Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2008

One question that will inevitably be asked: can free and open source software save organizations money? Open source software is both free as in “beer&# as well as free as in “kittens.&# But if you have a migration planned anyway, now is absolutely the time to look at open source software.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Salesforce.org Partners and Staff collaborating at our last in-person Partner Summit in 2019. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. He will lead us through a session on learning tangible, actionable solutions for being actively anti-racist in our organizations and communities.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems. OSS has always had a strong following in the software development community. OSS Open Source Software open source nonprofits'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication between individuals. As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. When this happens, the community rarely benefits from the resulting application.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Community Engagement Organizer. The Drupal community is awesome and other takeaways from BADCamp, et al. Months ago, NTEN afforded me the space here to sing the Drupal community’s praises and I haven’t stopped since. drupal Drupal Day Open Source thinkshout Web Sites IT Staff' Stephanie Gutowski. ThinkShout.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 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 #6: Joomla! They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5, 4 admin 02.05.08

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. by the Organizers’ Collaborative. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

They fight for what matters to them, and they collaborate within their pride. And pride is the perfect word for how we feel about our Saleforce.org community. Impact Labs : Collaborate with a diverse group of experts across industries to co-design solutions for complex social challenges. Lions are both protective and social.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you motivated by the power of technology as a force for good that can directly help the world’s poorest communities thrive? Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change?

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Today, Salesforce.org is excited to announce the release of the Salesforce.org Community Impact Report 2021. Given the incredible hardships and changes our communities have endured the past 20 months, the ability to offer more targeted guidance and support to help our customers to fulfill their missions has never been greater.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

To address these challenges, the connection between technology and community is critical. That’s why we are extending this open call for challenges to help shape the direction of the Zero Hunger Impact Lab. Opens new window. Senior Director, Community Innovation at Salesforce.org. Submissions close May 31, 2022.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Under Betsy’s guidance, Benetech is developing new software for social good enterprises to connect communities with inclusive technology: Service Net: Reshaping the social safety net in human services to better connect people to the services they need. Our board and I are looking forward to Betsy leading Benetech to even greater impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At that event, the Tech Against Trafficking coalition – a collaboration across several major technology companies, including Salesforce – was born. But when it’s used thoughtfully and in collaboration with anti-trafficking experts, technology can be a game-changer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact. We’re excited to collaborate with you!

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). We're in a deep recession.

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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. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. Defeated in fact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. I think it means nothing. Here's a growing list.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Plus, they both have a strong user support community. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. But let’s break down a few areas where each platform truly shines: WordPress.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! We are also launching a community to encourage software developers to collaborate with us to evolve and improve the Zanby codebase. We hope you will join us."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. Women and Open Source and Identity. Female Ferocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Social media trailblazers open up. million in one day. million in one day.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. Open Atrium. Drupal Commons. Jive Engage Platform. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. Open Atrium. Drupal Commons. Jive Engage Platform. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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