NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They've aggregated over 3,500 volunteer opportunities, so there's almost certainly something out there to match your skills set. Long-time Mozilla community Ken Saunders reached out to Tutors for All and is volunteering to redesign their website , while Yale’s Free Culture Club is hosting an educational event on Free and Open Source Software.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. . Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. In our view these ? irrigation management in South Asia? refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?,

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. A guy named Peter Deitz had an amazing idea. He called this Social Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The speakers will also give their opinions on why openness matters and what open APIs mean for the open source movement. NTEN is also calling out to its member to blog or email their opinions on the issue and they'll aggregate them on their blog/web site. My preliminary thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 " Discussion Aggregator: I'm not quite sure what that means, but via Marshall Kirkpatrick I learned about Pibb. at the service of freedom of speech. Here's the link.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To reference earlier points in the hype curve, xAPI is what the ACCME should be using to analyze the aggregate educational value of CME activities. Cutting back on the administrative headache of tracking credits for certificants is an imperative for the eLearning industry.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. When the east coast camps took an evening rest, the west coast, and international camps took over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. a mechanism for turning private judgments into a collective decision).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Thank you Ruby and Brian (and congratulations on your upcoming open source wedding ! & aggregation. Wonder if they plan to put their blog logos on the napkins?). Definition. Person/Authenticity. Community/Dialog. Organization/newest. first, discoverable archive. Database/syndication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. Meanwhile, across the pond, Susie muses about GIMP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. Steve Rubel has an interesting post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???the

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks!

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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. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ . The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Small individual efforts aggregate into unique pathways through a complex context. I first heard about this project last November and thought I might check in on it.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Third Place: $10,000.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here. Lucy has more coverage on her blog.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

From closed content to open-source forums. dynamic content aggregation and network machines). But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. The transition from "visitor" to "user." From curator-generated to user-generated. Yes, these are buzzwords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. Perfect Password generator.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently. For more advanced app requirements, they would start with their application 90-95% done already on the platform.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem. You won’t be surprised what we found out.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

There is a simple leaderboard and each player's cards are aggregated on a personal dashboard. I also love that they are opening the site in short iterative stints so that they can continue adapting the platform as they learn how people are using it. I encourage you to check it out, submit a card, and share your comments here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2017

Open-Source Insights and Dataset. Donation Insights uses Mastercard's anonymized and aggregated transaction data to offer a report and a dataset. As for individual giving, there is data, but it is rarely real-time and granular enough to see how giving changes throughout the year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. Companies that I never heard of like Acxiom , Epsilon , and Experian aggregate dossiers on us, package it up and sell it to advertisers. It’s a very profitable business.

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