Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Project Management. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. The one feature that makes my day: draft autosave!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

Success and survival require constant courtship of donors, vigilant monitoring of costs, and effective management of projects and stakeholders. For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the forums of email list archives of that project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. What could your supporters and staff do if they took advantage of those features? Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. " Other Open-Source Mobile Tools. What the Mobile Revolution Means.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

And the way we do that on the software development team is to build features and products that provide real value to our customers. Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, React. Our tools & tech stack Google Compute, Amazon S3 Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL, Redis Javascript, CSS, React, Backbone.js

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

complex projects that require careful management. complete their projects. options that nonprofits can use for project and task management. options that nonprofits can use for project and task management. Project management software helps organizations manage the complexities of. Project Management Options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

There were 150+ submitted nominations and 3,000+ people voted and 21 projects were selected. The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. Open Source, Open Standards Video [link]. Maps 2.0 ???

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

There is something attractive to have a fresh start on a digital campaign project. If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

It’s called Kimbia, and it’s got some interesting features, and seems to be focused mostly around creating campaigns. open source, etc. Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM. No setup fees or anything else.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org to educational institutions like University of Massachusetts Amherst , new climate tech startups like BlocPower , and established global brands like Bentley Motors , learn how organizations across these sectors have taken meaningful climate action. From nonprofits like 350.org Just Recovery Gathering , April 9-11: Join 350.org

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. And it has some cool features. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The topic was bullet journaling and the table host was nonprofit tech colleague Ma’ayan Alexander. The main features of BuJo are: Analog journaling: writing in your hand writing, in a paper notebook (even though there are digital versions too). Rapid logging: writing tasks and notes in bulleted lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. I think it means nothing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. It turns out I was at the epicenter of the Linked Open Data community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS. So what LMS should you look at?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

They’ve included some new features like a new personal homepage with things like “Company Updates&# – news about your company, and other business-friendly features. Also, they have a partnership with Business Week – so you can see how you are connected to companies and indivuals covered by clicking on links.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

The iPhone 3G had some compelling features and 3rd party apps (like Pandora , which, I have to admit, is about 1/2 the reason I got the phone.) Well, the iPhone 3G changed the equation, some. The iPhone 3G does have 3rd party apps, but they have to be vetted, etc. by Apple, which is a mixed bag. So, I got one, about two weeks ago.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! During the last several years, TechSoup's Storymakers project has been focused on highlighting the most compelling nonprofit videos. Communications and Marketing. "The rise of mobile.

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