram and Pinterest) you might think it’s a tool for professional graphic designers – but it is not, and you don’t need to be a graphic professional to adopt it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. 4) Blackbaud Buys Kintera. Wow, this post is from 2006.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches. In 2016, doing traditional search engine optimization on our websites will be good for fundraising — just like it was 10 years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Just like how search engines allow you to quickly find anything you want, future technologies will help you easily connect with friends from anywhere. Data – We collect only data that is on the public web like all other search engines and never display personally identifiable information (phone, email, address). 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine? .&# What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories? Or does it mean something completely different like suggesting that people use more than just the nptech tag and to include a one-sentence description?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. That makes me happy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Search for your city on NetSquared.org to find your closest event. Los Angeles, California: LGBTQ and Tech!

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

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. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

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. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Find your closest NetSquared group and event by searching the NetSquared website. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2016. Upcoming Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hashtags and their usefulness are definitely open to interpretation. When Twitter first launched it did not have a search function, so to be able to have conversations via Tweets beyond Replies, hashtags were necessary. Some love them, and some don’t use them at all and find them distracting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. New (To Me) Nonprofit Tech Blogs. Convio or Causes?

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

A quick Google search of Raspberry Pi projects produces a long list of ideas. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. hardware open source' For educators, though, there are tutorials and projects that are a bit more practical.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. By utilizing free open source software, LibraryYOU and Pop Up Podcast participants are encouraged to take their training outside the library and continue creating.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). What Is Web 2.0?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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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. You can find a lot of help via Google searches. D9: Once the data migration is completed, who is responsible for data quality – the tech team? As a general rule of thumb, though, use the importers. the fundraising team?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I came across your post searching for exactly that sort of wisdom. 6 Jill C 09.17.08 That really sums it up for me, Michelle. I am volunteer Webster for a small, low-budget nonprofit that wants to boost its web presence. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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