Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Here are my slides from the presentation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. If any single publisher or author of any one of the more than 130,000 accessible books in our library gets antsy, they can send a notice to VISA and MasterCard and say, stop money from going to Benetech and Bookshare.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

For basic texting (SMS); group, video, and picture messaging (MMS); and VoIP phone calls, try Signal from Open Whisper Systems. Bruce Schneier, a respected security technologist and author, has high praise for Signal. Semaphor from SpiderOak is a completely encrypted group chat and file-sharing system (think Slack meets Box).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Nonprofit Technology Magazine is a free monthly multimedia iPad publication that provides some of the best technological information available from leading authorities in the nonprofit field. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Some of the free services I like are the different frames you can put around a photo, text captioning, the ease of sharpening a blurry photo, and a feature under ‘image setting’ that allows you to adjust the file size of the image so you can use it for the web or make it email-able. is a free open source application.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

It can feel like this even if you have a great filing system and can draw from past efforts, because each application requires something a little bit different. About the Authors. Stephanie Zeitz. Stephanie is passionate about helping nonprofits and education institutions move their work forward through technology.

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