3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Carr Systems’ growth has prompted us to redesign our site to better reflect precisely what it is that we do for our customers, who those customers are, and the unique approach that makes us an ideal solution for SMBs, nonprofit organizations and public agencies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 19, 2014

TED2014 attendees were asked to reflect on their reactions to the Snowden appearance on stage. Encrypt all personally identifiable information with strong, open source crypto, and take a big step on the road towards doing no harm while bringing the benefits of technology to the world''s most vulnerable populations!'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. 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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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS. Stay tuned as we plan on releasing it on Drupal.org as an open source solution for all to use!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Migration: a way to reschedule tasks following reflection and a reassessment of them. Among them: Have a place to plan, reflect and think offline. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. You’re encouraged to design your own Custom Collections.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. . It was great to connect with Ory Okolloh – Ushahidi , who I have known for many years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. There, he and his team assist Senate offices in building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our nation. Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. What if the unexpected wasn’t seen as failure but as lessons to be shared?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant. The technology itself is advancing, opening up more possibilities for even smarter applications. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

"Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. He then pulled the data into an open source network analysis software called Gephi which produced a network map that he reviewed to help guide engagement and source discovery.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 1, 2009

For the last few months, I have been working on a new collaboration called OpenIssue , which is a growing, diverse, self-reflective and constantly-learning team. We are focused on delivering quality web technology solutions to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses. Reflect on your budget and how much you can spend on courses.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

The group addressed a number of issues over the course of the year, many of which are reflected in this white paper. > Heavy, but not sole, use of open source technologies for constituent relationship and project management, among other functions. > Download the White Paper (PDF).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit. And, the desire for peer learning was strong.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source. Kapor suggested that open government is a part of the natural progression of open source: open-source developers have already redefined software and business.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector? How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

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 August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2009

Becky recommends an Idealware report on open-source content-management systems. Brenda reflects on last week's webinar on technology grants for libraries. Here are a few highlights from the past week in TechSoup. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Kami hosts a webinar on how to host a webinar.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Andreas Pawelke and Anoush Rima Tatevossian reflect on the progress of data philanthropy (private sector companies sharing data for public benefit) since it first emerged at the World Economic Forum in 2011. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Data Philanthropy: Where are we now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

She realized it wasn’t just a day for giving; it was a day of individual reflection and a focus on how each of us can matter in the world —an opportunity to ask yourself “how can I contribute more?”. For the Giving Tuesday movement, centrally, and for the team at 92 nd Street Y, Baltimore proved that the day is truly an open source movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

The terms applies to community-driven marketing and pr campaigns to gather support for open source software. Some articles analyzing campaigns or reflections. Some examples: Mambo Love Opera KD Creative Commons Spread FireFox Wikipedia Promotion SpreadOpen Office. Lessig: post 1 and post 2 Factory Joe Spread Spread Posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That, however, WILL not be reflected in our webstats for a while, if at all. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 7 Beth Kanter 09.21.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. Peter Dietz is promoting the use of "sa-topten" tag in del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Supporting social tagging of museum collections, and providing access based on the resulting folksonomy, opens museum collections to new interpretations that reflect visitors???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). If using more than one tag, leave a space between tags 3. Click OK 4. Use control-x to capture into clipboard 5.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere.

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