Robert Weiner
JANUARY 27, 2012
Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. Here my perspective.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 18, 2012
We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments. We used it to review our planning as we wrapped up this move.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.
Non Profit Quarterly
APRIL 20, 2023
Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Moderators and reviewers often lack an understanding of diverse cultural terms and practices and end up removing posts by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ users while leaving up hate speech and images targeting them.
Care2
JULY 11, 2013
Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. They provide in-depth reports comparing open source content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life.
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