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 tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

Open Source 100

Open Source Software Open Free 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

The 2nd Annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is just one week away. Come out and hang out with Women Who Tech. You’ll find us in Washington , DC , NYC , San Francisco, Atlanta , and London so save the date and come get your tech on with us. Again, this year we have a great line up so don’t wait to sign up.

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Tech San Francisco Atlanta Blogher 120

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 92

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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Drupal Integration Open Source Module 188

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

In general, the activities of the big tech corporations have somewhat limited and indirect effect on nonprofit technology. For large enterprises, the activities of the big players is a much more immediate and important set of issues to deal with. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

Oracle 100

Oracle Open Source Database Alternative 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I’ve been using social media to actively promote my new science fiction books. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software?

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Social Media Media Social Hype 211

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

Libcloud has become it’s own open source project, and is under active development. Tags: Open Source Web Tools Web/Tech cloud hosting libcloud. Hopefully, this will provide a plethora of options for folks in terms of being able to monitor and manage the varied cloud servers they’ve got going.

Open Source 100

Open Source Hosting Amazon Library 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

Libcloud has become it’s own open source project, and is under active development. Tags: Open Source Web Tools Web/Tech cloud hosting libcloud. Hopefully, this will provide a plethora of options for folks in terms of being able to monitor and manage the varied cloud servers they’ve got going.

Open Source 100

Open Source Hosting Amazon Library 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. There are both proprietary and open source LMS.

Platform 100

Platform Blackboard Learning Open Source 100

Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. He will lead us through a session on learning tangible, actionable solutions for being actively anti-racist in our organizations and communities. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org. Stand for Human Rights with Craig Foster.

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Collaboration Effective Australia Global 122

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users.

Tools 100

Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Big news: The 2nd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is coming up on May 12th via phone and web! Women and Open Source. Video Activism. Tech Marketing in a Recession. Innovation and Tech Career Reinventio . We have a great line-up again. Here are a few of the rockin' women who will be joining us: .

Tech 50

Tech Atlanta Blogher Slideshare 50

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! "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. "The rise of mobile.

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Tech Change Mobile Images 36

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . Marie is an active volunteer with the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, her daughter’s high school, and board member of SF Basque Cultural Center.

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Nonprofit New York City San Francisco Oracle 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Future Tech (10:15am, Wheeler Hall). The Future Tech panelists are experts in the development and implementation of new technologies that work for the social good. Youtube users and environment lends to active participation. Youtube users and environment lends to active participation. Moderator: John Scott.

Tech 50

Tech YouTube Nonprofit Open Source 50

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions."

Web 100

Web Open Source Bookmarking Student 100

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C BlocPower , a Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund portfolio company, is a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening and electrifying buildings in America’s urban core.

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Organization Massachusetts Org Africa 98

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2

Open Source 100

Open Source Hype Badge RSS 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “I I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

Open 100

Open Open Source Blogger Press 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. We rely on open source tools for information exchange and development tools, as appropriate.

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Literacy Articulate Open Source International 145

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. The next step was to get online.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Laptop Open 100

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And it's fun!

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Web Iraq Case Study Bookmarking 108

Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source. Kapor suggested that open government is a part of the natural progression of open source: open-source developers have already redefined software and business.

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Government Open Public Library 43

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Currently she manages corporate venture capital partnerships at Elemental Excelerator, a climate tech growth accelerator based in the Pacific. About the Author.

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Impact California Conservancy Bolivia 116

Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? Connect with Tech Training (and Techies!)

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San Jose Netsquared Open Source NTC 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively.

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Open Source RSS Journal Tech 124

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host).

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Open Source Open Sharepoint Drupal 185

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

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. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

Project 100

Project Module Open Source Case Study 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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Search Skype Web Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Ads can be targeted by profile data.

Platform 100

Platform Facebook Open Source Movie 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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Practice Open Source Consultant Articulate 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

Open Source 100

Open Source Ubuntu Laptop Audio 100

Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

Tags: Legal Considerations Marketing Online Activism Open Source Reference Social Networking Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Content Share Copyright Open Source 43

Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

This is what I wrote: "The specific and primary purpose of the corporation is to engage in educational and charitable activities which educate the public regarding the appropriate use of computer technology." More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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Asia Indonesia Poland Government 54