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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Graphics and Video

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

On the open source side, the projects that stand out are GIMP (a Photoshop replacement) and Inkscape (a vector graphics program – like Illustrator). One doesn’t have to pay for these, so it’s a bit hard for open source (or other products, even) to compete. It’s Windows only for now, though.

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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. Put it on you web page, burn a DVD to show at a gathering, show it in a theater before another movie, play it at a cafe, show it to friends on a portable player, or even put it on television.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 2 admin 07.07.08

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. And, more importantly, will nonprofit messages get lost in the stream of news feed posts about Joe being a fan of Apple, and Jane renting a four star movie from Blockbuster? { Be Helpful.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

Other products mentioned by participants in the discussion: John Elbare recommended: Wink -– Free program for creating flash movies out of screen shots: [link]. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. ZoneAlarm — PC firewall software: [link].

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

Low-cost movie editing is also possible with built-in computter software (iMovie on Macs and Windows Movie Maker on PCs) or YouTube's own editing tools. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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See a problem? Throw a website at it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

"If we build it they will come" only works in the movies. Except… Everyone wants their site to be the unified place. Wishing, unfortunately, won’t make it so. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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