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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Example Tweet: Nice use of Animoto by United Cerebral Palsy: [link] || #nonprofit. I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. Example Tweet: 130 Foundations That Tweet: [link] || #philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

He gave some sweet examples of it’s use (like teamsugar.com ) which is amazing, and made me totally rethink using Elgg. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. Organic Groups - since I haven’t personally implemented OG, I didn’t know a lot about the innards, and how it really works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations? " I'm sure we could find a few examples in America and elsewhere. Here's an example.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. That’s a good thing. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. Deborah Finn throws in her two cents here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM - the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) Tags: opensource CRM Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) You install CiviCRM inside your CMS installation directory, and the CMS and CiviCRM talk to each other through PHP APIs (or “hooks&# ) (there are some examples of database calls across the CMS/CRM).

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. The Wild Apricot Blog has published a nice list of ten examples of how nonprofits can use Facebook. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2010

(The fact that I had the opportunity to write that sentence is itself an example of the power of Drupal!). Or you may be looking for a CMS platform for your next web site, and giving Drupal a hard look -- and not just because it's free and open source, but that helps, right? Tags: drupal NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. NTEN is People!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

It is, in fact, a great example of integration of a CMS and a CRM. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools. Tags: Data blackbaud CRM Software Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech. More on those later.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

To illustrate this, we will draw upon the high-profile example of 17-year-old Yannis Carayannopoulos, also known as the “YOLO streaker.” In September 2012, Jason led a team to create Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text message reminders. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The paper is a must read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Most examples we have of successful IT practices would likely fail in a nonprofit context, though. Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. Proper use of open source software can make systems easier to expand and integrate with others.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. HTML EXAMPLE Image: NetSquared : Tannis Sullivan / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re holding monthly events that are gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I’ll include you in the next community calendar! Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. HTML EXAMPLE. NOTE: this is using multi-markdown, which BBedit.app doesn''t recognize, but Marked.app does.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? What are the 3-5 best blogs by UK folks writing about nps, social change, or nptech that you read regularly?

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NTEN

JUNE 15, 2009

I love that it's open source, open API, and all kinds of other open. Maybe they aren't AS open as All for Good, but wouldn't working with the existing sites to make them more open have been more productive? We have so many great examples of the wisdom of our crowd being harnessed to make great change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

The presentation is excellent -- I like how they defined blogs and gave many examples -- I just combed through the blog definition and selected a few below, but the presentation is well worth reading through the slides. Thank you Ruby and Brian (and congratulations on your upcoming open source wedding ! Technorati Tag: nptech.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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