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Tools I use: basic workflow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. It works for multiple projects. Evernote rocks my world.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Eating my own dogfood. It sometimes tastes yucky.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Open source projects do get better. Be Helpful.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP). A 3D graphic test on paper substrate of a circuit diagram.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. They can’t afford a Salesforce developer, nor can they make the additional technology investment, to bring something like this to life and keep it going. Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install.

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example.

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Virtual Worlds for Insurrection and Revolution in Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Compatibility : support for multiple platforms; import/export of standard CAD files; APIs for widely used physics and other engines; firewall co-existence. Legal and Mgmt : open source?; Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive. IP (who owns created objects?);

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