Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. {

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Being able to hand out grants and see how the money made a difference was satisfying but not always challenging, and on the whole I prefer life on the cutting edge of the non-profit sector, that's where the drive for social change is coming from. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? tools I used here 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. It's an open source free web meeting service. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. It isn't dumb dumb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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