Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

His newest project is Open Source Cinema. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. This film is open source - and thats why I created. Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Brett Gaylor is a amazing!

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As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One received 12 awards in six categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of environmental awareness, health, art, cultural institutions, and associations. Excellence – Website for Cultural Institutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa. Just Recovery Gathering , April 9-11: Join 350.org

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011. It isn’t perfect.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our customers are improving in their ability to measure their impact and create a culture of data and learning. Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together. This figure is up from 84% last year. How Salesforce.org Measures and Reports on Its Impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. This is very cool. But I guess they won’t, given their position. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

tools in different cultures around the world. The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian). He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If data were published in standard formats and schemas, open source projects could arise to interact with the data and give a standard set of tools to developers with great ideas to create new and useful applications. Demonstration Projects. Many small firms and individuals would be eager and able to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2005

Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. Khmer Open Source Software Project is not just technical, but cultural too.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. Be Helpful.

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JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. Kickstarter is a symptom of changes in donor culture.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Opening Hearts and Minds. As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. Another recent free tool that Peter brings to our attention is the new release candidate version of the Open Source Microsoft Windows Screen Reader from the Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) project.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. million users.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. Enough's blog, Enough Said.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. It isn't dumb dumb. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've been working in the non-profit sector for 5 years now and joined Lasa in June 2006, first on the consultancy side of the business by helping non-profits with their IT projects, and later as the wonderfully entitled London Regional ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? tools I used here 4.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

Staying true to the open source movement that is Giving Tuesday, The Office of University Development focused on overall awareness for Giving Blueday but gave the participating schools, colleges, units, and organizations the freedom to add messaging for “why them.” Culture of Continuous Improvement. Linda Douglas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Some more post conference write ups and live blog posts from smArts & Culture and Len Edgerly. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. And if you???re

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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