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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

It opens up the question: Who owns our data? This a big topic in the open data and nonprofit big data field. Opendata question is also critical – how do you know whether data you release will be dangerous in future mashups? Personal Health Data goes beyond collecting sleep metrics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits. These folks do astonishing work. So much innovation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. You can find more information at [link]. Don't worry if you're not a coder geek. Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

You can "protect your updates" or "open." If you work in the nonprofit tech sector, take a look at some nonprofit profiles. Twitter Packs - Nonprofits. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Pros/cons to each. Decide whether you want an organizational account or individual account. People who attended TED.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Voting's open till Monday! You can get some help with finding the nonprofit-tech proposed sessions from Beth Kanter's handy list. See the case-study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. " I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. I intend to be there, and listen in, and take notes, and post my opinions about the zen of APIs for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

May we suggest that if you ever host a party, you should offer an "Orange Leap Mashup" That sounds like it would be delicious. Never again will Holly have to say, "No, 'M' as in 'Mother' Power, not 'N' as in 'Nancy' Power" That's probably for the best. " Congrats to Orange Leap!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Note from Beth: Please j oin me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. Like many nonprofits working in more networked ways, KaBOOM! Case Study. In other words, KaBOOM!’s

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. This is a new landscape for nonprofits to leverage. Silos in nonprofits keep departments insulated and reduce communication. Nonprofits are resourceful, great at finding solutions given the available tools. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The concept of openness. offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd. asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. To vote: 1. Create an account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. In turn, the typewriter brought about and helped to accelerate social change, opening up new jobs for women in the office. It reminded of the questions we discussed in the early 1990's about using online collaboration tools for nonprofits. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

This has opened up the debate of who owns the photos, videos, and anything else you post to social media. Here’s a list of 30 hashtags you may want to follow that are specific to nonprofits. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change. 3) Who has rights to photos you post on social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

What relevance does it have to a nonprofit organization like yours? The short answer: Cloud computing levels the technology playing field for nonprofits. Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Or, it might open the door for a teachable moment about Creative Commons and the share economy. The cover is from a remix mashup. I remixed it for nonprofits. Through my remix of the material, I've introduced David's original article to an audience of nonprofits. which was based on Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. Humaninet is a nonprofit organization that supplies technical equipment and expertise to humanitarian disaster response teams.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Openness - ????A A nonprofit organized named Creative Commons. I'm nervous.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Many early adopters in nonprofits got started this way - outside of the firewall. Here's how Nina Simon described it on her insightful post analyzing the tactics used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

These gatherings provide a chance for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change , whether you're part of a nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization, a funder or a consultant, a developer or an entrepreneur.". Does your community address local issues? Then check out.

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