Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

This post is co-authored by Feru Deshong, BSc ’23 Babson College & Beatrice Mhando, BSc ’22 Vanderbilt University. These digital strategies work hand-in-hand to elevate a website. Stay tuned as we plan on releasing it on Drupal.org as an open source solution for all to use!

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Invest in Open Source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Co-authored with Enrique Piracés, Benetech VP, Human Rights. The summer of Snowden and revelations about the NSA have brought the public and private debate about digital privacy into the mainstream. But it is clear that privacy protections have not kept pace with technological development.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s For example, AfrikaVuka , the digital organizing platform for 350 Africa, is a climate organizing platform now engaging about 100 groups across the continent. Bentley Motors’ new digital platform is a crucial component of its goal to become a leader of sustainable luxury mobility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust. What’s next?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. London, United Kingdom: Digital Inclusion — Getting Online. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. About the Co-Authors. Erin Rickard is Fíonta’s digital services manager, leading the web design and development practice.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

All of your digital marketing outlets, including email, social media, online ads, all seem to lead back to your nonprofit site. About the Author: Anne Stefanyk. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' It originally appeared on NetSquared. Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, odt, rich text, pdf) Allows any vendor of books (like Lulu, for instance) or any independent author to provide books for the device. It supports the open formats, and any book that is not DRMed is sharable. Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. { at 1:52 pm Thanks!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Don’t miss this year’s telesummitt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Lately, my team has been translating my findings into digital assets so that many more people can benefit from the insights. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. For non-profits, it’s a cost-effective way to establish thought leadership on your issue and speak with authority.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. Now, as new educational materials roll out to meet the new Common Core standards in K–12, and as publishers strive to meet consumer demand for eBooks, the products are increasingly “born digital.”? Have an Android device?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story now, because we have $13,000 in prizes available! Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling. September 23.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Tags: digital learning resources collaboration nptech resource socialbrite. Subscribe to our blog updates: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good. I need to figure out a good network configuration. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The author with his Raspberry Pi. If you're looking for even more inspiration, here's a short list of other things you can build for educators: Temperature Monitor Source: Raspberry Pi - Temperature Monitoring by Findus238 / CC BY. Digital camera. Power source. hardware open source' Weather station.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order.

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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. About the Author. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Cheryl Timoney.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. Your choice in course authoring software is just as crucial as the tools you choose to deliver the content to learners. What are the best eLearning authoring software? What is course authoring software?

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Charelene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas. Women and Open Source. Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling. Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum. Natalie Foster of the DNC. Ellen Miller of Sunlight Foundation. Deanna Zandt.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Europe and UK.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. Sunday, May 14, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. Using Twitter, a digital camera and software that makes it easy to post photos to twitter and his network, he was able to quickly identify this mystery bird.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Lausanne, Switzerland: Intergen Digital. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Victoria, British Columbia: Women in Technology Panel #2.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

The busses around here are called PVTA – for Pioneer Valley Transit Authority. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Speaking of communities … Open up beyond your “partners&# – Really getting involved in writing apps for either platform requires that people become official partners of the companies. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Digital Marketing for Non-Profits panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM – “How to work with limited marketing budgets and a failing economy to build an online brand, raise awareness of a cause and fundraise effectively. It's more than a desire to wear t-shirts and jeans to work; it's a new mindset.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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