Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. It turns out I was at the epicenter of the Linked Open Data community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We are a nonprofit technology company serving the unserved, tackling important challenges that the private sector cannot by developing content, products and services to effect social change. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

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. Currently she manages corporate venture capital partnerships at Elemental Excelerator, a climate tech growth accelerator based in the Pacific.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop).

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

You may already be familiar with Idealware , one of the best tech resources in the nonprofit community. Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits. Tags: Acquiring Technology News Software Tech Planning. It’s hard to even know what exists, let alone what is best for you.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Victoria, Canada: Storie­s from the Rare Sightings of Women in Tech. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Upcoming Events. Thursday, September 25, 2014.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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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. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. These things are far from the fault of Linux. Where is Linux not a good idea?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Net Tuesday & 501 Tech Club Affinity Group Meeting. More knowledge, confidence and excitement about organizing in your city. It’s time to go back to basics and figure out how to effectively organize. Sessions and Events. Sunday, April 26. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm. Takeaways: A chance to connect with other local organizers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge. I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. This results in content recommendations that target gaps in your members’ knowledge. How effective these elements are at improving the learners’ performance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. Webstats alone do not tell the story and to look at them without some knowledge about what we do and how we do it, is silly, as even Allan would concede.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Our intern Jessica Hass is working on a low-tech version that will be in the physical museum and will invite visitors to “vote” for their favorite out of around 20-30 possible replacements. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Benetech, founded nearly two decades ago, has a mission to take the technology and knowledge Silicon Valley has figured out and move it into the nonprofit sector. At the time, Benetech had recruited area nonprofits to participate in four design teams: one on governance, one on funding, one on vision, and one on cost accounting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Achieving scale usually leads to sustainability: when we demonstrate that a new Benetech solution is far more effective than the status quo, we can usually find a way to finance that innovation for the future. Effective: figuring out what the right thing is to do. Open Over Proprietary We’re an open source organization.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

The most competitive candidates will have the ability to promote Cloud for Good’s #BestTeamEver employer brand and ensure we have the absolute best people on our team. Location: ?Virtual: Virtual: Home-based office in the US or Canada Travel: ?Maximum

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first jobs in tech 1,000 years ago was as “Text Production Lead” on a music encyclopedia CD-ROM (Google it, kids). While the data shows which programs are most effective, Geoff Zimmerman from Strive didn’t foresee this being used punitively against less effective programs. I would have saved the world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. Tips for Effective Tagging from TechSoup.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Some operations teams use a log book to keep staff updated on the activities of the previous day, but too many rely on word-of-mouth and lose the opportunity to document institutional history and convey knowledge from staff member to staff member. SocialText is best for highly tech-literate folks who want to customize their own experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 A service of Tech Impact , npCloud is a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure all nonprofits can use cloud-based technology to better serve their communities. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s e-Newsletter.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. As more and more users have come to rely on these online services, synergistic “network effects” have added both value and profitability to several dominant platform companies.

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