Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine). We are especially interested to hear comments on our work (available on www.hrdag.org).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. I'll do another Get Out The Nonprofit Vote at SXSW Post each week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Check out the wiki. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.30.07 What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for? Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) at 8:24 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alvaro 03.12.07 I want to do more and more writing, and doing this sort of thing might be pretty helpful for me. at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. There’s no reason that OpenOffice Calc *couldn’t* take the lead and go past Excel, especially with the socialized functionality I was talking about. 2 phil jones 04.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). 3 Beth 12.01.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. Social Media I'm hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media. Jon's comments on plone comments. The big question, what about that other 41% ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Submitted by JD Lasica, publisher of Socialbrite Socialbrite.org fills a glaring gap in the social media world. The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. young people??? " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There are two sets of social roles here. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Some really good links to and about Social Media that nonprofit techies will love. The Digital Natives Wiki illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on digital natives from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and other partners.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Leave a Comment. Comments (required). RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. and Social Media trends. open source. Social networking.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09 I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going. Look for that shortly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. Crowdsourcing 101.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

USAID should develop an online social networking community for young adults interested in international development. Social Security Administration. Once the directory is completed, it should be expanded to include other departmental digital communication assets, such as public facing mobile web applications and social media accounts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Tracking Change Wiki : Provides a platform to get involved in the policymaking process.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator.

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