Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards. Demonstration Projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. The most important aspect of designing a successful participatory platform is to intentionally, deliberately, and clearly DESIGN the platform. Signtific is not an open mushy conversation about the future.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10. In code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness panel Friday March 12 2:00 PM - "In Code We Trust" is the new motto for Government in the 21st century.

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