Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Photo by Beth. Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You So, maybe the first thing you would do is education and training, maybe a live demo showing how social media works and why it is important. Sounds like science fiction doesn't it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I think one of the biggest mistakes that an organization can make with its website is to promise more than it can deliver – make sure that the resources to create that blog, or podcast, or photo gallery, or whatever bells and whistles that you promise on your website, are there when the website goes live. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

If you don’t fall into either of these categories, but you enjoy the photos of fluffy kittens, more power to you. You either have to find gamer/hacker/leet speak very amusing in itself, or be fascinated by the linguistic implications. at 9:37 pm I really enjoyed writing stuff for Lasa and the UK point of view. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. The blog uses the open source WordPress software with a free WordPress template. We're always haranguing our client organizations to set up blogs to collect "field notes.".

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option. North York Community creates powerful digital stories by geting their constituents involved with hands-on training that brings them into the creation process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. 4 Ade 12.18.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. . Tags: training materials. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. It's an open source free web meeting service. It isn't dumb dumb. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2006

Follow Open Source principles. There needs to be more tech training for women, and I would add, for girls. One place in San Francisco that I know is providing tech training for girls is GirlSource's Technology and Leadership Program. Have more Inbound messages from your audience than Outbound messages to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? 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. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Some reactions here.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends. It will also allow you to store 12 hours of videos and photos in Space Saver format so you can take your favorite content wherever you go. Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more.

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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. . Photo: Bart Sullivan . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. What if we demanded that a basic low cost connection and computer and training were available to every Aussie who wanted it like the telephone?

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners. Elucidat is an eLearning authoring platform trusted by large organizations for employee training. Localize training for various regional audiences.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

It’s feels like a combination of Twitter (say hello and share what you are up to), Tumblr (longer form posts, photos, gifs), and Google+ (a bucket for friends and a bucket for noise). If you are looking to “brand yourself” then be sure this is a photo or image people will recognize. This is to be expected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) It provides engagement data about your photos, likes, follower growth, as well as when is the best and worst time to post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Here are the popular tools you might look into: OBS is a free and open-source software that can be used for video recording and livestreaming. Offer training and orientation online. Pixlr is an online photo editor that allows you to edit photos and create designs right in your browser for free.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina. There is the shared creativity.

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