Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Bottlenecks are a thing of the past with teams no longer needing to wait on stubbed-out views to be created. That said, because of the decoupled nature, like with all things Composable, you can easily utilize open-source JavaScript libraries that aren’t tied to any specific CMS or back-end.

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Digital Experiment Drupal API 69

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

The Benetech team is delighted by its adoption today. It is our hope that Benetech’s Bookshare library, the authorized entity which we believe has the world’s largest accessible online collection with its 198,000 titles, becomes a major source of books for all people who are blind or otherwise print disabled.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. This CMS also offers a vast library of ready-made themes to choose from, with over 11,000 themes available. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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Drupal Tips WordPress Module 101

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. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating.

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United States Library Copyright License 134

Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

It used to be that you needed to enroll at a local school or spend hours in the library to learn new skills. Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Library Case Study Studies Instruction 40

AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

This is an affordable option that can help virtual event teams working on a tight budget. Media library. mimoLive is an all-in-one solution for virtual event teams that are unable to employ an entire video team. Media library. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming.

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Virtual Product Video Tools 97

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . If you missed the event or would like to revisit the highlights, check out our on-demand content and resource library. Watch On Demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Second Life Open Source Life Education 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. This is a huge legal victory!

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Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang. You can create new tasks, communicate with stakeholders, and share updates across teams.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 86

Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

Understand if you need to get permission from your manager or IT team to install new software on devices. ClamAV is a popular open-source option. DBAN is one popular open-source option to assist with this. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Want more tips like this?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. With Betsy Beaumon leading the Bookshare team, I feel confident that we will go from the quarter million people with print disabilities that we serve today to millions around the globe.

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eBook Award Copyright Syria 221

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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Images Student Accessibility Content 133

AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

This is an affordable option that can help virtual event teams working on a tight budget. Media library. mimoLive is an all-in-one solution for virtual event teams that are unable to employ an entire video team. Media library. OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming.

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Virtual Product Video Tools 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. They have rock-solid core development teams, security updates, and over all good code, which you could hardly say about either platform 4 years ago. Sites where you want complex control over multiple content types – how they are created and viewed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. Have an Android device?

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Literacy Program United Arab Emirates Student 166

Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

A well-designed website doesn't require a large budget and a professional design team. Watch a replay of TechSoup's Short Evaluations of Real Websites webinar to hear expert feedback on nonprofit and library websites. The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site.

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Global Design Web Resource 55

NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. They have rock-solid core development teams, security updates, and over all good code, which you could hardly say about either platform 4 years ago. Sites where you want complex control over multiple content types – how they are created and viewed.

Drupal 76

Drupal WordPress Module AJAX 76

Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

These platforms remove the onus of designing each individual experience from the shoulders of the association— your team— and instead give learners agency to do so themselves. Rather than learners accessing content as it becomes available, learners always have access to a vast library of on-demand courses.

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Platform Experiment eLearning Learning 36

Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. The Open Collective Idea. A tech start-up.

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Platform Build Open Source Profit 106

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Team up with local news. Check out their event page for inspiration: 3. Host a concert.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground.

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San Francisco Detroit Change API 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.” Developing Open Source Software For Social Good For example, in the last few months, individual employees have used volunteer hours to create fun interactive, online learning tools for educators and students using Mozilla’s Webmaker.

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Open Source Lesson Tech Project 118

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. I work with Bonasources Wild Apricot marketing team. open source.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

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. I see a closing quotation mark but not an opening one.

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Tech Digital Build Tools 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently. For more advanced app requirements, they would start with their application 90-95% done already on the platform.

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Data Impact Open Source Mobile 187

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. In her comic and though-provoking style, Heather Gold brings together amazingly smart women to discuss what makes social networks strong and predict where theyre heading next online. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Social Media Interaction Advocacy Online 44

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The only difference between them is the set-up fee that covers the work of our in-house design team. Standard Build: $600 set-up fee In the Standard package, you pick a template from our library and then Neon Websites’ designers creates 6 of your website’s most important pages.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. Let’s begin with an overview of course authoring software before diving into the tools your team can access. These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. What is course authoring software?

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

These individuals can take photos and videos at events and submit them to your organization’s content library. She enjoys helping clients identify their problems, and then empowering the Kanopi team to execute great solutions. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Content Strategy Create Websites 75

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 265

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Event management software for nonprofits brings all planning elements together in one place, streamlining your preparation and saving your team time and stress. With that in mind, here are several key considerations to discuss with your team before investing in event management software: The size of your event. Your budget.

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