Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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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. Benetech will of course continue the software and technology development that is the primary focus of our Human Rights Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

You can do a whole network analysis. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. He did an analysis of his Facebook friends to explore the connections that consist among them. List them and do an analysis based on: Age.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

He says that NGOs' international reach and abundance of data makes using data analysis and mapping technologies crucial. Open Data for Social Change. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. Open Source philanthropy data open data big data maps Social Progress Index'

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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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

Thanks to Deanna Zandt for being so thoughtful and smart in her analysis: "Let’s break down why the meritocracy myth is both so pervasive and problematic. ." Why Being Good Enough Is Never Enough on the Internet – Forbes – This is an important post I think everyone should read!

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Open Source: The New NPO Tech Battlefield By Mark Hrywna The battle started with two major deals at the beginning of the year. Software giant Blackbaud bought Target Software and Target Analysis Group for $60 million.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Technology is a catalyst for data, analysis, scalability, effectiveness and efficiency. Supporting analysis and evaluation may not sound as exciting to your board as funding a new tool, but it can be at least as important! Recognize the role of technology across all our work. Let the community drive the innovations you want to support.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Also, Danah Boyd does an analysis of linking behavior on blogs and differences by gender. Interesting food for thought. This is not only important to bloghers, but also niche communities such as nonprofits and nonprofit technology bloggers as well. Via Nancy White. Technorati Tags: blogher nptech

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Friday, October 7, 2016. Tuesday, October 11, 2016. Wednesday, October 12, 2016.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Analysis: Potential, pitfalls of "big data" for humanitarians. Open Source data digital storytelling big data'

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Business Intelligence tools for analytics reporting, projection analysis, and data visualization to effectively manage your data and insights. Open source solutions we recommend for nonprofits and government include Drupal and WordPress. Data platforms include Google Analytics, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and Domo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. What can we say about the open source packages? 4th (since there was a 3 way tie) was CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis - to break down recommendations by size of organization. What can we say about the open source packages? 4th (since there was a 3 way tie) was CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. Open Source data NetSquared big data' Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security. More on that in a bit. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. Now the security issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. That part looks very interesting. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Improved Staff Retention Rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. It will give what you need to be a smart consumer. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

All data analysis and visualization packages are able to read a CSV file. As with many data sets, SF OpenData maps the data by default, which allows you to quickly view the data if you don't need to do further analysis or layering. This is often the most time-consuming step of data analysis, but often the most crucial.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation he set up with his wife, he plans to use the money to ambitiously solve some of America’s biggest problems like obesity and crime through data analysis and science, with an unsentimental focus on results. ?He Open Source philanthropy data big data'

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools. What Is Web 2.0?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Seattle, Washington: Social Network Analysis: Mapping Your Nonprofit's Connections. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing. They provide in-depth reports comparing open source content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. ” He talked about how the private sector is using this sophisticated analysis in real-time, but his organization is using data to answer the question: How can we measure human well-being with this real-time data? Notes from Session.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. I think some nonprofits should read it. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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