Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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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

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.) We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Spending two days working on brainstorming "process" and beginning a few technology projects, the group was able to set up a framework that could be deployed when an actually emergency arose. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

" The deliberate style of technology work known as the "waterfall approach" (first solidify strategy, then requirements, then design, etc.) has been countered by " agile development ," wherein the team works on incremental pieces of a project with a general roadmap but no "done" point.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake. We outlined an approach on the wiki ?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

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. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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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. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 build it and they will come???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Lux Mean works for the IRI. 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. How did you start working with Cambodians on technology training projects? His english language blog can be found here. Keo Kalyan.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 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 I work with Bonasources Wild Apricot marketing team. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. open source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. Freecharity.org.uk

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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. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Working from home provides amazing freedom, but with that freedom can come isolation. Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). at 5:53 am BuddyPress is amazing… but it lacks wiki’s and document sharing… which are two massive shortcomings for it’s use as a sharing and collaboration network for organizations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s the simplest tool I‘ve found to add a caption to an image to make an Internet meme. It apparently works in Windows 7, but not Windows 8 as yet. is a free open source application. Since I’m familiar with InDesign, it was pretty intuitive to start working with the application. to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! Happy Birthday to drupal !

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. Sounds fun right? helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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