Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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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. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift? It also means you can pick up your site and take it to any vendor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

I must admit when I hear about Community Driven Spread Campaigns, I can't help but visualize a baby boomer celebrating their 50th birthday and sharing a huge dark chocolate chocolate cake with friends, family, and various people from their social networks. Part one: promoting community projects in the marketplace Part two Corante 1 and 2.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2010

According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Crowdsourcing is being used to help find the answers to these and many other questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

One of the communities that inspired this development - Planetwork has held a vision for how these emerging open standards could be used for social change. XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Are there others? Global NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. " Findhabeas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

” To be fair, Causes describes the acquisition as a new chapter for the Causes community. The Mifos X Platform is free open source cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people. Perhaps demise is too strong a word, then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. The ones most often mentioned by members of the nonprofit technology community include this short list: Del.icio.us. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What type of outreach will AirBnB do to Portland’s disadvantaged communities?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Declaring Open Source - a one-line patch to the US Code would make open source software a charitable deduction. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes.

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