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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. 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.

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Steal My Idea, Please! Why An Open Source Attitude Can Make Apps Go Viral

Care2

Its reception blew away any of our previous metrics. 111% open rate, 80% participation on the site, 1/3 forwarded it. ” We felt so confident that I even spammed my entire personal address book with it (sorry, mom). At this point, we knew we were on to something.

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Exciting open access project in Vancouver!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Open Source Algorithm for Metric for understanding of blogs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has a table that lists the items that could be in a new metric and their relative weight. And the relevant measure of connection isn't the number of connections -- it's the depth and impact of those connections. This is about celebrating the niche, and measuring engagement over time. Interesting food for thought.

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Nonprofits Are Adding Bots to their Social Media Teams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work.

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Furthering Your Nonprofit Career: 3 Tips for Development

Bloomerang

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online.