Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? How do you know that Twitter caused the increase in Web site traffic? Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. What tool did you use? ET that day, in shifts.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

They are trying to get companies to share data mining, for example mining Twitter and FB to detect disease outbreaks. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. A new type of CSR? Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013. IssueLabs is a great start.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2011

Also, there is no longer a five-seat minimum requirement, so an organization can request just one license if that is all it needs. You can also follow @msftcitizenship on Twitter to hear more or find them on Facebook. Help us spread the word to our fellow nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Twitter: @gregoryheller. Free and Open Source Software. Blog: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

And since it ties into Drupal or Joomla you get a complete frontend / backend system. ?? MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. at 11:04 am Just wondering if you have seen [link] It runs on a linux server (which I do not think this MPower does? Thanks for a great site!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. Although they weren’t doing it when I made the purchase, Dell is now including licensed DVD playback software.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Hope you'll pay us a visit and follow us on Twitter !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. is another one I’m watching. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? What’s involved in this? 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Sending Money By Email.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

It is a rock-solid distribution with what is arguably the best package management system. Debian I’m a real fan of Debian, and have been using it on the server-side for a very long time. Ubuntu is based on Debian). It has a vibrant user community. Debian is the favorite of most serious Linux geeks.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" SH: Open APIs allow nonprofits to bend systems to fit their particular needs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in community health, adolescent residential treatment, and a faith-based organization. (I quality of life, self-reports, self-sufficiency) can be assessed based on system-wide information, and not simply a “snapshot” of services received in one location.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Sharing passwords, shadow IT—and for those who don’t know what “shadow IT” is, essentially, it’s staff members, users, basically going out and evaluating and purchasing and implementing IT applications, programs, systems that have not been approved or been reviewed by anyone in either management or the executive level. It’s very important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. Social Media helps PresenTense manage their big community: they use Facebook , twitter and Google Apps. Oded Segev, System Analyst at NPTech, guided Simi on how to customize Salesforce, but she does the work herself.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

For instance, we know Twitter is a great forum to share ideas and consume new content, while Facebook has become the most popular platform for B2C consumers. Think about when you’re scrolling through Twitter, Facebook, or your preferred media sites. I’m a big fan of marketing fundamentals. The Value Proposition.

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