Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. This Week’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, July 9. Guayaquil, Ecuador: Facebook: Explorando su potencial en las organizaciones.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” million in one day. Now it’s your turn.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. We’d love to meet you there!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

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. Interestingly enough, our 2013 budget projection for the Martus project is larger than the combined group was in 2012.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Some of the most impressive ones include: Blue Drop Awards 2013 - Best Non-Profit Websites. This is an independent, community-nominated, community-voted event created in 2012 that aims to publicly recognize the excellent individuals and organizations that have maximized the capabilities of Drupal open source content management system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013. gpf13 Technical part about data easy – hard part is getting humans to collaborate @ jacobharold — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013. Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013. gpf13 “Data is an outcome, not just an input” @ mayurhpatel — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Then get YOUR organization's story ready to share for the TSDigs events coming up in early 2013! Essentially, nonprofits' messaging should focus on how its services or mission can empower its audience to impact the world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. Why Tell Stories with Video?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. But doing the same thing in 2017, or even in 2013, isn’t an option if we want to best serve our users and increase our impact in a changing world. Have an Android device? During this time, we plan to at least double the number of students served once again.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

This week, for example, NTEN members like Johanna Bates , Peter Campbell , Dean Matsueda , David Geilhufe , and many more debated the topic of privacy issues on social networks (a la Facebook recently) and whether that would drive more nonprofits to customized open source options for their communities. > DC 501 Tech Club.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The deadline to apply or nominate is December 6, 2013. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati , an early advocate of open source computing. Those nominated for the prize should have developed a software product that is open source, as defined by the Open Source Initiative , and easily and widely available.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

novices are heading to Minneapolis later this week for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), hosted by our friends at NTEN. on Friday, April 12, 2013 Presenters: Michael DeLong, Laura Norvig, Danielle Siembieda, Location: Marquette V. something together with a variety of open source tools? Share in the comments!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

In 2013, CFA tackled a range of community problems through technology while keeping people and users at the center. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone. Code for America (CFA) has succeeded in accomplishing great things in communities across the nation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. This 25 th. It’s a very profitable business.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Through affiliate activation and strategic partnerships with brands and retailers, the #GivingShoesDay campaign is setting an example of how organizations can harness the power of the open source movement to drive support and awareness for their mission. So how are they doing it?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The contract for development of the site was awarded in December 2011, but ” the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring (of 2013).” So, here are a few other articles on the topic that I found interesting: An Open Source perspective.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

They can also play a key role in national legislation supporting open-source software and collective ownership of sharing platform technologies, such that collective and communitarian approaches—rather than capitalist proprietary ownership—come to play a larger role in the platform economy.

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