Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

I spend time desperately trying to capture some of these insights myself, or give someone an action item (send me an email on that and I’ll do it). James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

She is also on the board of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG). TAG is a membership organization composed of foundation techies who share information about their work in the philanthropy sector. Loretta actually found out about the new Microsoft donation eligibility rules for foundations through a TAG webinar in January.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

When you add Batch gift entry to your existing Apsona license, you get a Batches tab on the Apsona tool bar: First, you add a new batch record. At this point you can’t create batch templates, but you can clone an existing batch record so you don’t have to reset the fields each time. More than worth the time it will save.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API. Select “ChangetheWeb&# from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form. How To Participate.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. Assessments are closely tied to learning objectives, or what you want members to have learned by the time they complete the course. What did the last assessment that you took look like? Fill in the Blank.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

when do you say, “As of this time, we are now raising $XXX more dollars than we did before – based on the new software?” When I’ve looked at ROI, my analyses have been client-specific, dealing with issues like: An inability to produce reports or time spent manipulating reports that should come straight from the system. Time-management.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 7, 2012

Sometimes you can get a foundation to fund those particular needs, but most of the time, the most effective and efficient use of your time is creating a major gifts campaign to raise that money. As far as return on investment, there’s not much you can do that will bring in more results for the investment of time you put into it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 7, 2012

Sometimes you can get a foundation to fund those particular needs, but most of the time, the most effective and efficient use of your time is creating a major gifts campaign to raise that money. As far as return on investment, there’s not much you can do that will bring in more results for the investment of time you put into it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20. We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

With minimal Apex or managed packages, I can change anything I need to at any time. I spend a lot of time in Excel working around the reporting I can’t do in Salesforce. Once upgraded, all existing licenses can use the new features. Any new licenses we purchase will be ready to go. No staff training.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Flat World is a for-profit social enterprise that gives away its core textbooks under a creative commons license, and makes its money on ancillary products like a black and white print version for $30 (vs. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

And I heard from many of you eager to plan, but not knowing how to start or where to find the time. " Tags: roundup bookmarks casestudies community contest facebook fundraising list marketing nonprofits postalicious resources socialmedia strategy technology trends.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Indeed, now faced with existential challenges from a fast shifting landscape, the time has come for us all to rethink our most deeply held tenets in this struggle to remain relevant. The next generation of movement leaders is overcoming its fetish with technology and expertise as secrets to online success. And they're winning.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems. Ecto: This was my favorite editor for a long time. It hit me a couple of times. You have to set this up for yourself by copying the source of a blog entry to a template editor and then replace the title, body, etc with placeholder tags.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We had a difficult time finding social media training materials that were relevant to seniors in our community. As we continue to offer more social media trainings for seniors, we hope to contribute our own Creative Commons licensed materials that other community-based individuals and nonprofit organizations can use in their work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The big kicker, pretty much as always with Blackbaud, is the price tag. There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions. Expect a $35-45K price tag for development and integration. Their SaaS offering, NC Grow has a $20K/year price tag. More on those later.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations. It also provides deep discounts on additional licenses, products, and services. It ultimately would have saved both time and money. Like this article? Get another!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content. Tags: digital learning resources collaboration nptech resource socialbrite.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

We give inventors and authors a time-limited qualified monopoly on their creations to encourage them to bring them to other people through dissemination and commercialization, where appropriate. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Eastern time. Photo: Allison Fine at The Networked Nonprofit book launch at TechSoup Global; Matt Sharp ; CC license. Tags: Event News. The topics and speakers for these look very promising. The first call, How to Lead "The Networked Nonprofit" with Allison Fine, is this Thursday, November 11, at 1 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2010

You can also learn more about the new Microsoft Office from our resource page , wich features articles, blog posts, info about how to acquire donated licenses, and more! In the meantime, there's still time to take part in tomorrow's free TechSoup Talks! webinar on creating a business plan for your organization. Register now !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution. What does that mean?".

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2013

Text: Good afternoon, You can download your Adobe CS4 License here -. Sender: support@rlweiner.com (also sent from sales1@rlweiner.com and Tagged@taggedmail.com). The file may be available for a limited time only. Credit Score Updates. Sender: Classmates.com [classmatesemail@accounts.classmates.com]. Subject: Order N35085.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. Will you charge for travel time? Tags: Consulting. You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. And remember the most important form of computer insurance--regular backups, preferably stored off-site.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out. Sometimes you support a product based entirely on its feature set at the time you click the “buy&# button, and sometimes it’s a matter of faith. Tags: Geek Posts Macintosh. And updated. And updated.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2009

Their license card scheme was a little funky and an online version didn’t quite work out. Sometimes you support a product based entirely on its feature set at the time you click the “buy&# button, and sometimes it’s a matter of faith. Tags: Macintosh. And updated. And updated.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The free webinars are also archived in case you can't make those times. Photo: Robert Thomson , CC license. . . Tags: Backing Up Data Backup Hardware Physical Security Tech Planning Tech Support.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. and March 27, 2017 at noon Eastern time. Eastern time and March 27, 2017 at noon Eastern time. All eligible posts must be made by the Sweepstakes end date and time. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2009

Software buying and licensing can be a daunting subject for the uninitiated, but Zac Mutrux , a San Francisco-based technology consultant with years of experience advising nonprofits, did a great job simplifying this subject during our latest TechSoup Talks! webinar , 5 Mistakes to Avoid when Acquiring Software. Look ahead.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

If you've used any of these resources, it's time to let us know what you thought and how we could improve. Pangea Foundation's Disaster Relief Communications Hub: ReliefPoint is "a real-time communications hub for national disaster relief coordination and information dissemination." Back That Mac Up: Isn't Time Machine enough?

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

On my first day, my new boss explained the basics of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), writing HTML tags on a legal pad as he went along. Even in the early 1990s, the idea of teaching a computer language on paper seemed funny to me, but I kept that page all summer, adding new tags to it as I went along. Photo: Ming Xia , CC license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2010

Through the Salesforce.com Foundation product donation program, qualified 501(c)(3) organizations are able to receive a donation of 10 Salesforce CRM licenses. Pacific time (2 p.m. If you want to learn more, join us for this upcoming free webinar. Is Salesforce CRM Right for Your Organization? Thursday, March 25, 11 a.m.

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