Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 I hope this will help in understanding how it works. tool to jump in.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Throughout our work, we’ve seen the rise of LXPs firsthand. LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Even further, should you invest in one? Driven by the learner.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

.&# That’s how UniversalGiving begins when describing it’s work. 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. Connect & Learn more.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. 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.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. When we open that can of worms, we’ll know we’ve reached the trough of disillusionment.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That's 5 years work at a full-time job! They've aggregated over 3,500 volunteer opportunities, so there's almost certainly something out there to match your skills set. Mozilla Service Week kicks off today and runs through September 21st. To date, more than 10,000 volunteer hours have been promised.

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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. at 12:33 pm I think digital sharecropping works better as an analogy than as an actual analytical insight. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake. web projects we think the federal government should fund.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Spending two days working on brainstorming "process" and beginning a few technology projects, the group was able to set up a framework that could be deployed when an actually emergency arose.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! a mechanism for turning private judgments into a collective decision).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Tactical Philthanthropy's Ten Top Projects - Sean Stannard-Stockton has put in the grunt work to review 100 plus projects to review and listed his top ten choices. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. There is a difference between seasonal agricultural work and a full time job with benefits. You can read more about their work here [link].

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Who are they and what are they working on? We should also be getting a new website to showcase our work very soon.

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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. there's a boatload of social bookmarking sites for instance.

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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. " About six months, my colleagues who work in KM for Communities of Practice for Development, shared some of the reflections and lessons from an experiment in using tagging for KM.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Direct Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. the best aspects of grassroots activism and digital technology combined with an open source ethos to really change the way we participate in elections.???

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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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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

JANUARY 8, 2007

Paul's idea of blogs by people who work in ICT for volcoms (US translation nonprofit technology) as a way to have an ongoing (but distributed) conversation resonated with me: I have a blog of my work , with links to the two regionally based ICT blogs I have discovered so far. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. A database!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 This is where I can see great merit in Jim Spadaccini and others work with smaller museums and non-profits, choosing to harness already existing, and already ???sticky???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Unlike Superstruct , which employed a very open-ended collaborative framework to invite people to imagine their circumstances in 2019 relative to several provocative scenarios, Signtific is a more focused, tight experience, both in content and format. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Imagine the impact on social entrepreneurs and their good work if they could easily design and build their own lightweight mobile data collection apps! Because its all open source, they could then engage any technology group of their choice to customize it to their particular needs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2017

The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is working to answer your questions on charitable giving with Donation Insights. open data on consumer spending habits for years. Open-Source Insights and Dataset. Donation Insights uses Mastercard's anonymized and aggregated transaction data to offer a report and a dataset.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." 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.) I like it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. NPTech Contests and Awards. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

But if you’re not a big collector of online information like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, what does big data have to do with you and your work? It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. It was last year as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Allan Benamer put together an NpTech version of Digg, using open source software called Pligg combined with a Yahoo Pipe of the Nptech feed.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Yammer works like Twitter--people send out short messages that anyone can read or follow. You will effectively have a departmental journal of work going on, discoveries made, major events that deserve to be discussed and memorialized. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. Open Data Applied. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI). It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. If your nonprofit has staff located in multiple locations or a remote staff that works from home, this powerful, highly-functioning new version of Skype is a must. Twubs :: twubs.com. SimpleBooklet :: simplebooklet.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. Instacart, for example, sometimes bundles multiple orders from different addresses but only pays for the work of one order. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks? 9</sup).

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