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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Open source software reacts to rapidly changing technology. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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The more things change …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. re working with???something

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! We have two children that I try not to talk about too much in open public spaces like this. I believe a strong society takes care of its citizens, even when there's no profit in it. once which was a trip.

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! We have two children that I try not to talk about too much in open public spaces like this. I believe a strong society takes care of its citizens, even when there's no profit in it. once which was a trip.

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