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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

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. 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.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. Be Helpful.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more. WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs. Top feature: Google’s Drive app is a helpful resource management solution for nonprofits.

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Internet Strategy in a World of Ubiquitous Tools: Sometimes You Just Gotta Launch and Learn

Forum One

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Heck, our language is littered with support for this view.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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Intenet strategy in a world of ubiquitous tools - sometimes you just gotta launch and learn

Forum One

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Heck, our language is littered with support for this view.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. economy/archives/82578.

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