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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift? It also means you can pick up your site and take it to any vendor.

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Internet Identity Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. There is also a $50,000 bounty program for OpenID integration in major open source distribution.

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Good Lord, another blog.

Museum 2.0

But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. From closed content to open-source forums. But the concepts behind them are powerful and useful in the discussion about the future of museums. No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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