Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It just isn’t intuitive to use (Photoshop isn’t either, really.)

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 21, 2009

Jim From: Rick Costa Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:26 PM To: Bookshare Team Subject: A shining example of quality (and fast!) Here's a link to this new book in our library : [link] Rick Bookshare Lab. I get great emails all the time, but this one needed to be posted right away!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. I promise (!)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. People like Stan Pokras of Nonprofit Technology Resources have been working in this field for as long as I can remember (which is a long time). How the Project Got Going.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. Carmina reports on the rate of adoption of broadband technologies in Chile. Brenda discusses the Lexington Public Library's innovative uses of technology. Becky points out a new document that explains some of the trickier points of Microsoft eOpen.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

The digital divide in the United States has persisted over the years despite the inexorable march of technology. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate. What Is the Digital Divide? The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. " In short it's a roadmap for closing the digital divide.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Michael Hoffman. Elliot Harmon Creative Commons , Communications Manager.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

With this post, I want to provide information that will explain steps we've recently taken to focus service efforts on our highest priority: qualifying nonprofit organizations and public libraries so they can take advantage of the technology offerings available through the discount and donation programs TechSoup has available.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. Seven Billion Actions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. After all, volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofits, and with 64 Million volunteers taking the time to give back in 2009, National Volunteer Week is as much about thanking volunteers as encouraging them to come back. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Start here.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

On February 10th 2009 at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in New York City, social media guru Jeff Pulver is producing SocComm - The Social Communications Summit. as of Jan 19, 2009). 10:00 - 10:20 - (E) Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV. 10:00 - 10:20 - (E) Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV. To register visit here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Their two choices (if they're lucky) are: in the school or at the public library. Watch the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program web site for more information. Net Neutrality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A key with an n with 232 digits (768 bits) was factored in 2009 using many years of computing time and dozens of computers spread around the world. Ok, we don't really do all that, the cryptography library we use -- BouncyCastle -- does most of it for us, but that's the process.) No weak seeds, no repeated p 's or q 's.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

From: Pavi Mehta Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:36 AM To: Bookshare Team Subject: Thank You Notes from the Volunteers Hi All, Just wanted to send out these snippets of appreciation from volunteers (in response to what Carol Lake’s donation made possible). More than fifty book requests have already come in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. Can you add to this list of resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I "favorited" almost everything, and I basically used Twitter as a personalized library. I followed anybody who seemed knowledgeable and well respected in areas like social media, social entrepreneurship, health issues, autism, non-profit technology, philanthropy, micro-lending, and Islamic finance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? But it’s a journal about technology and social change ! This goes back to my constant refrain – the means are the ends.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. From my perspective, the Horizon Report's value is in its quick technology descriptions and links, not its predictive power. Happy reading!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy Returns for 2012 – "We're excited to announce that the Technology Leadership Academy is returning in 2012. It's a great case study of how individuals and start and drive a campaign and the way that a concept can translate across cultures and countries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. It could be equipment, technology. Rachel: I was working in management consulting during the ARRA funding of 2009. there’s libraries and other nonprofit organizations where you can actually access the professional level of FDO. It could be personnel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Alicja is one of our technology writers at NetSquared.org and she also does social media outreach. and Community Driven Innovation. and Community Driven Innovation.

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