Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Movable Type goes Open Source December 13, 2007 This is old news, sort of. They are really putting their money where their mouth is, in terms of working toward more openness. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change? Brand career hiring job nonprofit open source recruiting social enterprise social entrepreneur tech4good VP of Engineering'

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

The work environment in the Kindful offices is collaborative, communicative, challenging, yet supportive. Skills and Experience We are building complex software, which will be used in different environments, by many users with different goals, with different data. This is a full-time, on-site position in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Each area describes the project idea, type of AI technology and data sources.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 1, 2013

Soapbox Engage is way to take a stand alone front end for donation and event registration forms and easily get its data to Salesforce…a combination of a platform built on the open source CMS Joomla and Salesforce app. With Soapbox Engage you get an environment to build out your forms that is incredibly easy to work with.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

As Salesforce has deepened our commitment to the environment, we’ve also been inspired by our customers who have made sustainability fundamental to their missions with innovative approaches. Below are resources for companies, nonprofits, and education institutions alike to deepen their commitment to the environment: Sustainability Cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Here’s my list of upcoming topics: Has Open Source won or lost, or is the struggle still going on? Updates on Open Content and Copyleft of things other than code that nonprofits might be interested in. Why technology both sucks for the environment, and is good for the environment – how to find the sweet spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The cost of prototyping and deploying new technology tools is now extremely low and data has the potential to accelerate social progress in areas ranging from poverty to human rights, education, health, and the environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Our work has significant impact on users, partners, and the fields of social enterprise, human rights, disability and the environment. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. We honor our commitments to all our stakeholders. 3 We do the right stuff right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

Totally Rocking Your Development Environment - also covered mostly stuff I knew, but I did learn a few tips (and also learned a little from my next door neighbor. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. But I did learn a few tricks I didn’t know, so it was useful. It was a good talk.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The support and inspiration I found here in the vision field made today’s Benetech possible: our nonprofit organization that now works in other fields as well, fields like human rights, the environment and volunteerism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments. Benetech will of course continue the software and technology development that is the primary focus of our Human Rights Program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The digital storytelling approach powerfully illustrates all that NRDC has accomplished—from landmark legislation to practical changes that benefit the environment and local communities every day—to inspire audiences to support its work into the future and continue to grow its impact. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. The device can also be plugged into solar power chargers, making it well-suited for fieldwork or rural environments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great web development environment, of course. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. And the funny thing about using Windows is that I have now noticed how much work I used to have to do to make sure things were going to work with my Mac.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

So, look for opportunities to be a catalyst, supporting an environment for the community to help itself. As it turns out, the community knows far more about itself than you do (unless you are actually part of that community, of course!). Looking at deeper or wider can be more exciting than just new.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack?

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack?

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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. Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

John Lyman from Google.org laid out three key themes in deploying technology products in the developing world: Remember the context and environment in which you are using technology. Unlike "digital natives," "digital immigrants" interact with technology differently and we must account for that.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

A social media environment that maximizes WidgetBox for optimal customization. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Additions: Photos, email notifications, email blasts, and calendaring features.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. These folks do astonishing work.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. * The project includes an editable database of information on power plants, fuel sources and CO2 footprints ? Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. * The project includes an editable database of information on power plants, fuel sources and CO2 footprints ? Global Energy Observatory ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to. Sheesgeeky will include women working in: Open Source. s presence in our industry leads to more opportunity, a more supportive and civilized environment and better technology goals for all. learn from each other - professional skill sharing.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Lose the training wheels – If the site was developed in a staging or beta environment, make sure there are no absolute paths to the earlier staging url. Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. www.cnn.com vs. cnn.com). Schedule backups – Don’t lose your data!

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