Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems. OSS has always had a strong following in the software development community. OSS Open Source Software open source nonprofits'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5, 4 admin 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. features a new Configuration Wizard for account setup, offering fresh look-and-feel and greatly improved user experience. The biggest highlight of this release is that Martus 4.5

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

And in recent years, CMSs have been divided into two main categories—the “Open Source” and “Proprietary: systems—because, as is so true on the Internet of today, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? You get Women Who Tech. Why Women Who Tech?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Boston, Massachusetts: Community Class — Intro to Design Thinking and Prototyping. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Customer Spotlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The topic was bullet journaling and the table host was nonprofit tech colleague Ma’ayan Alexander. Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. I’m proud and happy to be part of this community and movement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. popular topics of interest from the TechSoup Community Forums and other. online community channels. Opening Hearts and Minds. As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. That said, many, many websites need neither of these features. Community Blogs. Community blogs with many authors and identified, authenticated users. Kinds of sites probably best done in WordPress: Blogs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). " Predictions from 10 Years Ago.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. Google Sketchup.

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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. To help you understand it better, let me pick it up where I left off, back in 1993.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. Defeated in fact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide [link]. Aspiration Social Source Commons [link]. Open Source, Open Standards Video [link].

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers — Thursday, March 24 — 10:30 a.m. Meet and learn from your fellow community organizers, managers, and advocates. Discuss the struggles, challenges, and rewards of community organizing. Connect with Tech Training (and Techies!) in YOUR Community.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. This means that when a new social media platform becomes popular, for example, the community can create an integration within a matter of days or even hours. Own the technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

There are so many great conferences coming up for the nonprofit community. Ok so technically this is not a conference, but it's going to be a fantastic event for the nonprofit community. Women Who Tech TeleSummit – May 23rd. It will feature opportunities for learning, networking and exhibiting. Register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

Content Management Systems are an essential part of the communications function of nonprofit organizations. There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. And there are open source options that can do much of the same work for much less money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) There are also some other features, like grants management and case management that are more nascent, but promising for the future. It’s a really cost-effective way to get powerful features.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. SF Online Community Meetup.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. They both seem to pretty much have very similar feature sets. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true. It’s a tossup, so far.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

To ensure that your website is able to support your multi-channel marketing efforts, you need a website that features up-to-date content. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

What are the main learning experience platform features? There are a variety of features within LXPs that support a customized learning experience. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning. This makes it intuitive to use for each individual learner.

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