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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. That’s today. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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Great reads from around the web on May 6th

Amy Sample Ward

" OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work. "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port. Who’s to Blame for Creating the Digital Ceiling?

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It Takes A Village: Joining and Participating in the WordPress Community

Byte Technology

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. Get personal.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection.

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