Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. To adopt or compete with this model, independent developers who must generate revenue to meet payroll have created new business models.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Have questions about how it all works? Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

In a Composable Architecture, front-end and back-end developers can work completely in parallel based on an agreed-upon API contract. Because of this, there’s often more custom work involved in developing basic websites. On the WordPress side, things like Atlast from WPEngine are maturing and being adopted quickly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

To the Diplomatic Conference in Plenary on June 27, 2013 On the Adoption of the Treaty of Marrakech This is an excellent Treaty. The Benetech team is delighted by its adoption today. For years, we have been working to end the worldwide book famine. This Treaty provides a tremendous tool to accelerate that work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack officially joined the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform for the ultimate work-from-anywhere world. ASU became the first university to adopt Slack campus-wide, launching it across five campuses and more than 200,000 users, including students, faculty, and administrators.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 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. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When I worked at Salesforce, I volunteered with many front-line anti-trafficking organizations around the world, and I saw the scale of the crisis and its human impact first-hand. Back in 2016, there were an estimated 40 million people living in slavery. Technology is not always an appropriate tool or intervention.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S 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. Food Insecurity. Melanie Calhoun.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

To compliment, I shared some of the core beliefs I’ve developed in my experiences working in technology, innovation and community engagement. In the innovation marketplace, adoption is the only currency that matters. Recognize the role of technology across all our work. Focus on why, not if, something works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

As you know, I’m a bit of a technology curmudgeon, but I’m far from a luddite – I’m an early adopter, for the most part. I understand how the varied APIs work, and have to keep on top of whether I should be using a “like&# or a “share&# button for Facebook. Can it be demoted now?

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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. Terri is best known for working with leaders to help grow teams and businesses by encouraging empathy and understanding in everything we do. Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). What does working wikily mean? We'll be using a wiki to create and house the curriculum materials which will be open source.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have found this productivity very useful in my own work and Ma’ayan was kind enough to write up this guest post for nonprofit professionals. . When you find a way that works for you, it becomes a tool that works for you. When I started using BuJo I was working for a large public organization. Reduce over-planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

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

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. After the release of Drupal 8, many organizations on older versions of Drupal opted to redesign their websites because of the amount of work involved. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. After the release of Drupal 8, many organizations on older versions of Drupal opted to redesign their websites because of the amount of work involved. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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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.) programmers work on OOo. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. They are having 35 (!) Be Helpful.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. After the release of Drupal 8, many organizations on older versions of Drupal opted to redesign their websites because of the amount of work involved. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members. If you need help.

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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. "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry. Open Philanthropy is about sharing.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The problem is that there so many hashtags floating around on Twitter, that’s it tough to keep track of which hashtags work best and reach the most individuals. Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. link] || #SanFrancisco. A final note.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

They announced that their server product, Quickbooks Enterprise , will be released to work on Linux Servers. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Subscribe to my TextMark campaign to experience how it works and see my Mobile Technology Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations for detailed information about frequency of text messages, how to build your list, and other best practices. Example: www.textmarks.com/nonprofitorgs. Start building your mobile list and sending messages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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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. The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. How do you keep up? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are new to the Linux biz, there isn’t any reason I could see to adopt CentOS.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. 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.

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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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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. What makes online forums work or not work?

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