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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock. You know why I started to twitter.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Qgiv Platform overview: Qgiv ’s fundraising platform was designed with the donor experience in mind.

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The Best Productivity Tools (Part 2): Favorites Revealed

Tech Soup

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting. Optimizely is free for most organizations.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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Intranets, Yammer, and Other Web 2.0 Tools for Staff Communication

Museum 2.0

Many people use Google Docs for this, though I find the interface a bit confusing. If you are really tech-competent, you can download the open-source version of Mindtouch (makers of wik.is) to create your own custom community site. SocialText is best for highly tech-literate folks who want to customize their own experience.

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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. JustCoz.org :: justcoz.org.

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