Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS®

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

They shared valuable insights that addressed the many challenges nonprofits are facing around smart tech adoption, content strategy, change management, and leadership. Each of these innovations was designed for and with the nonprofits represented at Nonprofit Summit, and their community partnership continues to be extremely important. .

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Nonprofits are often among the earliest adopters when it comes to technology and cloud computing is no exception. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. The savings can be dramatic too.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects. Rare has embedded core Miradi functions into their standardized marketing methodology which is used to design conservation campaigns in 50 countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Based in the U.K., Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. It's an interactive flash site that lets users find and adopt words that are in danger of being removed from the dictionary.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

The convergence of standards in digital publishing and major advancements in braille codes – such as the recent adoption of Unified English Braille (UEB) format by the Braille Authority of North America – are on our side. And how will changing technology impact tactile design, production and use?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. One group is working on a mural, while another was designing an LED sculpture.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. The site ranks counties in two ways: "Health factors" (e.g., rate of people dying before age 75).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. I was standing on the "adopt for practical reasons" side of the line. Penguin Days. What are the best practices?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And I know that many nonprofits use software designed for corporations and for-profit entities, such as Quickbooks (although I know there is the NonProfit Books variant.) The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years. For the most part, this has been simple exigency. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. As we explain on our About page, we're out to bust some silos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

In keeping with the theme of translation, I designed an icebreaker game called “Is There An Arabic Word for that?&# Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. Leadership isn’t open. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Some are calling it impact investing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption ! Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Regardless of how well-designed or technologically sound the tool, if people aren’t already using that tool then they won’t turn to it in a time of disaster. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. design: is it clean? Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." young people???,

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Prioritize training and adoption: Train your staff on the features, functionalities, and best practices of the new system. Foster internal adoption to guarantee efficient usage and accurate data entry. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that you can download and put to work cleaning up your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The corporate sector have adopted it. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. You need to get past the information overload and information clutter. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector. Introduced the concept of the Long Tail and the 80/20 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Amy Sample Ward has an interesting take on adoption issues as related to micro-media tools. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? If you start with a theory of change, you can then design tactics around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Hybrids include a mix of openness and curated decision-making by experts. Open call for submissions, experts select a smaller group of finalists, public vote/commenting to select winners.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

was designed for Africa and costs more. We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. The cost for each device is between $20 and $30.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. Viddy :: viddy.com. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you.

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