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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both open source and SaaS as catalysts for change. Open Source, it can be SaaS and Open Source.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. Leadership isn’t open. We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching. What is in it for us?

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The DoGooder Awards recognize exceptional use of video to promote good causes and are sponsored by YouTube and TechSoup donor partner, Cisco. We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption. Have a look at the four winning videos on YouTube. Wearable Computing and the Frontiers of NPTech.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

Barclays Bank analyst Ben Reitzes forecasts a 6 percent year-over-year decline in the sales of PCs due to increasing adoption of tablet computers and smartphones. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013. called Martus.

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