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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite.

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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

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. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” Now it’s your turn.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

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. and licensing models. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

Collaborative. Collaborative. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. It's another thing for NTEN to lead in this area. Participatory.

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Meet Your Local NetSquared Organizer at #17NTC

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Naples, Florida: Google Drive: Tips and Tricks for Collaboration and Productivity. Peterborough­, Ontario: Online Collaboration — Strategies for Collaborating with Stakeholders.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: Collaborative Editing Tools. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration.