Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. that are standard for eBooks. Here’s a nice, short guide. ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

James Young, writing on Convio’s newish blog, Connection Cafe , talks about how to find, and create, influencers. What are “influencers?&# SOX First, which is a new blog to me, and focuses on Sarbanes-Oxely compliance, asks whether nonprofits hold the ethical high ground. Their answer: they may well be losing ground.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa. Just Recovery Gathering , April 9-11: Join 350.org

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Influencer marketing is the latest craze in marketing, for good reason. The best marketing campaigns aim to influence culture. Join the open source culture. Partner with your community. It means getting organic, word-of-mouth buzz about products from people who others listen to. The great news is that you don't need to.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Long-time users of Twitter are concerned about hate and harassment after Elon Musk recently acquired the company, as some accounts that were previously banned for violating the platform’s content policies are now reinstated.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2011

GreenPeace recently launched VW: The Dark Side , a Star Wars-influenced environmental campaign that encourages you to join the Rebellion and become a Jedi. Treesaver is a new, open source web platform that uses HTML5 to create narrative experiences with text, words, and pictures. They definitely sparked a conversation (or two)!

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget. Additional Reading. Alternatives to Ning Document.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

What my colleagues and friends do has influence. And what did I do with the influence of colleagues and friends? (Although I do have to admit its fun to know what a very old friend is listening to on Pandora.) What have I learned in all of this? I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2011

At a time when open source technology is exploding in the government sector, it is with great pleasure that we announce the official launch of the ictQATAR web redesign ! The site debuted in early April after a global effort between ictQATAR communications staff and the Forum One team.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Togetherness: The dream of the Web is a model maps our influence and values to appropriate collective action that has reached its tipping point. Ignite Presentation.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Tags: Influence Collaboration Data & Visualizations Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

It is heavily influenced by the writings of Clay Shirky ( Here Comes Everybody ). The paper gives this definition: "Wikis and other social media are engendering new, networked ways of behaving - ways of working wikily - that are characterized by principles of openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Tattlr - "open source" says Gordon Dymowski on MetroShrink. influencers retweet you and how much this increases the radius of your. Radian 6 - "Data-centric" says Gordon Dymowski on MetroShrink. Spredfast - mentioned by Mazarine Treyz on Wild Woman Fundraising. Twitter account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Like much else about the era, maybe it was just too early. The tools are now there.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Built upon open-source tools, open standards, and best practices, this panel will highlight practical examples of initiatives from private, public and government sectors.". The Future of Influence Saturday, March 13 at 11:00 AM - "The ability to share online has allowed consumers to control and filter the web.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Like much else about the era, maybe it was just too early. The tools are now there.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. Michelle Martin has some thoughts on digital identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

I also love that they are opening the site in short iterative stints so that they can continue adapting the platform as they learn how people are using it. Maybe they'll open source the platform at some point so that anyone could use the system to play out their own what ifs. machines) for informal learning environments?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

In my first year, we launched an informal Partner Advisory Council — a forum where partners across our community could share feedback directly with us and influence the way we developed products and engaged with customers.

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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. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

It would also influence the number of potential customers that access your site [.] It almost seems like a more open source approach - allowing a key community to provide guidance and insight into tech development to allow them to better access software and hardware tools. from Palak Timbadiya via Linkedin.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

And who may be able to influence those actors in their decision-making? open source. Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Micro-philanthropy. net2mashup. New releases. NPC Carnival.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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