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! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source.

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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. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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! So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) These are but two recent examples of how decentralized digital networks can have dramatic effects on centralized hierarchies. And it's fun!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. collaboratively developed software, and, really, collaborations of all sorts are limited by this mentality. So it doesn’t happen. This reminds me of a true story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Our annual Storymakers digital storytelling challenge. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Robert Kirkpatrick of the UN Global Pulse project spoke of the pervasiveness of mobile technology in the developing world, and how together with mobile carriers they form a sort of sensor networks that give " digital smoke signals." Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. All of this software is free and much of it is open source.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets. • Data management • Drones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). 4) provide collaborative opportunities within, and between organizations? So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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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. As Lifehacker notes , seems like this is a quick and dirty way to submit issues to tech support. Do you have advice? Pulling my hair out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. I know there is a similar cooperative in the Bay Area called Tech Underground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re Social Metrics: The Search for ROI in Social Media by Steve Latham of Spur Digital. re working with???something something like a consulting company or creative manager."

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

—– Aashika Damodar & collaborative technology for social impact. Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. How you can create an online collaboration space!

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Frontline SMS’ and Ushahadi’s collaboration is an example of this. availability, access and service improve so will innovation. Developing. countries are examining ways to use mobiles and nonprofits can help to. spur this along. was used to help find missing political dissidents. Today there are over 150,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Nonprofit Software Earlier this month, Convio alerted its nonprofit clients of an Online Security Issue as reported by the nonprofit tech blog (be sure to read through the comments), NTEN and TechSoup blog. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! " You read an excerpt here.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Another consideration is the platforms already in your association’s tech stack. These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. Absorb Create.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

We also showed how organizations can tackle the process of finding the tech that helps the most when you don't necessarily have the time to research. Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. In part 2, we look at people's favorite tools.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. I dont know people other than Thomas Gensemer of Blue State Digital who would say that e-News is dead.

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