Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.” We depend on an intellectual property system that works and is friendly to innovation. We call this building the last “social mile.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Register now for TechSoup's "Story of an Open Source Library" webinar, this Thursday at 11 a.m. This webinar will cover specific open source tools (some of which you may not have heard of before!) that work well for libraries and the benefits and challenges associated with their use. Pacific time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about open source technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08 Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08 Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Voice recognition makes working with and navigating the web more accessible. Would you be willing to donate a recording of yours?

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Blog: [link].

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. And then, we want the kitchen sink.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. Our goal is to make it far easier for groups that work with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential. We’re very excited about Martus 4.5.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Have questions about how it all works? Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

They suspected they could significantly increase their visability by posting content for free on the internet - but this would destroy their sustainability. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. In many cases, the training data is curated from the internet, with all the prejudices and biases of the humans creating it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. Find out more about this here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. I also emailed Dirk Slater to find out what he knew about this project: Its really interesting how Open Source is taking off because of localization issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Article in TechSoup by Henry Kumagai " What Will Tiered Internet Access Mean for NPOs. Neutraility Now! Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. People believe in the internet. The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2010

In my daily life, Git has 2 major advantages: version control and comparison of versions even when I’m not connected to the internet (you have your own actual repository, not just a working copy), and its speed. It takes less time to clone a whole repository of code than it does to check out a working copy using CVS or SVN!

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Not so with the behemoth of the Internet, WordPress. If you need more proof that it’s here to stay, consider this: many of the world’s top site designers now work exclusively with WordPress, which means the professionals trust it undeniably, and so should you. An Open Book. Money Talks.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. How It Works: Crowdsourcing.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Tech professionals and Internet security specialists call out four main reasons why keeping WordPress updated at all times is important: security, performance, bug fixes and compatibility. Obviously, for most of us, security is of paramount importance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

Almost anyone from the human rights field will tell you that the work can be as rewarding as it is challenging. and work often with people in miserable conditions (yes, in both places!); Why You Do Want this Job: All the above.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public. Thank you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

One of the communities that inspired this development - Planetwork has held a vision for how these emerging open standards could be used for social change. As the large companies pile in to shape what evolves it would be great to have significant participation from those working from a civil society perspective.

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