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Study the Data, But Eat the Cakeā€”Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. Predictive modeling reveals future outcomes and trends with greater accuracy than traditional methods, enabling proactive decision-making and change management.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Why Nonprofits Should Pay Attention to Web3 and the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. added the ability to interact with and produce content, making activities such as social media, online banking, and shopping possible. Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Furthering Your Nonprofit Career: 3 Tips for Development

Bloomerang

In fact, many individuals just like yourself are actively looking for new opportunities to enhance their skills and become better versions of themselves. . Actively look for new learning opportunities. . Actively Look for New Learning Opportunities. Discuss on-the-job opportunities with managers. Letā€™s get started. .

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. For example, i n 2022, actor Elliot Pageā€™s deadname was allowed to trend on Twitter for 45 minutes before being removed.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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