Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been fulfilling a definitely different role with nonprofit organizations than most times in the past. In this role, it has been my task to provide advice for organizations around technology choice and vendor selection. I’ve been an intermediary, rather than an implementor.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff. Self-paced learning.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. More often than not, these spaces do not contain or appreciate the perspective of someone that has first-hand knowledge of low income communities of color.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’m not leaving nonprofit technology, though, just this particular role – I expect to stay involved, keep connected, keep prodding and poking, and keep learning. I had decided to leave it two years ago to go to seminary, then, when I left seminary, I picked it up again briefly. I have now realized I need to set it down for good.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Nonprofits can use this software to track fundraising campaign progress or assign roles within a larger project.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

This role is more about providing London's non-profit sector with a for ICT issues and getting policy-makers and funders to recognise that investing in the ICT of non-profit organisations can actually achieve lots of positives - transforming organisations to work smarter and better, better collaboration and information sharing, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I observed her sharing her knowledge with other women at the conference. These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Employee’s job role and current skillset. This results in content recommendations that target gaps in your members’ knowledge. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. Individual’s interests, past activity, experience, goals, and learning styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. This conference is designed to fill in some of those knowledge gaps. re not aware of what???s s out there.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

The Talent Acquisition Partner should have a proven track record of sourcing, screening, and providing a strong pipeline of diverse candidates for Salesforce roles. Experience sourcing passive talent, working with recent college graduates, and facilitating hiring processes is a must.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

participation and knowledge sharing. something together with a variety of open source tools? nonprofits around the world, this session offers practical advice, resources, and recommendations to help you make decisions about the role cloud-based technologies play in your organization's technology. tech-savvy?

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Customize user roles to work collaboratively on projects while managing access to assets. A content library of ready-to-use templates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it? This goes back to my constant refrain – the means are the ends. These resources and tools thus improve equality of opportunity. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Gore envisions nonprofits taking a leading role in the sharing economy, harnessing their creativity and grassroots knowledge to create innovative public/private partnerships and build new platforms. ” Erin Morgan Gore highlights this potential in her article, Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Just as Franklin Roosevelt’s policy initiatives during the New Deal played an important role in the rapid growth of agricultural and rural electrical cooperatives, new government policy and funding support can change the employment landscape for those most vulnerable to exploitative platform capitalism.

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