Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Join us in this session to learn what responsible AI could mean for your school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change? Brand career hiring job nonprofit open source recruiting social enterprise social entrepreneur tech4good VP of Engineering'

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. Open source is a community-driven effort.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact. We’re excited to collaborate with you!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Register today!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. They were talking about API’s. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. The web interface is great, as is the desktop applications. I love the collaboration features. It works for multiple projects. Another important tool, which I use in my personal life as well as consulting life, is Evernote.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

For the last few months, I have been working on a new collaboration called OpenIssue , which is a growing, diverse, self-reflective and constantly-learning team. We are keenly interested in building on our expertise to integrate these open platforms in really rich ways, to allow organizations to create great online applications.

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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. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Maintain and develop our data deduplication (entity resolution) framework written in python and Java.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2021

NTEN is proud to be the new steward of The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , elevating and celebrating open source development for social impact work. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Open Source for Social Impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. I can’t do what I do without being a technology expert. And I can’t stay a technology expert without continually learning.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

All of this software is free and much of it is open source. Enigmail is an add-on for Thunderbird (an email application from Mozilla) that provides OpenPGP message encryption and authentication to your messages. is the free version of PGP and is the most widely used email encryption standard in the world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? – 12:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Saturday, March 26.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

OpenStreetMap: If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps that is open source, check out OpenStreetMap.org which allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Leave a comment below if you are interested in receiving one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application? Foundation application? Foundation application? " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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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. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Tags: Influence Collaboration Data & Visualizations Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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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. Missing Persons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

application programming interfaces ??? The speakers will also give their opinions on why openness matters and what open APIs mean for the open source movement. The openness sparks creative solutions, collaborations, accelerates partnerships, and sharing. via an email and blog post from NTEN.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

A partnership project between The Tech Museum , local technology companies like Intel , Applied Materials , and Nokia , and Santa Clara University's Center for Science Technology and Society , the Tech Awards itself is a testament to collaborative innovation and achievement. How will you scale? How do you compete in the marketplace?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 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. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. It's an open source free web meeting service. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Frontline SMS’ and Ushahadi’s collaboration is an example of this. predicts that the mobile application craze in the developed world may. mobile web, applications that run on a browser," as African cloud. availability, access and service improve so will innovation. Developing. spur this along. developers.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

With Service Net, it is a great example of a collaborative technology solution.”. Said details how the system could improve data accessibility: Collaboration will also ensure that records are more comprehensive. Anh Bui, former director of Benetech Labs, told NPQ that Benetech’s methodology is to “build and harness community.

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