Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

The need to get practical, to find a business model that provides massive financial return to investors, means that many great ideas get put back on the shelf when the inventors realize that they aren’t a fit for the venture capital model. To the greatest extent possible, be open.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Cybersecurity on a Budget: Leveraging Open-Source Software and Trusted Vendors Presented by Don Rahn, Director of Security Operations, Blackbaud In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, defending against threats is non-negotiable. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Nonprofits don’t use e-commerce much, but I’ve had some experience (on both sides of the profit fence) doing e-commerce, and for some reason, shopping carts are intriguing me at the moment, and I figure its a good time to know what’s out there, especially in the open source shopping cart world. This is a big plus.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Corporate Social Integration – Looking Beyond the ‘Responsibility’ of a Business. Terri is best known for working with leaders to help grow teams and businesses by encouraging empathy and understanding in everything we do.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

New distribution technology is forcing new business models. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. It's the same problem the record labels are facing. image posted as [link]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

The free services disappear, for business reasons. Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? Or is it free because it is a start up in search for a business model (Ning)? Nonprofits find services for free. They start depending on them. The nonprofit community gets up in arms.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS. Experiences are central to administering personalized content, with rules that contain business logic for displaying such content. Administration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Research you’ve been too busy to do, something you want my unique opinion on, something you’re curious about. Here’s my list of upcoming topics: Has Open Source won or lost, or is the struggle still going on? Updates on Open Content and Copyleft of things other than code that nonprofits might be interested in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. open source, etc. Under my hat is a blog post about open source and SaaS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2010

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08 Available online at [link]. Be Helpful.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

2018 has been a busy year in the data world, especially in the social sector. Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. Business Models. I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Designing RESTful APIs. CiviCRM for Advanced Users. Advanced Drupal Theming. Tech Cooperatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. 2) Philanthropy and Social Innovation : This course is designed to educate young, aspiring social entrepreneurs in how to create new models, programs and organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

I also remember thinking how nice people were when I shifted out of regular high tech business into the field of assistive technology, how people threw great parties at these small and intimate conferences, and how appreciative people were of what our technology could do for their independence. That was over 24 years ago!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. I’d love to chat sometime. I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Salesforce was originally developed for a business-to-business sales model. The NPSP is basically just an “app” that takes the underlying architecture of the product and converts it to be more compatible with the nonprofit business model. Is your nonprofit using Salesforce?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

In that model, O'Reilly said, "The only real citizen participation happens when something goes wrong. Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government. read more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. Let’s dive in.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. The Salesforce architecture is actually the simplest piece because it’s built on a common data model. You’ve given a lot of time to the project, even with a busy professional and personal schedule.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source. From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. This breaks the whole thing open. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. I’m not so clear about how this helps users. Be Helpful.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. We are all for it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. Rickshaw Bank provides a lease-to-own model for their redesigned rickshaws, and “back-end support” like insurance and licensing. How will you scale? How do you compete in the marketplace?

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