Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. I hope he shares it. Here’s the description.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Open for Action — A blog for OpenAction thoughts and musings – "Not sure about you, but we’re saying finally! Who Tweets?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS®

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

"At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)." Tags: roundup bookmarks. Will you be in San Francisco on April 25th? Why not check out Penguin Day! "At Check it out.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods." Tags: roundup bookmarks. in cash for their organizations!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

It’s useful to bookmark a few performance tips posts for easy reference. In a recent presentation, Carr Systems CTO Jason Fisher describes it this way: “Pre-rendering is like opening up a screen shot of an Excel spreadsheet with 10,000 rows of data rather than opening up Excel and the data within it. Conclusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. Tags: roundup bookmarks. The idea of a networked organization is fascinating to me and hinges, truly, on organizations taking a networked approach both IN and OUT of the organization's "walls."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). That is so cool.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks in sync between multiple browsers: [link]. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use). — Free anti-virus for home use: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. Those windows are already open, and I use them everyday. First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow. 20_new_thing to change the world!&#

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 Can automatic translation tools, social bookmarks, news digging, etc. Today I got an email about Mypacis - a word play on myspace and peace? make communication easier?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

She said delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. just the other day I found an excellent case study on the Khmer Open Source Localization project. For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. But this has changed.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

This valuable resource is going into my bookmarks to stay! I've barely explored the information available on their main website, but the blog is a veritable ticker-tape of valuable resources. The blog exchange has its own Blogger website , by the way, in case you'd like to join or comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not I know of a very active local organisation that uses 2 great opensource web2.0 apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. there's a boatload of social bookmarking sites for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Supporting social tagging of museum collections, and providing access based on the resulting folksonomy, opens museum collections to new interpretations that reflect visitors???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the bookmarking and search capabilities of web browser software. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). Although sometimes you have to sift through a lot of crap).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

" And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. without leaving the virtual world!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Social Bookmarking. Introduction. Act 1: The Problem.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. I’m not entirely sure what I think, yet – because, truth be told, all of that online data I talked about is also in pretty closed proprietary platforms, so if I were really religious about openness, I might actually not end up using any of them. Be Helpful.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This came particularly frustrating when I started an Ello account for our web agency @RadCampaign so we could share fun photos and musings related to open source and philanthropy. Nicolelee on Ello posted on her Ello feed that she spoke with a couple of the co-founders who confirmed that there is a bookmarking feature in development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

You can create lists of links on wikis and blogs, but there are also tools that allow you to connect directly to other staff members while you are in the process of discovering and bookmarking items across the Web. By sharing your bookmarks with other staff members, you can create targeted link lists for a variety of projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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