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New kid on the block: BlackbaudNow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. It is well hidden, but a somewhat savvy MediaWiki user will notice the telltale signs (the URLs are one giveaway.) Did they contribute anything back to the MediaWiki community? Not even a small mention on the About page.

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The Muppet Wiki! One of the Ten Best Wiki Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's why I so happy to discover that my colleague, Daniela Faris, at Icommons has written a blog post profiling ten fascinating wiki communities hosted by Mediawiki software. Of course online communities don't magically happen. re of the Muppet generation or not, this site can be poured over for hours, so set some time aside.

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See3 Communications Teams with Kaltura to Bring Open Source Video Platform to Nonprofits

See3

San Francisco - April 28, 2009 - Continuing its growth as a national provider of interactive services to the nonprofit and cause community, See3 Communications announced today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference a strategic partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.