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Great reads from around the web on March 18th

Amy Sample Ward

We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods." in cash for their organizations! ." in cash for their organizations! Check it out!

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit. He has served on multiple charity boards. He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. I look at the /r/nonprofit subreddit of Reddit. He has served on multiple charity boards. He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software.

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Lessons Learned from the HealthCare.gov Rollout

Connection Cafe

So, here are a few other articles on the topic that I found interesting: An Open Source perspective. Fascinating discussion from launch day offered here only for its technical commentary (semi-NSFW like everything on reddit). What to do when a project goes wrong. Thoughts on problems of scale.

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