Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. at 12:24 pm Scaling isn’t such a big issue with DokuWiki anymore. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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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. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

His newest project is Open Source Cinema. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. This film is open source - and thats why I created. Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Brett Gaylor is a amazing!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2014

Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change? Brand career hiring job nonprofit open source recruiting social enterprise social entrepreneur tech4good VP of Engineering'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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MAY 24, 2010

It's the holy grail of social network connectivity - you are connected to who you are connected to, no matter what site you are on&# , said Michelle Murrain of Open Issue. In the past couple of weeks, these college students have raised over $100K , mainly in response to the revolt against Facebook’s privacy policy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Other innovation includes Gift Refunds for the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), which ensures Nonprofits are able to more easily issue full refunds for gifts and record those refunds for accounting purposes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

That’s why we were excited to participate in the Skoll Foundation’s second annual Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge , a fundraising campaign committed to strengthening the capacity of organizations like ours to accelerate impact on some of the most critical issues of our time. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Programming languages and I have issues. The culture of the Ruby and Rails world, the open source, community-driven, gift economy meritocracy, is very different than the Salesforce.com world – proprietary, business oriented, certifications-focused world. I have yet to manage to pick one early.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

That’s why hunger is such a complex and urgent issue. We invite you — our community of nonprofits, schools, partners, and employees — to submit the issues preventing food security that we can address together. Please submit your ideas on what issue you think is worth addressing to end hunger. Opens new window.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

And in recent years, CMSs have been divided into two main categories—the “Open Source” and “Proprietary: systems—because, as is so true on the Internet of today, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. And indeed, the distinctions between the two platforms are important to know before embarking on a website design initiative.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

On one hand, the technology issues I cover are well covered elsewhere. There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. But the time has come for me to stop. Mostly, it’s because I’ve run out of things to say.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

Truth is, it wasn’t really a choice for me – I’ve got using and contributing back to open source projects in my DNA somehow. Integrations with Views and Actions are also moving being considered (it’s instructive to look at the issues queue ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

We uphold our vision by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. Cindy Lackow, a senior Salesforce consultant with Fíonta, pinpointed four existing issues that needed to be addressed with the new system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

For large enterprises, the activities of the big players is a much more immediate and important set of issues to deal with. It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system.

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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. Now the security issue. David Geilhufe, who also takes issue with the security metric, has some good points. More on that in a bit. But Plone was just that much better.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

If you already have a fully-developed website and you’re considering whether to switch CMS platforms, you must verify that a new platform will actually be the best way to solve the issues you’re facing. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. If you read other blogs, what are the most useful ones for nonprofit/VSC technology issues. m going to fail on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. .

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

They most definitely don’t want other competing organizations in their community to learn about their issues, as it would show weakness and could impact their competitive advantage. One day, a few of the team members told me about issues they were seeing among some of their sister agencies.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Want to know the number one reason WordPress sites get hacked as well as the number one reason users experience compatibility issues? Also, using too many plugins can result in performance and security issues, so keep only what you absolutely need and dump the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I was especially interested in the issue of mobile data collection. (I Thanks to MobileActive.org and the Open Mobile Consortium for a fabulous event. Tags: CRM Mobile Nonprofit Tech Open Source Open Standards civicrm nptech opensource. The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. I learned a ton.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards. When using publicly available AI tools—either as a building block in a larger system or in and of itself—it is important to look for a model card so that you can better understand its limitations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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