Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. There's still time to catch this opening happening tommorrow, January 10th: European Young Professionals (EYP) To Launch 2007 London Chapter Simultaneously.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org’s local chapters are utilizing uniquely-built Salesforce instances to suit the needs of each team. This focus on partnerships across social justice and climate justice movements resulted in 350.org’s org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

We’ve a global network of 50 #nptech meetups with chapters in 50 countries. Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. But what if you learn best face-to-face or with a group? Tuesday, July 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You Networked governance was of one of the chapters in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , that Allison Fine and I have been working on.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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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. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story. Be Helpful.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. This was the book I skimmed, because, honestly, I was bored after the first chapter. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&#

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Chapter 5 focuses on the valuation of volunteer hours as an add-on to the traditional income and position statements. There is a free online open-source software program that supports the development of these Socioeconomic Statements.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. It requires very little maintenance.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. We use ActionKit mainly for online advocacy and fundraising but we also use it to manage our supporter database, email blasts, and donations. It requires very little maintenance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

This is, for sure, one of the most robust open source CMS to CRM integrations out there, and one that seems to be getting pretty close to providing very powerful integration “out-of-the-box&# – instead of having to piece things together and do customized code, which is more common than not. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

” To be fair, Causes describes the acquisition as a new chapter for the Causes community. The Mifos X Platform is free open source cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people. Perhaps demise is too strong a word, then.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

This article is a chapter in the forthcoming book Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? Read more about the book here.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

This article is a chapter in the forthcoming book Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? Read more about the book here.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Stay tuned for Chapter 3. { I’ll start out with Chapter 1 , which introduces the basic ideas of the book, and the importance of this particular moment. I’ll be blogging chapter by chapter, probably. My friend Katrin over at NTEN told me about it first, then it kept popping up all over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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