Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. Women and Open Source and Identity. They are also hosting after Parties in DC, NYC and SF so come on out! Among the sessions: Launching Your Own Startup. Female Ferocity. ROI of Social Networking. Speak Up: Pitching and Public Speaking Mojo.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Collaboration. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming. Capterra Rating: 4.4/5. Media library.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

collaboration and communication and resource organization. They also offer hosted versions with more capacity for a monthly fee, starting at $19/month for 10 GB storage. 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.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. Hosting: Online. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Hosting: Online. Hosting: Online. In addition to these hosted services, BuddyPress and Elgg are worth a look. www.groupsite.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Lasica, a social media pioneer who co-founded Ourmedia.org, the first video hosting and sharing site. Collaboration is the key to success, in everything really,” said Amy Sample Ward, an Oregonian now living in London who heads up London Net Tuesday and collaborates with others to create local opportunities to share and learn. “I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers. Be Helpful.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Collaboration. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming. Capterra Rating: 4.4/5. Media library.

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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. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases. 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. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases. SocialText.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Nonprofits Collaborating to Build Capacity, Public Presence, and Business. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools.

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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

APRIL 10, 2012

With a number of TechSoupers attending the conference, we covered nearly every area at the San Francisco Hilton, from booths at the Science Fair to a whole host of interesting sessions and plenaries. 12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from Ariel Gilbert-Knight. Virtual Teams and Online Collaboration.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

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? – 12:00 p.m. Want to know if NetSquared is right for you?

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. Kitchener, Ontario: Offsite Hosting. Jasper, Indiana: Web Pages and Hosting Options.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. You can read about the 'web office 2.0' tools I used here 4. Go read it!

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. I suspect that many relief professionals were unaware of the event, although I know that the Crisis Camp organizers would have been happy to host them). Some of the highlights include: An English/Creole translation iPhone app.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. of that $50 to Open Collective, leaving the collective with $950.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Goldstein's Fundraising Success Podcast Britt Bravo, Have Fun, Do Good Blog, is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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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 Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. An example is 350 Mexico.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. Always make sure that you have prior consent to use music on your podcast if getting audio from sources that don't explicitly permit sharing.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

Staying true to the open source movement that is Giving Tuesday, The Office of University Development focused on overall awareness for Giving Blueday but gave the participating schools, colleges, units, and organizations the freedom to add messaging for “why them.” Advanced Planning.

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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. Our NetSquared leaders are currently holding free events in 24 countries and meet with their local TechSoup partners to collaborate on how to best support nonprofits in their country.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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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 Yammer for internal team communications and collaboration. It requires very little maintenance. We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. An example is 350 Mexico.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more. Isovera Visit Isovera at Booth 51 and grab a handy "Got Open Source?" HighRoad Solution $100 American Express Gift Certificate and $500 of Free Services From HighRoad Solution. Idealware Article, reports, oh my!

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2006

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. 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. Global NpTech.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. Looking for something to do on Wednesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. More On Social Networking for Social Change OneNorthWest recently hosted a seminar on social networking sites and environmental organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. While not a full-scale LMS, Easygenerator is an eLearning authoring tool that offers course hosting services for organizations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

The scope and scale of the events your nonprofit plans to host matter greatly for the type of event management software you choose. However, larger events require much more coordination and cross-team collaboration, making it worth it to invest in paid solutions that offer a wider range of features. Your event’s format.

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