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. m open to any suggestions about what I should be reading! Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

However, we have yet to come to grips with what is ethical and what the laws should be in relation to rapidly changing technologies. This post originally appeared on the blog of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'' (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Through this R&D Center, we are working to revolutionize the availability of accessible images and tactile graphics by targeting standards and developing open source tools that help close the gap between what technology can do automatically and what requires expert human work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

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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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Peter Campbell is currently the Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending the earth.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them. Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

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? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Silona is organizing a Code-A-Thon that will lock up 100 programmers for 48 hours to see what kind of open source software can be written for non-profits. It's taking place on October 13th at 6:00 p.m. to October 15th at 6:00 p.m. at tek republik in Austin, Texas. Here's the reason why behind the event.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What I saw, introducing it to two law firms, was that the resistance faded quickly once the system was in place, and users had such better tools to find and work with their documents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. I earned a bachelor of law from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2003. He recently started a " Khlog " or Khmer Language blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. The University of Chicago Law School is a great example of instructions for listeners. Consider creating a pamphlet or handout with instructions on how to find and subscribe to the podcast.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. And, if not, you can always sign up for the FlipVideo Spotlight Program camera giveaway.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

The Seven Benetech Truths: Social Change Through Technology We Get Stuff Done Right Stuff Right Open Over Proprietary Partnership Over Going Alone Value Flexibility Personal and Professional Development Social Change Through Technology Benetech is about social change first and foremost. Respecting the law. We value transparency.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.” This is not a time to be proprietary,” Soward tells Said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2017

The danger is amplified even more so for people living in oppressive contexts; there the law of the land does not offer protection to people whose social behavior differs from the norm. This puts vulnerable people even more at risk, especially female survivors of violence. About the Author. Images: Chayn. spanhidden.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

The book is " The Wealth of Networks ", by Yochai Benkler, who is a professor at Yale Law School. I think I’m liking the book so much because it’s an amazing combination of some of my favorite things: technology, law and economics. (No, It’s available at that link in a multitude of forms. Be Helpful.

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