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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here is an excerpt from my written testimony, as originally featured on Benetech''s Blog : Delivering my statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary, August 1, 2013 We build our work on strong foundations laid down by other people and companies, whether it’s the open source ecosystem of the Internet, or proprietary software or content.

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Nonprofit Newsletter: Free Tools to Create and Merge PDFs

Wild Apricot

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Apple also has a system by which you sign up to sell your books in their iBookstore. I’d say you eventually want it in three different formats: PDF. PDF is easy. MS Word, OpenOffice.org, and LibreOffice (a recent fork of OpenOffice.org – that’s another blog post) have PDF export facilities, so that job is easy.

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A Better Way to Produce Nonprofit Annual Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. The Death of the PDF.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is coming closer to doing PDF import. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 Happy dance, anyone? Two whole pageviews. Be Helpful.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WebHuddle is free, and open source. In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. And, as a competitor to Skype, ooVoo is much lighter on your system it’s quite easy to use.

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