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!) However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive.

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Web Iraq Case Study Bookmarking 108

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

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. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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Platform Build Open Source Profit 104

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Open Source Lesson Tech Project 118

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. What excites me is that Signtific provides a very deliberate framework that prioritizes collaborative thinking and dialogue. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong When: Friday, March 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Room A Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Social Media Interaction Advocacy Online 44

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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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. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. So what does this collaborative platform look like?

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Open Source Museum Game Open 22

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. Optimizely is free for most organizations.

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Product Tools Open Source Alternative 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. And Jonathon Colman created the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Digg Summary Nptech Change 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Open call for submissions, experts select a smaller group of finalists, public vote/commenting to select winners. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. s why: (1) The folder structure of your favorites list is not always flexible enough to allow for easy cross referencing. (2) Dutch Nonprofits Collaborate With Del.icio.us. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. The Tips.

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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. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki.

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

One of the most important take-aways from TransparencyCamp was the momentum and collaboration generated by the enthusiasm, generosity, and innovation of the individuals and groups coalescing around the idea that citizens have the right and the responsibility to know exactly what their government is doing and why.

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Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31