Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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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. Organizing a wiki team is much like organizing a volunteer or work team. What Is a Wiki?

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

VisionLink is honored to welcome yet another resident specialist to our ever-growing VisionLink team. As the new Disaster Product Manager for VisionLink, Aaron comes from an extensive and distinguished background.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

We have previously given you a list of the best virtual conference platforms as well as lists of the best platforms for virtual trade shows and expos, but some event hosts and producers may need additional tools and resources in order to put on these events. Collaboration. Text overlay, split/merge. Video stabilization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

VRP Consulting also set the Ukrainian Red Cross up with Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud, which has helped them automate their processes: “Before implementing this system, we had a very small team, and the first month I had to work at least 18 hours per day, without any days off — and we still were not able to meet the requests from all our donors.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

You also want to make sure that your content is technically agnostic across multiple devices and platforms (e.g., An omnichannel strategy likely affects multiple departments within your organization, making it important for those teams to coordinate smoothly without major barriers or blockers. Take and agile approach.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

We have previously given you a list of the best virtual conference platforms as well as lists of the best platforms for virtual trade shows and expos, but some event hosts and producers may need additional tools and resources in order to put on these events. Collaboration. Text overlay, split/merge. Video stabilization.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. Climatelinks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

For the last few months, I have been working on a new collaboration called OpenIssue , which is a growing, diverse, self-reflective and constantly-learning team. We are keenly interested in building on our expertise to integrate these open platforms in really rich ways, to allow organizations to create great online applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

number of web-based tools that enable team members to coordinate and. large projects through scheduling, budget estimation, team. collaboration and communication and resource organization. Cohuman is one of several project management platforms that offer free accounts to nonprofits. Luckily there are a. They equip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. Lately, my team has been translating my findings into digital assets so that many more people can benefit from the insights. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. The reasoning is the same as for the email, and email might be your fallback if your co-workers won't take to microblogging, but if they're open to it, it's a great way to keep a group of people easily informed. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. Let’s begin with an overview of course authoring software before diving into the tools your team can access. Another consideration is the platforms already in your association’s tech stack.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology. We think it?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School. I need to remind myself that when I bring social media instruction into a different context, I need to also learn as much as I can about the instructional content of other people on the team. .

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

At the time, Benetech had recruited area nonprofits to participate in four design teams: one on governance, one on funding, one on vision, and one on cost accounting. The idea was to create a common data platform, branded as Service Net. With Service Net, it is a great example of a collaborative technology solution.”.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.” Developing Open Source Software For Social Good For example, in the last few months, individual employees have used volunteer hours to create fun interactive, online learning tools for educators and students using Mozilla’s Webmaker.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

We needed to improve trust and transparency, and we wanted to continue our investment in collaboration with our partners as they bring the expertise of working hands-on with nonprofits and schools across the board. Read more about how an effective partner ecosystem strives for collaboration over competition. About the Author.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. Microsoft and Salesforce Team Up. Since the project launch, the BRIDGE project has become a collaborative that includes the Foundation Center, Global Giving , GuideStar , and yours truly, TechSoup Global.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life.

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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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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. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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