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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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The Best Productivity Tools (Part 2): Favorites Revealed

Tech Soup

We also showed how organizations can tackle the process of finding the tech that helps the most when you don't necessarily have the time to research. If you're looking for an alternative to Meltwater 's media monitoring capabilities, check out the list of PR tools on PRstack. Open-Source Tools. Web Outreach.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. 35 The Open Food Network, an international platform cooperative, has a focus on helping local farmers connect to customers with sales of their organic harvest. 9</sup).

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