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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

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 Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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Susie's Blog -- A Nonprofit Techie Who Loves Chocolate and Open Source Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It sounds like you're an "accidental techie" - in that you didn't get training to do tech stuff.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. The moderator was Stephan Sonnenberg , Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School.

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

Rowe has a law degree and worked for Creative Commons, though he now works at Freedom for IP , which calls itself "a grass roots organization dedicated to exploring the interaction of Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights.". He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Will this advertising platform alienate users?

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

tax law that cleared the way for this service — ultimately reducing costs, complexity, and duplication of efforts for both grantmakers and their global grantees. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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