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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. From my perspective, the key is openness.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. For those who want to use audio with other mobile devices or DAISY players, we have added DAISY audio and MP3 format download capability for all of our titles, in addition to our existing DAISY text and Braille Ready Format (BRF) options.

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Creating a Culture of Storytelling Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. and Pop Up Podcasts teach library users to operate audio and visual equipment to record, edit, and produce content. Once staff understand how to tell stories, the organization should empower them to share these stories.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.) Be Helpful.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WebHuddle is free, and open source. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. That can share my Linux desktop.

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New Blog: Forum One Field Notes

Forum One

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. The blog uses the open source WordPress software with a free WordPress template. We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.".