Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it isn’t a software being developed in a vacuum. The essence of this start-up (it’s not a software startup) is that Klay School profits support the Sujaya School plan and the software Enteef is being developed as a product that enables scale and an exit to attract private capital. www.enteef.com.

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Nonprofit Software Development Summit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teresa Crawford (a Dirk Award Winner in 2002) is working with Humaninet to develop the vertical track on Disaster Management/Humanitarian Assistance at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Among the topics to be addressed at the Summit: * What software and other ICTs do field users need in a disaster response? Pacific (2 p.m.

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Susan Mernit's Question about Nonprofit Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Mernit asks : I'm wondering who can point me to good info on the following questions: Which foundations have funded development for software for non-profits to use for blogging, community development and decision support? Who are the key developers and what are the *most useful* packages?

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Screencasting in Ubuntu and Free Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier. s use), I asked him to blog about how he prepared his screencasts.

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Software Coding Bounties

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website for listing free and open-source software coding. I couldn't find anyplace on the site defined what a software bounty is, but assuming from the listings it means getting paid for coding as opposed to coding for coding's sake. bounties: [link]. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2

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Aspiration Nonprofit Software Survey

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from Teresa Crawford who is working with Aspiration on a software survey. Here's the link and information Aspiration is conducting the first-ever 'Nonprofit Software Survey' of those making decisions about software solutions in and for nonprofits and NGOs around the world. We need your help: 1. Fill it out!

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Is Open Source Software Fair trade for nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David Wilcox has done a terrific job of summarizing this conversation thread recently on the UK Circuit Riders list, " Is Open Source Software Fair Trade for Nonprofits? " Are there ethical reasons for voluntary and community organisations to consider using Free and Open Source Software ?