Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Responsible AI: What It Means for Your School Presented by Hiram Cuevas of St. Cybersecurity on a Budget: Leveraging Open-Source Software and Trusted Vendors Presented by Don Rahn, Director of Security Operations, Blackbaud In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, defending against threats is non-negotiable.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about open source technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Preparing for and delivering a webinar isn't something most librarians spend their days doing, so we are especially grateful to our speakers for this gift of sharing what they've learned about open-source software over the last 10 years. You can join in by posting additional questions or your own answers or comments.

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2024

In short, all of them are used to describe digital platforms and services, separated from the presentation layers presented to users, with everything stitched together via APIs. On the open-source front, Drupal and WordPress have been a little slower to move when it comes to Composable Architecture.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Gerardo has publically shared many of his presentations on these and other topics, which are available via SlideShare.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

We'll take a look at how to handle integrations between Salesforce and a trio of open source CMS solutions -- Plone, Drupal, and Joomla -- at our upcoming webinar, " Salesforce + CMS Integration Showdown: Plone, Drupal, and Joomla ". > Each system will be presented by experts in the field who’ve been there and done that before.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I love doing presentations, the preparation, creating the content, and the performance. Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. Rashmi Sinha asked me if I would do a session on how to present for nonprofits at the upcoming presentation camp.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

In short, all of them are used to describe digital platforms and services, separated from the presentation layers presented to users, with everything stitched together via APIs. On the open-source front, Drupal and WordPress have been a little slower to move when it comes to Composable Architecture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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For example, when presented with a grant description describing programs serving low-income populations, the system would often also predict that the grant was serving “People of African Descent.” Large language models such as ChatGPT can make up facts and present them as true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles. Data Leadership Open Source Strategy Communications' Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles. Data interactive maps Leadership mapping MS-DS nptech nten Open Source Paul Chamberlain Strategy Communications'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. Unfortunately, there's a 10 MB limit if you're uploading a PowerPoint file and you can reach that pretty quickly if you are presenting with visuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Next week, while in the UK and on a laptop that won't support the Second Life client (there are access problems), the Berkman Center will present a highlight of this course - a virtual trial ! And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. Just like in 2008 when I had an “aha moment” about APIs, in June 2009 I had an “aha moment” about Linked Open Data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, 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. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2009

I’m psyched to be working with Drupal more intensely (I’ve got 4 Drupal projects going at the present moment.) Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech drupal. I met lots of great people, and saw old and new friends. I think, also, I’ve completely drunk the Drupal koolaid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. Bullet Journaling for Nonprofit Professionals – Guest Post by Ma’ayan Alexander.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

It doesn’t help organizations bridge the huge data and workflow gap present between their traditional CRM/Donation management systems and their social media interactions. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? Can it be demoted now?

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The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Komen for the Cure, for their Salesforce-based application formerly known as Aikido, presently known as Common Ground. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. I trust Allan’s gut instincts about CRM technology. It’s a great, thoughtful post. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Poet presents the images within the text, which allows the describer to fully understand the context.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I was glad to see that there are a significant number of women here, and a number of women presenters, too. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. I hung out with Drupalchix for lunch, and met new folks, saw some colleagues, and generally have been having a good time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great. for at least 4 years. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

And it seems that this, and the absence in WordPress of a way to easily control the way that lists of content are presented and viewed are the major platform differentiators. Also, I have to say, as much as I have respect for other Open Source CMS platforms, IMHO, 98% of websites can be served by either of these platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Russell's (AudioActivism) and Ruby Sinreich's (LotusMedia) presentation slides at the recent RPTnet conference. The presentation is excellent -- I like how they defined blogs and gave many examples -- I just combed through the blog definition and selected a few below, but the presentation is well worth reading through the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2010

Four activities will be presented over both days, and each activity will be facilitated by winners of the TechSoup Global NTC Networking Challenge. Check out the activities and learn about and digitally connect with the presenters below. Tags: Digital Divide Open Source Services Software Using the Web and Internet.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. Oh, and women vs. men presenters. Women and Open Source and Identity. After that comes the hard part: figuring out what to put on the final agenda. It's a balancing act -- literally. We don't always succeed at that. Female Ferocity. And more….

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

When I attend conferences to give a keynote, I usually try to stick around for more of the conference and listen in to the other presenters. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs).

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