Robert Weiner

JANUARY 23, 2010

The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The prize will award $10,000 to an open-source software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed. Tags: TechSoup. Nominations will be accepted through February 1, 2010.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

This Thursday, the second webinar of the series will be Building the Foundation: Hardware, Software and Networks and we're excited to announce that we have a last-minute addition, special guest star: Allen Gunn from Aspiration. . Allen will add an Open Source Software perspective to John's explanations of hardware, software, and networks. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Nonprofit : Occasionally, you can replace the word “nonprofit&# with “#nonprofit&# in a Tweet, or tag it on to the end of Tweet that mentions a nonprofit or nonprofit trend. fundraising : This hashtag is best used when tagged on to a Tweet that discusses fundraising trends. Tags: Twitter. That said: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2010

The Tides Foundation is accepting nominations for the annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The prize will award $10,000 to an open-source software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed. Tags: Open Source Software. From the announcement: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Tags: challenge fundraising donorschoose interview social media socialbrite video. Please make a donation on the Socialbrite Giving Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

But there is another very important personal reason to purchase the book on June 21st, I’m donating all of the proceeds from my share of the royalties to the Sharing Foundation , a nonprofit that cares for orphans in Cambodia. Tags: Housekeeping Networked Nonprofit. See on you June 21st 1 PDT/4 EDT!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

We’re also seeing a range of creative proposals — for example Paul Lamb’s suggestions including stewardship by open source foundations or social entrepreneur funders, and a NetSquared-type transition campaign. new sources that are specifically focused on global development-related causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

CiviCRM is a free, libre, and open-source software constituent relationship management (CRM) solution. We'll also learn how Jeff Porter is using CiviCRM at the Prader Willi Foundation. Tags: Databases Event Grant-Management Databases Online Seminar. CiviCRM may be a tool that is right for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. And if you???re

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 17, 2009

open source applications for helping make the government more transparent from Sunlight Labs. The report was commissioned by the Vodafone Foundation and is packed with useful case studies and supporting data. Tags: roundup bookmarks. " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

If you know someone who’s been toiling in the open source vineyards, developing software that’s helping nonprofits succeed, check out the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Mary Kern at the University of Toledo Foundation recommended PrimoPDF and TextPad (but noteed that there is a nominal charge to get rid of the nag screen.). Tags: Software.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

Think of it as the structure of a house, where the foundation and skeleton give it shape. Here's the basic structure of a line of HTML code: Opening tag: Content: Following the opening tag, we insert the content we want to present. Closing tag: An example of this would be: Hello! this is a paragraph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. According to the NTEN blog , Salesforce and Salesforce Foundation has released a wiki documenting the nonprofit template.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In cooperation with MTV and The Lemelson Foundation, Youth Venture produced a half-hour documentary on the inventors that's currently making the rounds on MTV in Latin America. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Open Source Services Spotlight Volunteers.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. Tags: Communication Government Transparency Strategy Technology. Here's how: 1. Register for a Sunlight Labs account. Cast your ballot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Darin McKeever from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (and Markets For Good ) was the moderator. 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. Notes from Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” The Luce Foundation Center occupies 20,400 square feet of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s space. The Luce Foundation Center is responsible for selecting the art that will fill the gaps.

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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. Peter Dietz is promoting the use of "sa-topten" tag in del.icio.us million users. and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Adin is right: there are challenges to putting the wisdom of crowds to good use for foundations. But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#. I presented an overview of the Networked Nonprofit framework and shared three stories of networked nonprofits , including The Story of Stuff , Surfrider Foundation , and Pratham Books.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Ellen Miller of Sunlight Foundation. Women and Open Source. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Here are a few of the rockin' women who will be joining us: . Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer. Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum. Natalie Foster of the DNC. Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

This “free” price tag makes Salesforce a service that should seriously be considered by any small to medium nonprofit. It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper. It can be a great resource for those looking for a CRM solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 bounties: [link].

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site was unveiled at an event on Wednesday in Washington by its sponsors, the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. ALEXANDRIA, Va., For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Some of the foundation was built in April 2009, but the majority of the product development started in August 2009. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Moderator Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation got a big laugh when he made the usual polite introductions of one panel’s speakers and summarized by saying, “they have an incredible impact on the world… or maybe they don’t”. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Tags: socap09.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. Nonprofit organizations and foundations are encouraged to submit their videos. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. The winner will be announced at the NTC !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism. Tags: nptech. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain. Nonprofit Social Media Strategists.

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