Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. The internet is not new. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. It is a must download! FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Download the Reset the Net Privacy Pack. These open source tools include apps and tools for encrypting emails, texts, browsing history, and even phone calls. The Internet Defense League provides the code and some tools for adding the banner. apps surveillance open source security mobile apps privacy data'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. But I will say this: that doesn’t matter. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? 2 film fan 09.16.08

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I popped in my Fiesty Fawn (Kubuntu 7.04) CD that I’d burned from a downloaded ISO, and rebooted. It booted fine. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

You can download your mobile list from TextMarks if you every decide to move to another vendor. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection. TextMarks Dashboard. FrontlineSMS :: Free for Nonprofits, Software, No Ads, Intermational.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. Outside of the US, OpenOffice.org adoption is growing fast. I imagine that will begin to happen here as well. (In Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

As someone I talked with today said, “with dial up, the internet feels broken.&# As you can see, the download speed is fine, the upload speed is positively zippy compared to what they say it’s supposed to be. Someone else said that it would be good for designers to be forced to live with dial up for a while. Be Helpful.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

Fortunately, the internet is full of marketing materials that you can download and customize to suit your organization’s needs. WordPress is a popular website designing and content management system that can help you get blog posts going or just give you a simple Internet presence. Welcome to the world of templates!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) at 6:12 pm Having spent a little bit of time to download MPower, I have to say I’m underwhelmed. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I downloaded the brand-spanking new nvidia drivers, so that I’d be ready to deal with such a high resolution. With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { at 9:41 pm Linux desktops? 6 Brian 03.01.08 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media.    It also includes tips and resources for developing an Internet Strategy sharing content on mobile phones , and an email strategy.  

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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. I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

It works pretty well (at this moment, I’m now downloading and installing the base system.) They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The Internet can be a confusing place, and often Internet concepts, like coding a website, may seem complicated and overwhelming. This file structure is telling your computer: go into Users , open the folder sarahlesh , and then in that folder open mywebsite.html. You can watch her full, in-depth presentation.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. The following were both collaboratively edited by dozens of people across the internet: Alternatives to Ning Spreadsheet. Go forth, and socialize!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

The Internet has a proven ability to shift the balance of power between individuals and organizations. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Tuesday, April 28. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. TechSoup Global Talk Backs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. If LocalFreeWeb sounds familiar, it's because this service for finding free Internet access was at the previous Caravan breakfast. Referral Services. LocalFreeWeb. Helpful Tools. Shot Gun Messenger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). Beth Kanter has been doing some great coverage of the emerging fields of blogging, podcasting and vlogging (she has a fabulous linkroll of blogging how-to’s on her blog.) Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Here are my slides from the presentation. Social Media in Disaster Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download. The project uses a tool named, STEVE, an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Think of it as TiVo ® for Social Media on the Internet: People can get precisely what content they want, whenever they want it. Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. Marketing and Distribution.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2009

When most people hear the word Mozilla, they think of the popular open source browser, Firefox and the plug-ins that help many of us to do our daily work on the web. Those of us who work with web technologies everyday often forget about the barriers that people in our local communities face using and accessing the Internet.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. Sam Heywood: Convio Open is more than a product or service, its a whole paradigm shift in the way we serve nonprofits and meet our commitment to enable nonprofits to leverage the Internet to engage constituents.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers! It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

You Don’t Need Just a Website, You Need the Web Designed by Derek Low | Network for Good powered by Groundspring Fundraising Track - Franciscan B Every nonprofit needs a website but a website can’t be your only Internet presence. How should non-profits think about integrated Internet campaigns?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel. Natalie: Its really about numbers as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Can import other sources well. with increased bandwidth, going with a higher bit rate is going to have a higher value, people are still able to stream it or download it, and store it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

Before you start downloading and setting up accounts, keep the following in mind. Many of the Internet's biggest communications platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, have implemented this more secure form of logging in. It was developed by The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to internet privacy.

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