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 ). 3 Beth 12.01.06

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

As someone who travels frequently, often alone to crowded places where one must exercise a high level of caution, losing my laptop or phone is something I think about a lot. TrueCrypt is a free and open-source tool that makes it relatively easy to encrypt your data, using encrypted volumes. Software encryption is your friend.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

The most famous example of the 6-word exercise is Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" – a tale of loss. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. 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. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

The staff at Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I lead, recently came together to answer this question: “What values define our identity and drive our work?” It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.” This post originally appeared on CSRwire Talkback.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It was my first time using Tableau, so in the interest of time I also used R and RStudio, free open-source analysis packages, to clean and arrange the data. This combined data became the data source for the visualization exercise. The Data Source View. I started by connecting to the "Text File."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I went through a similar exercise in January ( [link] ) and noticed a few major benefits of symfony over cake: - the database integration is a huge timesaver - symfony makes it easy to write tests for your app 2 Scott T. at 6:56 pm Top 10 blog posts of 2008 :: Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.26.08

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