Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Dr. Patrick Ball, who has led our Human Rights Program since 2003, now heads HRDAG as its Executive Director and Dr. Megan Price, formerly a senior statistician at Benetech, has joined Patrick as the organization’s Co-Founder.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Good specs, cheap price. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Vertical Response : 10,000 emails per month free for 501c3s. After 10,000 emails, prices are reasonable. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Email is a critical channel.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

At the end of 2020, internet browsers phased out Adobe Flash and many organizations needed to adjust their courses accordingly. This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Absorb Create.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

And this is a bad thing for the many small organizations that have been using eTapestry for reasonable prices (or free). Fewer choices means less competition, which means that prices will likely rise. Remember that as good and open and free as Salesforce is, it also can be acquired, and nothing is guaranteed.)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2017

Many of the Internet's biggest communications platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, have implemented this more secure form of logging in. It's also free, developed by a nonprofit, and open source, so you can feel confident that there aren't any backdoors in the software. Get Signal ; free; iOS and Android.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Vertical Response : 10,000 emails per month free for 501c3s After 10,000 emails, prices are reasonable. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 e-Newsletter [see right column]. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. Thus, the journal has a fee, although we’ve done our best to make the personal rate much lower than the organizational one and in no case are we anywhere near some of the stratospheric prices of many mainstream journals. Below is his response.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. e-Newsletter.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Offer custom ticket prices or registration levels. The new venue is just the internet! Here are the popular tools you might look into: OBS is a free and open-source software that can be used for video recording and livestreaming. Supporters wearing your merch are basically free advertising!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. Both types of cloud data services are experiencing prices wars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. e-Newsletter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I got involved in green coworking, being here in Citizen Space and trying to bring some of the green values that I promote on my Internet sites into actual practice here in the work place. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. 36 Farmers can begin using the site for free, and commissions on food sales are very low. What’s not to like?

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