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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

We talk a lot about Open Source technology (and we use it quite extensively too) so it might make sense for us to take a moment and explain why we are such advocates. Affordability – Open Source is free of licensing fees. Proven – Open Source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, CiviCRM, etc.,

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Message in A Box: New Toolkit from Tactical Technology Collective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media.  The tools section is an annotated directory of open source tools that describe the tool and include links to downloads, manuals, and tutorials.  

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content.

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The Best Online Safety Resources for YOUR Organization

Tech Soup

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). In particular, I like its Creative Commons-licensed courses on online identity and privacy that charities or libraries are welcome to use. Techboomers' tutorial, How Secure Is My Password? ,

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Cleveland, Ohio: Tableau Tutorial: Free Data Visualization for Nonprofits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. There’s also the GIMP Basics tutorial, which is more geeky, but still manageable. is a free open source application.

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