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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See3

JULY 29, 2009

This afternoon we gave a free webinar showcasing our nonprofit video solution , an open-source video platform that integrates into your organizational and campaign-oriented websites. Just email us at info [at] see3. We wanted to share our slidedeck below. net and we’ll make sure to get you an answer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) If you have detailed info, please feel free to share in the comments. It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. But what about using it to make social change more scalable? That seems a little more elusive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. So if you are reading this and have feedback on how Martus can serve you better, please let us know at info@martus.org. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

Please reach out , or email us at info@CarrSystems.com. It will take longer to implement and requires some custom code, but the performance benefits are almost immeasurable. Got a question about this post?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

You want proprietary or open source software. Whether you want a straightforward, simple password manager or something to help safeguard your personal account info, too. What you want to pay. Password managers: helpful features. Password management software means all your passwords are in one place.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Women and Open Source. I'll send you RSVP info for the after parties, as well. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. Where : Everywhere via phone and web. Comp Tix : Use this link to get comp tix for the TeleSummit: [link]. Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Tools Galore in Online Communications. Video Activism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. Click here for more info on this work, including tool demos. We introduced new formats and new readers to give users not only what they want, but also a choice in how and where they want it. Have an Android device? What if you’re a U.S. Or all three?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Google Analytics is also free. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Kaliya Hamlin pinged me to let me know about She's Geeky -- here's the info from the site. Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to. Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to. Sheesgeeky will include women working in: Open Source.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Test Forms - Test donation and email subcription forms to be sure that funds are processed properly and contact info transfers to your database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t necessarily think Twitter will abuse the info, but you never know what’s happening behind the scenes. BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. 5 Jay 12.18.07 I hope this will help in understanding how it works.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Once I did the research, I knew I couldn't let that info disappear without letting others know about it. I use Wordpress , mainly because it's open source. Yay open source! Thus, the blog. How has your life changed since you started blogging? What blogging tool do you use and why? What are its pros and cons?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's been info overload around here, but that's a good thing! Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. 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

I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not for Info (Win) / double-click (Mac) for the Info pop-up and follow the link to. Not that I've done that yet) Steve Dowding points to suggests following the.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. In our view these ? , such as is done by the UN's ReliefWeb and others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That dog won’t hunt. I believe that a web site will eventually become a major hub of communications even for direct service organizations.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Validation” is really just a technical data management term for “make sure that the info you have is correct.” Update outdated or incorrect information using reliable sources. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that you can download and put to work cleaning up your data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

P.S. Granted this post is a bit old, and cake has matured quite a bit even over such a short period of time, but I figured it’d be nice to share more info for any of your readers. Not to mention the excellent console tools. Yes, I am biased towards cake) :) 8 Kevin 02.19.09 at 8:33 pm Why not use regular mysql_query() for complex joins?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Grameen compiles and crunches the data and delivers vital information back to subsistence farmers via text message - like crop prices and weather info to that help them make the best decisions about their farm and future. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies (TechCrunch). Data Mapping and Visualization.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This came particularly frustrating when I started an Ello account for our web agency @RadCampaign so we could share fun photos and musings related to open source and philanthropy. Here you can input your bio info. You will need to play around with it, particularly if you are working with a logo.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info. DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code. Vote for this Idea]. Social Security Administration.

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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.) Be Helpful.

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