Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. Tags: CMS Open Source drupal idealware plone security. More on that in a bit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our strong cryptography technology, Martus —a free, open source, secure information management tool-makes it easier for groups working with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what other people build with our tools.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

They say things like, “We will create X program, it will serve Y people, in Z months, and it will create these A, B, C forms of measurable impact,” but do they really know any of that? Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. There is something for everyone! Zak Kaufman, Vera Solutions, and Andrew Means, Salesforce.org.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

How will you measure success? If you are looking to integrate a web personalization tool into your digital strategy, learn about Forum One’s open source website personalization tool. The easiest way to start segmenting or customizing your marketing is to look at the technologies that you’re already using.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

Want to measure the engagement of your constituents? CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Electronic Frontier Foundation will be delivering the. Want to talk with folks who have.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. And finding a secure, modern hosting partner that can support an evolving open-source website isn't as simple as checking the yellow pages. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. In particular, these are the not very interesting, subtle or telling measures used to make indexes like the Technorati Top 100 or the PubSub 100 or the Feedster 100.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The idea is simple – by open sourcing her materials, she hopes to inspire more colleges to incorporate courses on philanthropy in their curriculum. At the time, I was working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author KD Paine. I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One worked with the NMNH to bring this sense of wonder to the Museum’s online presence, completely redesigning and developing its website in the latest open source technology. The National Museu m of Natural History has a mission to promote a greater understanding of the natural world and our place in it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities. Private companies measure success using KPIs like ROI and sales goals. The great news is that you don't need to.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Measure weight. Power source. hardware open source' Humidity and temperature sensor (originally developed for brewing beer at home, but the concepts are universal). Weather station. Digital camera. Web server (LAMP). Landline phone (PBX). Creating sounds. Buying a Raspberry Pi. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

As a recent MIT study showed, communities were better able to align aid with those that needed it than objective measures were to assigning that same support, and they felt far better about it. So, look for opportunities to be a catalyst, supporting an environment for the community to help itself.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Austin, Texas: GivBee | Product Spotlight. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. More on that in a bit. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# It’s an interesting book, with a basic premise. 3 admin 10.23.07 Be Helpful.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs. Drupal Platform overview: Drupal is also an open-source CMS that many nonprofits use to build secure, scalable websites. Prices vary based on the hosting provider you choose.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Additional Opportunities Created for Staff. Increased Fundraising ROI.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

The following tools may help you listen, monitor, measure, and ask. Tattlr - "open source" says Gordon Dymowski on MetroShrink. Measurement by Channel. For Facebook : Edgerank for measuring the efficacy of your Facebook page , although, frankly, I've never had any luck raising serious money with.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

All of this software is free and much of it is open source. Encryption is something you can easily do to protect your rights as an individual citizen, as well. Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author. An Interview with The Knight Foundation's Mayur Patel on measuring and demonstrating impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Speaking of communities … Open up beyond your “partners&# – Really getting involved in writing apps for either platform requires that people become official partners of the companies. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. As he notes, the analysis can be helpful to him as a journalist and content curator to identify potential sources online. The notes are here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&# Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Learn the best ways to crowdsource your mission and measure progress toward your goals. It’s time to go back to basics and figure out how to effectively organize.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Asking NTEN to show leadership by publishing web stats is to suggest that NTEN would think that publishing web stats is a useful measure of nonprofit accountability. That dog won’t hunt.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. In past startups I would use friends and family to measure early success.

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