Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? My wife, Deepa, really got me started on the notion of gift economies within her online artistic community.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). Defrauding elderly people as has long been common practice for con artists. We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age. Online Security for Libraries.

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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. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

(Disclaimer: I'm on the honorary committee because 13 years ago I worked on an online artist network with the New York Foundation for the Arts and CAMT was the partner.) Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Actually, I???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. The track name, artist, and album are the most important fields to complete, but don’t forget to change the genre to "Podcast", as well.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems. The strength of our team is in the diversity of our experiences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. The concept is practical: cut the time and expense of exhibit development by creating a social space where exhibit developers from many museums—along with scientists, artists, visitors—can collaborate to design concepts for exhibits.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

– "Well how about that – after Epic Change’s use of JustCoz, and Al Gore’s campaign with Climate Reality Project in September to get folks to donate their status updates, someone has gone and open sourced the concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Being an open source and open data geek, the menu was accompanied with some open data about what was ordered most during the previous month! I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

at 10:31 am Art Social Networking - Network Management Systems Zen and the Art of | Artist Days 11.03.08 What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/15 « i On Nonprofits 09.18.08 Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There is a whole range of recyclers, hackers, metalworkers, weavers, builders, circuit benders, and artists up and down the East Coast that NYSCI connected with through the Maker Faire planning. An open source 3D printer kit was a clear hit, supported by 3D printing workshops. We want that for our visitors.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since. In that role, she is responsible for marketing, communications, and fundraising.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, Stocksy United, a platform cooperative for photographers, videographers, and artists generally, has a fair wage distribution system for members. 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.

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