Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN. Ensured that thousands of human rights activists could securely document human rights abuses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. How busy is it?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. Just yesterday, I spotted this programmer's blog post about why he has opted NOT to provide his work as Open-Source. image posted as [link]

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Take a look at our Demo, recent Dreamforce session , User Guide , and Release Documentation. We’re also enhancing our solutions in fundraising and program management. Interested in learning more?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. Last week, the Benetech Human Rights Program released version 4.5 The biggest highlight of this release is that Martus 4.5 We’re very excited about Martus 4.5.

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Literacy Journal Open Source Digital 164

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. And they did.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Produce quality, scalable, documented, maintainable code: ensure the acceptance criteria passes before you are finished. You may be writing components or features from scratch, refactoring code, adding incremental improvements, writing and maintaining technical documentation, writing tests, and fixing bugs.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. For nonprofits, two CMS platforms stand out as the most effective, well-rounded systems for long-lasting websites: WordPress and Drupal. Submit a request for proposal (RFP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

We know that surveillance is a common strategy to monitor and repress the efforts of many social justice groups and often leads to harm for those who document and expose human rights abuses. If you are identified as a rape survivor in many parts of the world, you are likely to experience extreme social stigma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Documentation | Mule ESB Community – an interesting and intriguing data integration tool built on the Java stack. Again, a little peak at what I’ve been up to, reading, and thinking about. SoqlXplorer – a Mac OS X tool for browsing Salesforce.com data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Although that wasn’t an absolute requirement for us, it is most definitely a plus, given so much of our work is implementing open source web tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Although that wasn’t an absolute requirement for us, it is most definitely a plus, given so much of our work is implementing open source web tools.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

CiviCRM CiviCRM is one of the few open-source solutions on the market—which means that the source code of the platform has been made publicly available. Users also report limitations as far as reporting and analytics. This free option helps nonprofits manage their contacts, outreach, events, and more.

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Associations Software Management Module 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). 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.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms. eCommerce sites. That’s what’s true right at this moment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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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. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. Don’t Build That App.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. For Medic , a nonprofit organization with a team that’s spread out across six different continents, Slack serves as their virtual headquarters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 4, 2011

There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. On the proprietary side, there are a number of options, and they fall into three categories: Single-source proprietary custom CMS (from one web shop, or web host).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can centralize your team’s documents, images, videos, and other resources into one accessible location. Dropbox Sign Platform overview: Nonprofits may need to share important documents and agreements, such as employment contracts or conflict of interest policies. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Visit the event Wiki for links to documentation, attendees bios, and links to the applications created after the weekend. We hope by the end of the weekend a number of interesting applications have been born that can be used by any charity under an open source style licence. What we hope to get from the weekend.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Open Source Hardware: can it be done ? Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $. The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. I hope so, and I’m looking forward to see its progress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration. It works for multiple projects. Evernote rocks my world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph? For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 8, 2009

An image that can't be recaptured, or a document you've worked long hours to prepare? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office open source software. Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file? Fortunately, it doesn't have to be a crisis! read more ).

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Files Software Open Source Data 60

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Here are suggestions for a few ways to do this: If your organization’s internal social media content policies and procedures haven’t been documented, document them now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

There is a lot of information there on how to get going, including how to get your document into the right format. It depends on your platform, your budget, and your technology skillset: epub-tools : an open source, command line set of tools for conversion to epub format. that are standard for eBooks.

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