Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here are some of the highlights: Five Weeks to “A Miracle”: The Ukrainian Red Cross’s Story. We’re so grateful to Yaroslav for taking the time to share his story with us at NetHope, and I was honored to be a part of it. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+. Data to Rapidly Respond to a Humanitarian Crisis.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

Gender Flexible Forms and Fields: We needed a broad range of fields to accommodate members’ diverse gender identities and we couldn’t have that on our forms with our old platform. Chapter self-service : We implemented Salesforce Experience Cloud , which gave us a digital experience platform for our staff and their users.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Frist Art Museum. Excellence – Website for Cultural Institutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. . Salesforce.org’s second annual Nonprofit Summit, held earlier this month, attracted over 6,500 attendees from 100 countries.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms. In doing that, we had to decide on some of the donor tools we had built in our old platform. Q: What’s one of your favorite success stories? That made it easier to transition our customers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

Dean Haddock is the Manager of Information Technology for StoryCorps , a nonprofit organization which provides Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of their lives. Dean recently attended the SugarCRM conference and is sharing his experience here as a guest blogger.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. In the meantime focus on telling your story well, and use the blog portion of your site to engage your supporters. It's not obvious, but it's not rocket science either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We saw a 108% increase in dollars raised on the Qgiv platform and a 100% increase in the total number of donations to our clients. Choose the right platform that will set you up to get the most out of your campaign. Our platform also provides personal fundraising dashboards for participants and tools for gamifying the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. The funding collaborators agreed to practice what the research preached and to use social media to exponentially expand its reach by distributing the information across multiple platforms.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. The same with live information, personal stories from witnesses, and so on. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. .&# Or at least something like that! Connect & Learn more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. I love thinking about the famous stories of Davy Crockett here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant. I took a series of screen shots from social media platforms and had the participants discuss and identify what the best Arabic phrase or word.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

You might even use “World Storytelling Day” (March 20 th ) to tell the stories of those your organization has been able to help! For example, Facebook Live and YouTube Live benefit from being on platforms already familiar to your supporters. Twitch is another free social media platform your nonprofit can use to livestream videos.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

Thanks to a grant from Microsoft , TechSoup's App It Up project investigated the kinds of apps nonprofits and libraries are using to engage their constituents, tell their stories, and get their work done. PC World's list of the 49 best cross-platform apps. Still can't get enough apps? Overwhelmed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

He referenced that there are over 371 platforms for social change data. The UN is a neutral platform, trying to learn in the ground, setting up labs in partnership with government. It is not just the software and technology platform, it is the data. How do we weave it together? IssueLabs is a great start.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

Mid-stream we realized something phenomenal: We could make this platform 100% open to the public and not hold our performance data behind a curtain. We'd love to hear your stories! When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Ushahidi created and deployed its platform in about three days to be used by ordinary Kenyans, allowing them to report incidents of violence happening around them. Surveyor is for teams collecting multiple data types from many sources.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Think of a digital platform as: . Think of a digital platform as: . The functions that digital platforms can provide include: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. How do we access the YouTube the celebrities to make us better story tellers? How do take platforms and bring it altogether? grab attention quickly. psa don't work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Can (and should)non-profits become news sources themselves?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Missing Persons.

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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. Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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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. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. It’s very basic.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Reform Copyright.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This gives an opportunity for the audience to share their story and their knowledge. 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. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Email is a critical channel. Google Sketchup.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

I was going to wrap a nice story and post around each of these but decided to just get the information out there. Relatedly, if you are super computer-savvy and impatient for a web version of this sort of thing, check out Omeka , a free open source platform for creating digital collections and exhibitions.

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