Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Part of Tech Against Trafficking’s remit is to support frontline organizations’ use of technology on specific projects and programs via its accelerator program. But we also hope to nudge the sector, so its collective use of technology becomes more impactful.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The other panelists spoke about the projects they’ve been a part of, things they’ve developed and things they’ve helped produce. In the innovation marketplace, adoption is the only currency that matters. Look to fund projects, not products. Lessons and Opportunities for Supporting Technology Innovation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, 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. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Melanie Calhoun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Adopt Radical Empathy with Terri Givens. Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project? "Open source software exists in the computer industry. ." " What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you search for it online (especially in Instagram and Pinterest) you might think it’s a tool for professional graphic designers – but it is not, and you don’t need to be a graphic professional to adopt it. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

In talking with organizations that are using it – adoption issues for staff seem to be fairly minimal (my partner, a non-techie writer, uses it everyday, with no complaints.) It’s not only that they are going to be contributing to the project – but remember the old adage “no one ever got fired for buying IBM&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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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.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. New minor versions will continue to be released every six months (in June and December each year) with new features, following the cadence that began with Drupal 8’s adoption of semantic versioning. million members.

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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. Now she’s a Special Project Coordinator for the Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans Guam Coastal Management Program where she uses Miradi to prioritize threats to Guam ecosystems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. at 7:28 am There is now an open source competitor to Quickbooks. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.

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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. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. In that regard, we recently got terrific news about our Martus project. We’re so excited to embark upon this new project! and Catherine T.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Office Open XML is Microsoft’s XML-based file format which is now native in Office 2007. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. I’ve always done side projects part time, but never had the courage or funds to go at it full time. How was the project developed? ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data.

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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. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This is always powerful to demonstrate the rapid spread of information and the networked effect - and can help open the possiblities. Chris Brogan started a project called " Twitter Packs " which is a simple list of people who use twitter organized by interests or locations. adoption for nonprofits). link] (mgmt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. = Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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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

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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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And on the issue of whether foundations will actually accept input from crowds, I think there are areas where the input is needed, and can be highly constructive, making adoption non-controversial. Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action." How can we work wikily effectively? The tool helps with the how.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dining for Women's blog Enough Mission: "The Enough Project is helping to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 It means lock-in that they don’t have to build.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. Investors need simple indicators that managers have taken a deep dive to understand the social and environmental impact of the projects in their portfolios. The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If data were published in standard formats and schemas, open source projects could arise to interact with the data and give a standard set of tools to developers with great ideas to create new and useful applications. Demonstration Projects. Many small firms and individuals would be eager and able to participate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I wrote a blogging module into my web database project, Xina, more than 4 years ago. It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. Or whatever.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed. Be Helpful.

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