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MARCH 20, 2015

Drupal Day has come and gone, and while the event itself goes by in the blink of an eye, the lessons learned resonate long after the conference ends. drupal Drupal Day Leadership Open Source tech management IT Staff'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

And I’ve spent a lot of time lately trying to figure out what lessons I need to learn from those projects – what can I take away from them so I don’t make the same mistakes again. Recently, though, I had two projects that ended up, for wont of a better term, clusterfracks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

It’s geared toward a for-profit audience, but it certainly has some reasonably useful lessons for nonprofits, and it has been a topic of conversation in the #nptech world today. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? But I’m still bored silly.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

What if the unexpected wasn’t seen as failure but as lessons to be shared? Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an open-source searchable database in which you could enter the idea you were having, say, “community garden,” and up would pop a treasure trove of learning?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. The technology organization designs, deploys, and supports open-source software for health workers providing care in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). Monday 10:30: Open Source CRM session ( David Geilhufe is moderating, yours truly is a speaker). Tuesday 10:30: Open Source CMS (Laura Quinn’s got that one. Sunday evening: Science Fair and reception.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

These experiences offer lessons for organizations of any size to re-imagine what it means to build community online. Built as an open-source Drupal tool, the website attempts to learn what visitors want from the TCWS site and deliver related content over time. Community-building lessons for organizations of any size.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Lessons and Opportunities for Supporting Technology Innovation. To compliment, I shared some of the core beliefs I’ve developed in my experiences working in technology, innovation and community engagement. In the innovation marketplace, adoption is the only currency that matters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

They shared tips and lessons for how to support your organization on its journey of change and digital maturity. Nonprofit Cloud Innovations. Nonprofit Trailblazers also got a peek at the latest nonnprofit innovations from Salesforce and a product roadmap overview during the event.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant…. I've been….

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

." Ushahidi and the Long Tail of Mapping for Social Change | TechPresident – I couldn't agree more with David's post and analysis of DeadUshahidi, a directory of "dead" installations of the open source Ushahidi mapping platform. com of 8 characteristics of Millennials?

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

Speakers will include top thought leaders like Beth Kanter, author and blogger helping nonprofits use networks and social media for social change, Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder of open-source global activism platform Purpose.com, and Allyson Kapin, Blogger-In-Chief of our Frogloop blog and Founder of the online marketing firm Rad Campaign.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

What they're doing, and how they're doing it, are great lessons for our sector. Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. (If The New York State Senate has a Twitter feed. The New York State Senate website is built on Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

While I appreciate that one can, theoretically (I have yet to test it) easily become a “partner&# with either company – but that doesn’t quite count as open. Allan hit the nail on the head when he said: Again, this is a lesson in Web 2.0 transparency both for the sector and the vendors who serve it. Let it go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

″, 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. Do you have any lessons learned or stories you can share with other social entrepreneurs? What else are you working on?

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Congratulations on the campaign, and thanks for sharing lessons! Peter points out the lessons every nonprofit can take from this. . Upcoming 501 Tech Club Events: Long Island: May 5th, Syosset: Two Speakers: Open Source Software, and HIPPA Requirements. Scariest part? It's a true story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper. We probably would have made several choices differently as a result of lessons learned from this extremely useful resource. It ultimately would have saved both time and money.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lifehacker , a popuplar blog on technology and productivity, had a post last week on lessons learned from a stolen laptop. TrueCrypt is a free and open-source tool that makes it relatively easy to encrypt your data, using encrypted volumes. The New York Times also blogged about the same issue. Software encryption is your friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. It’s time to view the lessons learned as a way to stretch the dollars invested and make change more scalable. It creates communities when users can comment and exchange their stories about a particular topic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

The Greenbelt Alliance, a nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area, shared 10 lessons learned from its major website overhaul. Connecting Up held webinars on two open-source content management systems: Introducing the Joomla CMS and Introducing the Drupal CMS. Be sure to watch the accompanying webinar on web design as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Kevin used the white label social networking solution Elgg (an open source sonet with facebook like functionality) to set up a community. Lesson Learned: Building your own communities is hard work. Kevin Gamble has more describing a limited test of two efforts - one on Facebook and one on elgg. It might be next to impossible.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Washington, DC: Lessons Learned, Online Learning for Social Change. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. North Richland Hills, Texas: Managing Your Biggest Asset: Relationships and Community Engagement. Oakland, California: Office 365 for Nonprofits — Bay Area! Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. Hosting a Virtual Conference: Lessons Learned for 2021. Make sure to incorporate these six lessons that we learned from conferences hosted in 2020. Looking to expand their learning businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What have you learned and how will you incorporate those lessons into the campaign as it continues? Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. This post was originally published on Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. 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.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Gamelike branching simulations can be authored in a sweet graphic user interface using Branchtrack , or you can delve into advanced functionality and extensibility with the venerable open-source OpenLabyrinth, which now offers a new version.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

You will learn the 5 lessons of raising Whuffie through online communities in this presentation. Lessons learned and plans for the future will be discussed along with some best practices for those who seek to develop true communities. The key to growing your online communities is through growing your social capital. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

I learned some surprising lessons about independence and institutional relationships with communities through this process and expect to learn a lot more in the week to come. Did we breathe life into their aspirations? Museum folks often sit in rooms and talk about how we can serve our communities.

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