Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. distribution that is currently being translated into Khmer language.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We Resources for Your Organization to Champion Sustainability.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Long Live Open Source!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Using only ethically sourced cocoa and creating products from every element of the plant ensures that the brand, which has been owned by Cadbury since 2005, remains a leader in sustainable business. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Built as an open-source Drupal tool, the website attempts to learn what visitors want from the TCWS site and deliver related content over time. While resources and budgets can certainly drive the development of advanced tools, keeping a few tips in mind can help any organization scale up their offerings: 1.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Without further ado: the winners! NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”. Excellence – Website for Environmental Awareness. NTI Nuclear Security Index.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff? We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Google’s Drive app is a helpful resource management solution for nonprofits. You can centralize your team’s documents, images, videos, and other resources into one accessible location. Drupal Platform overview: Drupal is also an open-source CMS that many nonprofits use to build secure, scalable websites.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Built as an open-source Drupal tool, the website attempts to learn what visitors want from the TCWS site and deliver related content over time. While resources and budgets can certainly drive the development of advanced tools, keeping a few tips in mind can help any organization scale up their offerings: 1.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Yannis and the YOLO streaker incident may be a humourous example, but there have been many instances in the last few years in which Twitter and Facebook have been used to help our organization better provide resources to serve our youth. PolicyTool.net is a great website for developing a very basic policy for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

What follows are my notes, but if you want to spend more time learning about this topic, I’ve pulled together these additional curated resources: 1) Curated Tweets. 2) Curated Blog Posts and Resources that provide context to the discussion or resources mentioned. How do we use private resources for advancing public good?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. Seriously, what any organization needs is a resource(s) dedicated to completing the data migration and engaging leadership in the tough decisions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site will help public health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, and consumers discover how healthy their county is compared to other counties and to uncover strategies to reduce disparities and improve community health. The site ranks counties in two ways: "Health factors" (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Congress can turn the broad call for "change" across the country into specific policies. Ben Rattray, Change.Org's founder, describes it as - "to create an open-sourced advocacy platform that identifies and then mobilizes resources around the best ideas for how to change the country."

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

There's always great discussion and debate about nonprofit tech topics here, along with some really helpful resource sharing. We also ask about your thoughts on Facebook privacy policies, and where we should hold our 2013 NTC, so it's not all fun and games, people!) > NTEN Members LinkedIn Group.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. An easy example is green technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.&# Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Good how to resource here ). The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. The executive director, Chim Manavy, was on the Cyber Cambodian panel and spoke about Cambodia's need for a telecommunications policy and action plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. state, ostensibly so that each district has similar populations, resources, monuments, Starbucks, and whatever else makes a member of Congress all atwitter. Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. That’s where the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

With over 100 panels to choose from on every topic under the sun, choosing the right ones that will give your nonprofit the best research, tools and resources in technology and social media is key. In 2009, our challenge becomes how to harness these tools for in order to reopen the policy-making process. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

In turn, as these APIs are developed, they will become publicly available to anyone wishing to integrate other third party CMS systems into Convio FL: What are the main challenges to implementing Convio Open? SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Influence decision-makers; impact public policy. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel. Deanna Zandt wrote this great beginner’s guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The nonprofit sector is the long snail - helping the 99% of nonprofits that are providing 50% of the services to obtain the resources. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. They have a comment policy on their blog. Introduced the concept of the Long Tail and the 80/20 rule.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.” Why are we all updating the same resources?”

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Are they available to review online? All rights reserved.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

This makes sense, when an AI is put in a situation where harm to humans is possible there needs to be a clear policy from Government. AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. They essentially released an unregulated autonomous school bus that is now driving our children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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