Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Nonprofits can use this software to track fundraising campaign progress or assign roles within a larger project. WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs. Prices vary based on the hosting provider you choose.

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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. A huge thank you to our launch partners Cloud for Good, Coastal Cloud and Slalom who continue to play a critical role in driving our customer success with this solution. Learn more here. .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Video plays a big role in the success or failure of virtual events. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Be Helpful.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Video plays a big role in the success or failure of virtual events. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. To that end, we co-hosted a panel discussion on the future of human rights technology jointly with Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Employee’s job role and current skillset. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. Hosting a Virtual Conference: Lessons Learned for 2021. Make sure to incorporate these six lessons that we learned from conferences hosted in 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. You can read about the 'web office 2.0' tools I used here 4.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I explained how technology and social media are playing a leading role in innovation in the aid sector and helping to bring relief to earthquake victims in Haiti. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Some of the highlights include: An English/Creole translation iPhone app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Email and social media play a critical role in successful online fundraising, so your e-newsletter opt-in and social network icons should also be prominently featured.

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Plone requires a customized hosting setup (as opposed to a typical Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP environment). Drupal's latest release, 7.0,

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. In what ways have they not? is it a problem that can be solved in any other ways?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

novices are heading to Minneapolis later this week for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), hosted by our friends at NTEN. something together with a variety of open source tools? It's that time of year again! Nonprofit technologists, mavens, and. In this birds of a feather session we discuss tools that.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. While not a full-scale LMS, Easygenerator is an eLearning authoring tool that offers course hosting services for organizations. Easygenerator.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

The scope and scale of the events your nonprofit plans to host matter greatly for the type of event management software you choose. To host these events, you’ll need to find event management software with livestreaming capabilities, remote attendee engagement features, and other elements that make virtual events possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It’s a very straightforward integration.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

AirBnB will allow hosts to donate to local causes; will add smoke detectors, will work on joint campaigns with the city and improve disaster preparedness. We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. cities, Airbnb hosts avoid traditional hotel taxation.) In many U.S.

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