Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

In A Nonprofit's Guide to Building Simple, Low Cost Websites , we share tools and ideas for building a simple, attractive website without breaking the bank. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Check out the wiki. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

The project took a short break to catch its collective breath, and Beth has some thoughts and ideas that came out of that conference call. Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. A quick Google search of Raspberry Pi projects produces a long list of ideas. Power source. hardware open source' For educators, though, there are tutorials and projects that are a bit more practical.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. They got some interesting nominations and have identified the top three winners : * Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response. Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And if the ideas he suggests for bringing Excel fully into the new age were actually done by Microsoft (fat chance) that would make it even better. A lot of the goodness is inherent in the idea of a spreadsheet, right back to VisiCalc. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. What Is Web 2.0? social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. Google Maps. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. You might not know your way around an API, but if you love the idea of making government information more accessible, there are other ways to get involved with Sunlight Labs. Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 12:39 pm Integrated CRM and CMS is a really interesting idea.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

Within minutes of posting the question, I received five ideas: 1. NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. wakot of everyday sustainable suggested I contact Karen Henke of Nimble Press for ideas. Pretty cool, huh?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. As we explain on our About page, we're out to bust some silos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware, Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wiki's to Google Earth and Twittter. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. What a great team-building and healthy idea! It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together! In other news: Arif Mamdani is the new Executive Director of the Progressive Technology Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. " So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. I have one blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. " (If you're trying to figure out your fall schedule for tech events, try here for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 The " OpenItUp " blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. Technology for Good Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. and asking for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

" Allan Benamer discloses that it was his idea, and implemented with some help from Deborah Finn. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Please feel free to contribute non-profit technology tips and ideas by commenting on blog entries. open source. Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 tools more effectively. Currently I am the primary blog writer. Read more about this blog.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The public sites have already collected over 800 new ideas and will continue to until at least through March 19, 2010. At Forum One, we are passionate about the open government initiative currently underway. A select group of these ideas are provided below. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea].

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. All of the project ideas and virtual creations will be shared under a Creative Commons license, so the content truly is open to all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. And that’s good thing for solving complex social problems with innovative ideas. Holly Ross created a page over at the WeAreMedia wiki summarizing the posts and links.

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