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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) Setup of all three has a one time fee. Be Helpful.
Forum One
OCTOBER 12, 2010
But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application?
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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. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 16, 2010
And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. I was modeling crowd sourcing and my new definition of an expert: Your expertise is in your network.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 16, 2010
There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. There are a variety of platforms for crowd funding, including Causes , Crowdrise , Razoo , GiveZooks and others.
Tech Soup
MARCH 24, 2014
The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. NPTech Contests and Awards. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
The majority of the executive departments and agencies opted to meet this requirement through the implementation of an open government public web site built on the IdeaScale platform. The individual sites, which are now live, provide an important opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard on open government.
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