Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook the last frontier? I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. So we’ll see how it works. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 4, 2012

The Average Facebook & Twitter Communities Grow by 30% and 81%, respectively. Facebook Pages and 1.2 The Average Cost of a Facebook Like is $3.50 The Average Value of a Facebook Like is $214.81 The Average Value of a Facebook Like is $214.81 Facebook Advertising is Used Primarily to Meet Non-Fundraising Goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off. Also, of course, lots of people are beginning to say – go where the people are, which is increasingly Facebook. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool. 8) Diaspora: Diaspora is a Facebook alternative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Social Snap – add simple social share buttons to your pages and posts that are customizable: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Mix, and Instagram; display amount of total shares and likes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. And I’ll be Google+ing (rather than Tweeting, which is mostly for my writing , or Facebooking, which is friends/family) interesting Tech and NPTech topics as they come along and are discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, turned to Facebook messenger bot when the organization’s 1.5 It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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MAY 3, 2015

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? What exactly does that mean? — Russ Feldman (@russforce) April 21, 2015. I did think it would be more).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

techPresident – Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! My mom friended me on Facebook last week - we've formally entered the Information Age. Crowdsourced!: Crowdsourced!My But despite my mom's online habits (and the empirical evidence it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.) And I use hashtags in blog entries!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? 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. What do you think?

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MAY 24, 2010

When Facebook launched their Open Graph API last month they thought they had revolutionized their platform. They certainly did not expect some of its own users to organize international boycotts like Quit Facebook Day or petitions by some of the largest grassroots organizations like MoveOn and the ACLU.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. New technologies, the web, Web 2.0 Well, Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, the platform is open-sourced, meaning anyone and everyone can contribute to it in the form of updates, new themes, and custom plugins that help create more functionality and give the program greater versatility and, in turn, greater popularity. Join a Facebook Group.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Installing Force for Facebook – developer.force.com. Again, a little peak at what I’ve been up to, reading, and thinking about. You can also see what I’ve been reading by looking at my shared items on my google profile. Small Business CRM | BatchBook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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JULY 4, 2017

Facebook aficionados will love that the social media site can automatically detect an image from your articles when they’re shared, but sometimes it doesn’t pick the right image. Now you know that the image Facebook picks up and displays is the one you want and not something inappropriate.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Here’s Carie Lewis explaining how the Humane Society attracted one million Facebook fans ; in another post, Jeff Achen describes the role social media played when GiveMN raised $16.3 Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

When it comes to options that can really help you sell on your site, WordPress—as open source software—puts lots of additions at your fingerprints from third party developers. WooCommerce however will require you to find a host, and that will cost more money down the road.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 2 admin 01.04.08

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JULY 16, 2021

Facebook Live uses a variation of this. . Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program). OBS is an application-based, open-source software platform for broadcasters that allows for simple video editing functionality in real-time. . RTMPS: RTMP streaming which uses secure streaming on an SSL connection.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) However, these issues don’t apply in the same way to nonprofits who have an organizational presence on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS®

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. As for this project, with the limited time frame, I have limited the social network integration to Facebook and Twitter. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. Don’t Build That App.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

So the lessons: 1) If you are embarking on a custom development project (such as a case management, for example) exhaust every possible option of using and customizing/modifying existing tools (Salesforce, CiviCRM, SugarCRM, other open source tools) before you begin to consider custom development from scratch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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