Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Anyone interested?

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about open source technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Text-to-Give and custom smartphones App vendors are still relatively expensive, but there are many free or low-cost mobile website and group texting vendors out there today. The Mobile Web is not the Next Big Thing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

The 2nd Annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is just one week away. Where: Everywhere via phone and web. Come out and hang out with Women Who Tech. You’ll find us in Washington , DC , NYC , San Francisco, Atlanta , and London so save the date and come get your tech on with us. When: May 12, 2009. Questions, comments?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

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

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Tech Talk at SXSW.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 15th).

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

The templates are clean and streamlined and all crafted by an outside group of web design professionals, meaning the aesthetics remain up-to-date with current trends. The post Success By Design: Choosing the Right E-Commerce Platform appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) It’s a great idea, I think.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2009

I went to some interesting sessions on Ubercart, Organic Groups, and a BoF on Drupal in churches (where I wondered about the theological spectrum, and guessed was populated mostly by evangelicals.) Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. you can have private groups. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. But hopefully that will change. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. There are both proprietary and open source LMS.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! In their most recent Best of the Web, Idealware's Laura Quinn recommended the NPR piece: A Click Too Far: Why Using Social Media Isn't That Great for Fundraising. Communications and Marketing.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Big news: The 2nd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is coming up on May 12th via phone and web! Where : Everywhere via phone and web. Women and Open Source. Tech Marketing in a Recession. Tech Marketing in a Recession. Innovation and Tech Career Reinventio . Feel free to join our Facebook group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ). an integration of PloneFormGen with Salesforce.com for web-to-lead forms, etc. an integration of PloneFormGen with Salesforce.com for web-to-lead forms, etc. Tags: CRM salesforce Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS plone. an event management product that connects with Salesforce.com.

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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. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. And, of course, nonprofits should be especially keen on being able to keep control of their data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I’m involved in the evangelism action group. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# So, I’m evangelizing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. And it’s been a combination of sheer joy, and sheer frustration.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The topic was bullet journaling and the table host was nonprofit tech colleague Ma’ayan Alexander. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. For me, BuJo makes time management and planning more enjoyable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# It looks to be a joint venture by a group of nonprofit-focused for-profits, none of which I’ve heard of (which doesn’t mean a thing, really.) I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2 at blogged.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What can we say about the open source packages? There are only three in this race: CiviCRM (web) Organizer’s Database (desktop) and MPower Open (client/server). And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 I like the interface better, and the social part of the bookmarking is actually a lot better done (they have groups, as well as contacts.) to Ma.gnolia. But some comments on the whole phenomenon.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Peterborough, Canada: Tech for Social Good. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Austin, TX: Austin 501 Tech Club & Netsquared Happy Hour. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

On day one, we also hosted a group of 14 nonprofit executives at the Soho House in New York City. They shared valuable insights that addressed the many challenges nonprofits are facing around smart tech adoption, content strategy, change management, and leadership.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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