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Diversity and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It comes out of Kirrily Robert’s keynote at OSCON about women and open source. of open source communities. Some open source communities are more diverse than others. Kirrily has a set of really good guidelines for open source communities: Recruit diversity. That’s a good question.

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Diversity and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It comes out of Kirrily Robert’s keynote at OSCON about women and open source. of open source communities. Some open source communities are more diverse than others. Kirrily has a set of really good guidelines for open source communities: Recruit diversity. That’s a good question.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway!

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Bullet Journaling for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Among the habits you might want to track: daily exercise, daily sleep hours, not eating lunch in front of your computer, checking email only twice a day, counting how much water you drink, writing morning pages, etc. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community.

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My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. D7: We chose a CRM, we are two months into our data migration project, and we are just now figuring out that some data fields won’t translate to the CRM. A data migration is not an exercise in maintaining bad data practices.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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