Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

project leaders and team members with the tools they need, from Gantt charts to web conferencing, to coordinate the various pieces of the puzzle. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization. They equip. collaborative whiteboards.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. These folks do astonishing work. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Another major challenge involves the graphic content in ebooks, such as pictures, charts, and diagrams, formulas and special symbols. This is important here in the U.S., and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. San Francisco, California: Marc Smith on Charting Connections in Your Community — SF Online Community Meetup. Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Victoria, British Columbia: Women in Technology Panel #2. Wednesday, February 24, 2016.

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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. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. Meanwhile, across the pond, Susie muses about GIMP.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Genève, Switzerland: Atelier de Co-construction/Com­pilation d'Une Charte Éthique Numérique. Lausanne, Switzerland: Lausanne/Pully: Entraide Numérique Intergen.Digital de 7 à 107 Ans. Monday, November 14, 2016.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Ultimately I'd like to see more blogs around the UK that chart Technology Crusaders use and evangelism about ICT. 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 it will come I'm sure! apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Do you agree or disagree with his overall thesis or the sub-points of his argument? What caption would you add to this picture ?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Interactive charts. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Incorporating a variety of content, from explainer videos to interactive polls, will help engage your audience on multiple levels. . Consider incorporating the following multimedia elements into your content: .

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The platform provides a, “reliable, sustainable source of local data and evidence to communities to help them identify opportunities to improve their health.” . What I find exciting about the Rankings platform is how it combines data and analysis from numerous sources to provide not static reports and charts, but useful tools.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As part of 14LCS, we at NTEN were excited to recognize a few individuals and organizations who have gone above and beyond to push the limits, redefine the way we approach social impact, and help chart a course for all of us to follow. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. One of my first jobs in tech 1,000 years ago was as “Text Production Lead” on a music encyclopedia CD-ROM (Google it, kids). It took us four months of non-stop proofreading and data entry!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

It allows you to tag paragraphs, sections, and charts with labels that correspond to the type of project, philanthropic opportunity, and — post-submission — degree of success. It’s designed to help climate focused CBOs write award-winning grants more effectively, thereby moving money in the right direction. About the Authors.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

They can also play a key role in national legislation supporting open-source software and collective ownership of sharing platform technologies, such that collective and communitarian approaches—rather than capitalist proprietary ownership—come to play a larger role in the platform economy.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State map or chart. Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness.

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