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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I have no inside knowledge about what the merged company will look like. Software alone seldom gets the job done. It could also open the door to an open source project.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

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. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing.

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He then pulled the data into an open source network analysis software called Gephi which produced a network map that he reviewed to help guide engagement and source discovery. There are even simpler technology tools to use to map your professional network. Think about your current work.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

David Wiley's keynote was on the social returns from a new venture he helped create, Flat World Knowledge. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

NTEN

Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms. Community Blogs.

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