Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. I think they are onto something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content. There are different media forms that mandate different types of content — and nonprofits must consider this as part of the online content strategy. to develop anything different. The content will look great on the computer or on any device.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Social Actions is facilitating this challenge to encourage innovations for distributing opportunities to make a difference across the Internet and mobile devices. To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “I I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit. It's mainly techies showing off different cool things they are working on.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.). So what’s the right strategy?

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations. It also provides deep discounts on additional licenses, products, and services. It ultimately would have saved both time and money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

and a lot of different ways to track what your donors and constituents did, both online and off, and have those show up in really interesting ways. Organizations can get this package in three different ways: On premises - installed inside the firewall, hosted, or SaaS. Expect a $35-45K price tag for development and integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Pick tools, publishing license 3. What examples exist of Open Content/Publishing in nonprofit sector?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) So what’s the right strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. million invitation to tender for a third sector innovation exchange has prompted an innovative response - an "open source bid" under which people are invited to share ideas with one team that is preparing a proposal. The Government's ??1.2

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The Ambassadors are senior NetSquared leaders who offer their support to other organizers in their country or region, allowing us to serve members in different time zones and in languages other than English. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Tuesday, February 23, 2016.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. Rickshaw Bank provides a lease-to-own model for their redesigned rickshaws, and “back-end support” like insurance and licensing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

It was interesting not as much for its focus on the presence or absence of “channel programs&# but for the way it characterized the qualities of the different distributions in terms of the business model of reselling Linux. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The site also features recommendations on things like which privacy settings to use on different devices, the ins and outs of parental controls , and basic rules for appropriate sharing for children on Facebook and other social media sites. One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Each has a somewhat different roster of publishers lists. Oyster costs $9.95 per month, and Scribd is $8.99 The YouTube of Data.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It's how you use technology that makes all the difference. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. TechSoup's catalog includes more than 375 products from over 90 companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more. Our experts will also be on hand to discuss the Informz difference and give out other “green” prizes! Isovera Visit Isovera at Booth 51 and grab a handy "Got Open Source?" Idealware Article, reports, oh my!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org Britt Bravo points us to " Socially Responsible Idol " a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s no great secret that WordPress is a pretty amazing program, and open-source jewel that allows users such great latitude of design possibilities. And among those possibilities is the opportunity to create a video library that can really increase the profile of a site and help engage visitors on different levels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Benetech’s approach differs from that of other groups in that we do not limit our interest to a single issue area. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization. Not only do we write open source software, but the content we create is almost always available under Creative Commons licenses.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. What will incentivize different kinds of people to participate?

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The choice between these two options depends on a few different factors. While the learning objectives between your various courses will differ, choose a solution with functionality that applies to the majority of your courses– for example, if you generally require immersive interactive elements, you’ll want a solution that aligns with that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.)

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? Photo: Joe Athialy , CC license. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you? This article, completely updated in 2011, summarizes what six different nonprofit experts recommend.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2017

The danger is amplified even more so for people living in oppressive contexts; there the law of the land does not offer protection to people whose social behavior differs from the norm. In order to meet these objectives, Chayn's DIY Online Privacy Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Let me explain the different markets the products you mention serve: Blackbaud NetCommunity only works with The Raiser's Edge and Education Edge. Blackbaud has solutions in the online fundraising and engagement space which requires a certain amount of content management functionality to support those needs.

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