Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I recently buttonholed founder and CEO Charles Best to get a first-hand account of the groundbreaking charity and its model for funding public school projects around the country. Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Tags: CRM salesforce Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS plone. Today, I was reading up on what the Plone community has done with integrating their CMS with Salesforce.com. from Plone/SF Integration group ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! t just arbitrarily demand openness. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

In that model, O'Reilly said, "The only real citizen participation happens when something goes wrong. Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag. Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine. Also related to international development, check out our " Development Commons dot org " wiki site devoted to how open-source and open-content strategies can help advance progress on development issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Where do our ideas about IT come from?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

This “free” price tag makes Salesforce a service that should seriously be considered by any small to medium nonprofit. Salesforce was originally developed for a business-to-business sales model. It should also be noted that it is an open-source product, which means that it does not have the same quality assurance as Salesforce proper.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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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. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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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. Togetherness: The dream of the Web is a model maps our influence and values to appropriate collective action that has reached its tipping point.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks. Tags: training materials. PopTech is an.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And I also struggled with the consulting business model. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 &# I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features. But that was a pale shadow of the kind of work and contact I wanted with my clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Instead, I dip into the NpTech Tag Stream and notice this post from NTEN about a new book about nonprofits and technology. The circuit rider model was created to solve the three problems outlined above: nonprofits??? Paul-Brian McInerney, PhD February and March are busy months for me.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. It’s very basic.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. Tags: Technology Environment Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Some reactions here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Adding a verbal image tag when embedding an image can enhance user experience, especially if the user has software which "reads" web sites aloud. Tag your post with "net2thinktank" and email a link to us to be included. Font sizing over 40 points can also help make text more readable. using social media.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. Tags: marketing fundraising business models. Let's say you want to make a documentary about the World Cup. Or sail around the world. Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. How would you fund it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

Tags: virtual worlds Tech Virtual. In the meantime, join us Wednesday in San Jose or at The Tech in Second Life (in virtual New Venture Hall ) for an afternoon of lively discussion. If you would like to join us live and in person, please send an RSVP note to summitrsvp@thetech.org I hope to see you then!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Using this open-eyed approach when scheduling an update with your vendor can make the transition to the enhanced software much less of a hassle and get you reaping the benefits of the new features sooner. Tags: nptech , implementation , tech_planning In a now-famous piece, What is Web 2.0? ,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09 I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Is there a business model that will make this work? I’m really not sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cost and Pricing Models Transparent Pricing Structures: Prioritize platforms that offer clear and transparent pricing tiers, detailing the features included in each plan. SEO and Online Visibility SEO Tools: Prioritize platforms that offer built-in SEO tools, including meta tags, keyword optimization, and sitemap generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. I was modeling crowd sourcing and my new definition of an expert: Your expertise is in your network.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

But other models exist -- namely implementing, investing, and collaborating in open source software. All software costs money and/or time to implement, whether it be proprietary, software-as-a-service, or open source. It takes into consideration the philosophical values of open source (or open data).

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Further, you can categorize and tag elements to reuse them across courses. Pricing your courses can be just as complicated as authoring them.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 3, 2024

GA4 Improvements coming Custom metrics and effect on model (for attribution) changes NLP trends on analytics ( ie Google Cloud NL , gensim ) Predictive features of GA4 Consent mode (Google Ads, GA4, & GTM) About consent mode – Google Ads Help. Increase in LLM parity and commoditization across models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code. Tags: Influence Government. Vote for This Idea].

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