Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

See our recent spotlight on StoryCorps to learn more and stream one of the organization's stories. I asked Dean for IT tips that I could pass on to small nonprofits, and since I knew Dean was an open source advocate, I asked him his thoughts on open-source solutions for the nonprofit community.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. I can guess this happens in every community, and it is frightening. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Maybe our community doesn’t know how to think in bold, innovative ways.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. ASU found that a significant population of its community were already using Slack, making it an ideal choice for a new collaboration tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. I think it means nothing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here are some of the highlights: Five Weeks to “A Miracle”: The Ukrainian Red Cross’s Story. We’re so grateful to Yaroslav for taking the time to share his story with us at NetHope, and I was honored to be a part of it. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+. Data to Rapidly Respond to a Humanitarian Crisis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

We uphold our vision by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. This is such a very specific example, but it’s one that has a big impact for us and our community. PFLAG works to empower individuals to be proud of their identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. writes for Wired, and has worked with pioneering journalism bloggers like Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis. He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art. The Frist Art Museum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Europe and UK.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

In the absence of standards that protect that information, the lives of suffering people—victims, witnesses, and the defenders who collect their stories—are all too often put in harm''s way. They are based in a country where the LGBT community faces a hostile social climate and state-sanctioned harassment. This is but one incident.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To serve a community, you have to be in the community. This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. What makes this product particularly special is that our community developed it through The Commons program. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. . Each of these innovations was designed for and with the nonprofits represented at Nonprofit Summit, and their community partnership continues to be extremely important.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Being geeks, we thought of ways to address this challenge with technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. and she’s well underway bringing positive change to many more communities. and she’s well underway bringing positive change to many more communities. Majora’s life journey is an inspiring story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The theme of this year's conference is "Making Meaning Matter" with panels and discussions on community building and digital media. Heroic Stories Capture Nonprofit Audiences. Sachs advised organizations to look to ancient mythology when forming their stories. Want to learn more about telling your story on the web?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Floodlight, an interesting data storytelling tool for communities is also featured. Open Government Data. Data Won the U.S. Data Storytelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It’s a wonderful opportunity for our community to share our collective wisdom with inspiring stories and practical tools that help women professionally and personally and of course, change the world. Tags: community events conference event technology women wwt. Check out these awesome panels and sign up today.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our volunteer community leaders are holding free events across the US (and the globe). Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. --> Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. Users will insist on increased ownership and oversight of their data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library. on how to get your organization started telling stories digitally. User-generated content includes how-tos, interviews, and life stories.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our support of groups advancing LGBTI rights is opening up new opportunities for helping many more such groups around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Michael’s guest post explains more: A Better Way to Produce Reports Nonprofit Annual Reports , guest post by Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

It’s the NTEN community that provides all the magic at the conference. We just show up and make sure you guys have ample opportunities to share your amazing stories and expertise. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you! Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories. The community showed me a need for what I built, so I used this momentum as an opportunity to take what I built to the next level. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Where did the idea for OpenAction begin?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. All of us at Benetech felt that it was absolutely essential to once again rely on our user community as we plan how to utilize these limited resources most effectively.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2009

When most people hear the word Mozilla, they think of the popular open source browser, Firefox and the plug-ins that help many of us to do our daily work on the web. The Mozilla community includes a diverse international crowd of developers and supporters working to make the web better. Need some help thinking of ideas?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Event] Example Tweet: UNICEF is using RapidSMS in 23 countries, many more users who download the open source software. volunteer[s]: This hashtags can be useful to send out a call for volunteers, to thank volunteers, or to promote the work of your volunteer community. Any hashtag success stories? link] || #SanFrancisco.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Client success story: We’ve seen plenty of examples of organizations that have switched from free fundraising solutions to Bloomerang and experienced a boost to their fundraising and donor management strategies. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Thankfully, what was once incredibly expensive is now much more accessible thanks to the rise of open source software and cloud computing. That way we can see the big picture and tell the full story," said TechSoup co-CEO Rebecca Masisak. Make Sure Everyone Has Access to It. Big Data and Your Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Students can create interactive stories, games, and animations to understand the basic concepts of programming before learning actual code. Adafruit also offers step-by-step guides for many fun electronics projects that feature the Raspberry Pi, and MagPi is a monthly magazine devoted to the latest projects that the community has developed.

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