Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. What is Asterisk, you ask?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture’s benefits are numerous and the approach has wide-ranging impacts for not only users, but for developers and anyone else within organizations responsible for creating and managing digital experiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org!

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Building equity into tech leadership means a whole different— and exciting— way of doing business. For others, it’s about taking a thought leadership position and leveraging that position to speak at prominent tech conferences, or embracing a set of ideals and finding open source alternatives to address your technical needs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Even large tech companies have had trouble with AI bias, such as Amazon’s controversial hiring AI. When we use AI to help draft a grant proposal—in a tool currently under development—we must consider the potential that AI-generated language could be harmful and offensive. AI often amplifies those biases.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. And I’ll be Google+ing (rather than Tweeting, which is mostly for my writing , or Facebooking, which is friends/family) interesting Tech and NPTech topics as they come along and are discussed.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mission-driven organizations face a number of unique challenges when it comes to building digital products. Composable Architecture’s benefits are numerous and the approach has wide-ranging impacts for not only users, but for developers and anyone else within organizations responsible for creating and managing digital experiences.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. Big Data and Global Development. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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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. As a FUSE Fellow for Climate Action in New Orleans, Siobhan developed the city’s first climate action plan in 2017. Clayton Aldern. Data Strategist, Grist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. Today I’m going to delve into Salesforce-based CMS systems – systems build as applications on top of the Force.com platform. There are a couple of others, and I’m sure more in development.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. How Leadership, Vulnerability, Brand Building, and Fighting Racism Co-Exist with Doyin Richards. Doyin will share his journey of building his brand and stepping into leadership to take action in a vulnerable space. She has a B.A.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org to educational institutions like University of Massachusetts Amherst , new climate tech startups like BlocPower , and established global brands like Bentley Motors , learn how organizations across these sectors have taken meaningful climate action. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money. It takes development teams longer to build and maintain multiple websites than it does one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity. We believe it’s possible to build on top of this asset without recreating it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

As most of you know, I’m a very long time veteran of web application building. I’ve been involved in web application development basically since they started – when, when a cgi-bin folder with some perl scripts to process simple forms was the norm. The developers? What could I have done differently?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Yesterday, I spent the day in Manhattan, at the UNICEF building, with a bunch of folks passionate about the technology in mobile phones, and the ways to use that technology for good. Smartphones haven’t made it into most of the developing world, nor have 3G networks. Globally, what you can basically depend on is SMS.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. As a result, we weren’t equipping developers with a platform that allowed for more accurate location- and issue-based searches. It turns out I was at the epicenter of the Linked Open Data community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. . "OpenMRS®

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. Don’t Build That App.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Partnerships : We build social innovation capacity through partner services, pro bono support , and impact-led partnerships. Contributing Social Value & Impact Through Tech, Community, and Partnerships. Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. In its tenth year, we are still tackling core issues that afflict most of the developing world. Have you participated in The Tech Awards?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. When major tech players and platforms like Google, Salesforce, Facebook, PayPal, Kickstarter, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

This was developed by the team that Blackbaud acquired when they acquired eTapestry. Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. There are no APIs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Three key themes emerged from the Summit: The power of building strong relationships to achieve your mission; the importance of flexibility, integration, and innovation to support your mission in times of change and growth; and the value of having secure data to gain deeper insights. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Future Tech (10:15am, Wheeler Hall). The Future Tech panelists are experts in the development and implementation of new technologies that work for the social good. Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development.

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