Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. You get to decide which projects to support — and you’ll be able to hear directly from the students who received your donation. The cool part?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences. Process, clean, and transform data.

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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? I learned a lot.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

We are now directly participating in the DAISY Consortium’s Transforming Braille project, which seeks to dramatically lower the cost of braille cell technology, the fundamental technical building block of a braille display. This is important here in the U.S., and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. When will you become sustainable?

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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? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I was humbled to join the illustrious list of faculty members who have talents and wisdom in content areas that I only dance around of the edges of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms.

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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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

While many people latch on to the Second Life aspect of this project, my primary interest is in the transformation of the exhibit process into a user-generated experience. What technologies help or hinder the success of these projects, both in terms of community satisfaction and quality of outcomes?

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

When it comes to authoring original eLearning courses for your association’s members, there are generally two paths forward: Purchase course authoring software and tackle the project internally. For more robust courses, it’s likely that the scale of the project outpaces the expertise of your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. The owners found each other via social media and the project was born from the interaction,” Ward said.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? All it takes is leadership, collaboration, and, most importantly, will. { at 7:09 am Why do we not see a collaborative effort to create community owned software? OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

Create a Threat Model. Below are just a few tools that can help you keep your communications more secure whether you're connecting with individuals, collaborating in a group, or broadcasting your message. For basic texting (SMS); group, video, and picture messaging (MMS); and VoIP phone calls, try Signal from Open Whisper Systems.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

But other models exist -- namely implementing, investing, and collaborating in open source software. All software costs money and/or time to implement, whether it be proprietary, software-as-a-service, or open source. It takes into consideration the philosophical values of open source (or open data).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Miradi Bookshare.org isn't our only project undergoing significant growth. We've just launched Miradi.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

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. Stand-out features: Organize projects in a shared hub, with timelines, task roles, and task lists. Virtual dry-erase board for simple collaboration. Your budget.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. Vote for this Idea].

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006. I met Brad, and I had previously worked on a project called CivicSpace, which was actually a Drupal site for organizing people.

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