Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0 Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Podcasting.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s highly scalable and could be used by many around the globe, and it already has a well developed ?alpha?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s highly scalable and could be used by many around the globe, and it already has a well developed ?alpha?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. " Nesson put the onus on his Jamaican partners to focus the group on a project, a key concept in capacity building. It has adopted a cyber strategy in its own development that is sustainable and scalable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Our Born Accessible project means working closely with publishers to see that they put accessibility features in all of their mainstream ebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it. hour chunk of work that is a very specific to do list.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Designed for the developing world, nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox phones are meant to be a low-cost alternative to iPhones and Android phones. Internet.org is Zuckerberg's digital inclusion initiative to get the developing world online. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). And ultimately, to develop a real (and distributed sense) of WHY the organization will do things going forward. For us, the process is as important as the plan itself.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. Most attendees were Android app developers who are interested in getting into Glassware , the app development platform for Google Glass. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Bay Area, in the summer of 2012. It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. Welcome to the U.S., Campus Party — we need you.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. Provide Context.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Seattle, Washington: Project Scheduling for Successful Outcomes. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Beyrouth, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Morrisville, North Carolina: Spring Fling Networking Event. Thursday, March 19, 2015.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. From my perspective, the key is openness.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now. The revolution that has allowed ICT services to transition to a point of real uptake and impact -- or as Heeks describes, from a tool of development to a “platform for development” --is the mobile phone. . Realizing Potential .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. The purpose of the project is to keep mental health patients to share their ideas and experiences. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

" With a finite amount of money earmarked for digital inclusion programs, let alone development work in general, it seems consensus can be difficult to build. Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Take a look.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

In response, we develop immunities to these signals by installing ad blockers and ignoring sales or marketing emails. Then, do everything in your power to deliver your projects ahead of schedule. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page. A study by Ahrefs found that only 5.7%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. 1) Everybody is People. Do your due dilligence, but go as a learner."

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

For me, the free 50-field version is a good gut check on how well I have my SEO basics down as I code and develop a site. of sites currently tested), and sites such as code.google.com , Wikipedia and Mozilla.org are in the high 80’s/low 90’s. To give some perspective, median is 51.4 (of

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Let's start with one from February's Software Development : Licence Overload , opinion by Warren Keuffel. This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort. You can find it online here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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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. It's a list of Israeli Linux Clubs!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

There's a book that made a big impression on me a couple of years ago, and changed the way I manage a number of my software projects. The book is Agile Software Development with Scrum , by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. Scrum sees a project advancing in controlled spurts called Sprints. The Elements of Scrum The Sprint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) What is a good framework for designing a social network analysis mapping project so you get the most out of it? This is adapted from a framework developed by Roberto Cremoni from the Barr Foundation illustarted in the diagram below: . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. For me, the web and 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. Sharing Authority.or

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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