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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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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony." " 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The time and effort it would take to maintain a blog isn’t going to result in any better accomplishment of mission. Good analysis. Unless the ED wants to provide some kind of leadership in the mental health or nonprofit space, this ED doesn’t need one, and neither does the organization. Which is just fine.) Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

" Interesting site from NRDC called " itsyournature.org " An article about new features coming from social network sites that will prevent your personal and professional life colliding and resulting in embarrassment. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony." " 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. But mostly because the tag is a proximy for "people in the know" So I search on cms or outreach or events or jobs in combination with the nptech tag and find that I often get useful results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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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. Supporting social tagging of museum collections, and providing access based on the resulting folksonomy, opens museum collections to new interpretations that reflect visitors???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

The idea that web stats = some measure of nonprofit accountability is a result of a mindset that suggests that web presence should be the central part of a nonprofit’s communications strategy, and that raw numbers of visits has some relationship to how well a nonprofit works. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins. Are the resulting exhibits better, worse, or in some way distinctive from exhibits developed via a more standard process? Are community-driven design techniques viable for all kinds of exhibitions (and institutions)?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases. No matter your mission, the Salesforce ecosystem can help you transform your business processes and make a greater impact on your unique mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that you can download and put to work cleaning up your data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. Free software?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. It’s a very profitable business.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The result of this action is that Blackbaud is consolidating product. To drive product decisions, we consider many aspects: customer needs, opportunity fit, market and product status, and a business analysis. Consideration of platform is part of this analysis, but not an overriding factor.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I suspect this was a result of dependencies on policymakers developing regulations and business processes, which created bottlenecks for requirement gathering, business analysis, and subsequently development. How will you know you are successful if you can’t measure results? What to do when a project goes wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

More on the study results from Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web and here. The results differ from a study released earlier this year. Sue Waters offers some tips for improving the quality of screencasts and a thoughtful analysis of the pros/cons of using JingProject, a free easier to use screencasting tool also from TechSmith.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

As a result of this increased usage by not only staff, but also by consumers in general, nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will be clamoring to ensure that their online presence is mobile-friendly. An example of this is the superb open-source freeware database developed by Benetech. During the last week of December, 1.76

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