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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Craig Foster, a former Australia National Football Team captain who played 29 times for Australia, led an international campaign to free a young Bahraini footballer and refugee, Hakeem al-Araibi, from a Thai prison.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Breakout Session 1 Jenny Kapp, Community Connections Australia - Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. There are some organizations that are filling the void.

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NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

Melbourne, Australia: How to best engage volunteers with your organisation. Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. August’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Tuesday, July 30. Wednesday, July 31. Tuesday, August 6.

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Web Design Resources from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

The COO of 99designs, a design firm based in Australia and San Francisco, guest blogged about web design for Connecting Up, TechSoup's Australia and New Zealand partner. Connecting Up held webinars on two open-source content management systems: Introducing the Joomla CMS and Introducing the Drupal CMS.

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Social Enterprise and Intellectual Property

Tech Soup

Here's a great interview with Richard Jefferson that ABC TV Australia ran a few months ago. He makes the alluring point that open source - something we often think of as a recent development - has actually existed for millennia, much longer than proprietary technologies. read more.

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Crowdsourcing put to good use in Africa | Madeleine Bunting | Global development | guardian.co.uk

AFP Blog

Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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