Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

As individuals, we’re served targeted content and ads based on our previous online behavior or social media profiles (e.g., If you are looking to integrate a web personalization tool into your digital strategy, learn about Forum One’s open source website personalization tool. our demographics and interest areas).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Nonprofits might also think that the Mobile Web is a somewhat abstract concept that they need to focus on in a year or two, but as of today one in five Americans now access the mobile web daily. They also send 2.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I was profiled on Linux.com. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Think of Blist as a really interesting combination of really pretty Excel, with some very cool features thrown in from FileMakerPro, in a sweet looking interface, that works in any web browser. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. " You can see his "Meet NTEN" profile here. David wrote this response.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In our mobile, social, always on, multi-screen world it’s important to ensure that your for that your organization’s home on the web is robust, well designed, and well-built. If you are engaging a web developer or in the middle of an RFP process for a new site, be sure that proposals include mobile friendliness in the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web. Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

From organizing donor profiles to implementing fundraising strategies to attending conferences , your mind must be scrambling to remember everything! Imagine being able to grow your donor base and keep track of each donor profile. Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. Don’t bear the whole load yourself. Why We Love It.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2007

WiserEarth tracks the work of nonprofits around the world | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "WiserEarth, which launched in May, is an open-source database of more than 107,000 do-good organizations, with 5,400 users around the world. Users can create and maintain profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 Online Presentations: This came via Britt Bravo - a link to a post from Mashable about "powerpont for the web." at the service of freedom of speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? The web, it???s Let go of the concept of ???driving

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. Fundraising 2.0 It isn't dumb dumb.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online. It's a list of Israeli Linux Clubs!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The advent of open source technology and years of use by corporations have both made these technologies inexpensive and proven they are more agile and reliable than the complex systems most vendors currently offer the nonprofit market. He is on the Board of Directors of Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven't already, you'll have to create an NTEN Affinity Group Profile. KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 for NGOs there. Here's one of her training presentations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s no great secret that WordPress is a pretty amazing program, and open-source jewel that allows users such great latitude of design possibilities. And among those possibilities is the opportunity to create a video library that can really increase the profile of a site and help engage visitors on different levels.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

And it isn’t just Aashika that survivors are inspiring; through Freedom Connect all members of the global network fighting slavery and human trafficking are invited to create profiles, share calendars, create groups, share resources and join together in discussions. Share stories and updates, sometimes photos or videos, publicly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Many fit one of the following profiles, but you should always make sure you understand the community using each tag before you jump into the fray. Also, because #hashtags aren’t as tied to the infrastructure of the web as a URL, they are subject to misspellings, mutation, and organic change. Each #hashtag is different.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

For example, in September Facebook implemented a new policy that stated all user profiles had to have their real identity. Setting Up Your Profile. The round circle you see next to your @username will be your profile image. Note: See screenshot below where I use the red arrow to point to the profile image. Need more tips?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile. I’ve got my flickr photostream up there, my del.icio.us bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. But I’m sure the interface will improve over time. Be Helpful.

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