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Open311: What Nonprofits and Public Libraries Can Gain from Open Government

Tech Soup

The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Redefining government is the next step. read more.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trebor Scholz wonders about Social Networks - Public, Private, or Social? OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Los Angeles, California: Data Visualization with Tableau Public and Power BI. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Saturday, May 6, 2017.

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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Another recent free tool that Peter brings to our attention is the new release candidate version of the Open Source Microsoft Windows Screen Reader from the Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) project. and Ottowa. Tools for Free. Photo: ingoism.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.