Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Rebecca Arno, describes the use of Floodlight which provides a simple intuitive set of story-building tools to help communities create a visually rich, shareable story that is tagged by subject and geography. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there. To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits. While you're taking advantage of the free shipping, I'd suggest also taking a look at FLOSS Manuals' Lulu store , for great manuals on free and open-source software. Tags: Acquiring Technology News Software Tech Planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

More knowledge, confidence and excitement about organizing in your city. This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Tags: events 09ntc netsquared nten. Clarity on the two monthly events. Monday, April 27.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If data were published in standard formats and schemas, open source projects could arise to interact with the data and give a standard set of tools to developers with great ideas to create new and useful applications. Tags: Government Transparency. Much of this could be done on a shoestring, compared to large IT initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Tags: nptech. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This gives an opportunity for the audience to share their story and their knowledge. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. . PopTech is an.

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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. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint. Humans are trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. I should be answering my email or at least attempting to get my inbox down to zero.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. It’s very basic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? More Flickr Photos here.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Educational Resources: Prioritize builders that provide extensive educational resources, including knowledge bases, video tutorials, webinars, and community forums. SEO and Online Visibility SEO Tools: Prioritize platforms that offer built-in SEO tools, including meta tags, keyword optimization, and sitemap generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

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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? Technorati Tags: 07NTC , intellectualproperty , nptech { 1 trackback } Where Most Needed 04.11.07 Are non-profit companies and people different?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

From my perspective, there are four elements to a technology support process with this as a model: Assessment – where is the client – both in terms of technology knowledge, as well as in terms of what they need at the moment? Be Helpful.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Along the way, we’ll explore ways you can create this content using just an iPhone and some CMS knowledge, making each idea accessible for small-shop nonprofits without a ton of marketing capacity. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Tags: sxsw training materials.

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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. Further, you can categorize and tag elements to reuse them across courses. Mobile-responsive design for all interactive elements.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Some operations teams use a log book to keep staff updated on the activities of the previous day, but too many rely on word-of-mouth and lose the opportunity to document institutional history and convey knowledge from staff member to staff member. For example, here's my Delicious page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. An example of this is the superb open-source freeware database developed by Benetech. called Martus.

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