Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. to develop open source software. at 2:40 pm That’s sad.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. 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.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Afghans were frantically trying to make their way through the chaos to the airport while collecting the critical information needed to support their request to leave the country. I am a stalwart believer that we need to support our allies. I was thrilled to be able to support AA21 as they helped our allies. About the Author.

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MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. He will address how moral courage in speaking out for minority and marginalized communities can unite people and global sports organizations in driving equality, and supporting human rights internationally. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online. Slack helps us achieve this,” says Will Calvert, director of technology and enablement at RMIT Online. Our students have high expectations of the RMIT Online experience.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Dr. Patrick Ball, who has led our Human Rights Program since 2003, now heads HRDAG as its Executive Director and Dr. Megan Price, formerly a senior statistician at Benetech, has joined Patrick as the organization’s Co-Founder. We have also begun searching for a new senior executive to lead our Human Rights Program.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health crises such as the recent outbreak of coronavirus add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace ’s Molly Wood sat down with Katherine Maher, chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future. Anne Eigeman.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

CMOM Executive Director Andrew Ackerman acknowledges that an active knowledge network and “philanthropists who are willing to provide ongoing support and venture into new areas” have been critical. Social media trailblazers open up. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. million in one day.

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JUNE 3, 2022

Three key themes emerged from the Summit: The power of building strong relationships to achieve your mission; the importance of flexibility, integration, and innovation to support your mission in times of change and growth; and the value of having secure data to gain deeper insights. . From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Given the incredible hardships and changes our communities have endured the past 20 months, the ability to offer more targeted guidance and support to help our customers to fulfill their missions has never been greater. Partnerships : We build social innovation capacity through partner services, pro bono support , and impact-led partnerships.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

from the perspective of an IT department director, Brian Kelly at the University of Bath in the UK. adoption, risks and benefits, and how an IT director or department might think about a deployment strategy. adoption, risks and benefits, and how an IT director or department might think about a deployment strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS. So what LMS should you look at? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. And in that world, I am a realist.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. Hard to know. Will they continue in that direction?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software. I’d like to do more of all of it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

Hot on the heels of that (OK, not so hot – about 3 weeks later) I had a great conversation with my old colleague Marc Osten about some work Lasa is doing around providing support to technology providers in their neck of the woods (that’d be the UK.) " Its not that there is a lack of technology vendors and support.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? Connect with the Tech Support You Need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. One thing that worries me about drupal is the pace of change, and the lack of a long term support release. Be Helpful.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. For any supported WordPress content types (e.g., Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, It supports the open formats, and any book that is not DRMed is sharable.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Openness and FOSS (free and open source software) are really perfect fits for nonprofits who share the values of collaboration, community, empowerment, and sharing. I have been known to provide a lot of invisible support under some interesting conditions so that the show goes on. Because it must!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

They saved some in cost from a proprietary PBX system – but then they had to spend more on support and the like – it was a wash cost wise. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. But what they gained, and it sounds like he’s not willing to give it up – is flexibility. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" The people who run the organization need to support it and the people the project is being planned for need to be expecting and anticipating the end result. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats.

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