Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. at 7:02 am Hi Michelle–I’ve read the first two book and agree with both of your reviews.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, React. Collaboration Review and provide input into software specifications. You may review designs for some upcoming work with a small group. Our tools & tech stack Google Compute, Amazon S3 Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL, Redis Javascript, CSS, React, Backbone.js

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building Web Building.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. As always, you can also review the speaking notes by downloading the file for your own review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 2, 2016

When it comes to options that can really help you sell on your site, WordPress—as open source software—puts lots of additions at your fingerprints from third party developers. Shopify will require you to install apps to really make your page pop, however lots of these are free.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We may be a nonprofit, but we’re also a tech company: in ten years, we shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing today! That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments.

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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. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. I’ve perused the demos, and it does look like it would be useful for reviews of things like specs, wireframes, etc. at 11:06 am Hi Michelle, Thank you for your review of ReviewBasics! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08

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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! "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. "The rise of mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

There is a great review at Wired that gives a good overview of what you’ll find. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Happy Birthday, Gutsy Gibbon!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, Songbird has emerged, like many open source projects do, as a mature, stable, and, in Songbird’s case, a truly awesome application, because of the incredible extensibility of the Mozilla framework (and the talent of the Songbird developer community.). It’s happily notifying Growl when new songs play.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Linux is more secure, more stable, and can be used on older hardware.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Michael Gilbert has a review of things happening on the varied NTC backchannels, with some wry commentary. After it’s all said and done, I’ll post my overall review. But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Maintain and develop our data deduplication (entity resolution) framework written in python and Java.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

These open source tools include apps and tools for encrypting emails, texts, browsing history, and even phone calls. You can do a quick review of your online accounts and see which services offer two factor authorization (2FA). apps surveillance open source security mobile apps privacy data' Keep Systems Secure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. That said, you should also monitor this site (and others like it) for the rare rogue review. The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. It is a must download!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

I spent lots of time reading the reviews (many of which were BAD), but we decided to plunk down the dough (lots of it) and go for it. They did have some really bad reviews on dslreports.com , but the other folks, WildBlue , weren’t installing anything in our area. Anyway, it just got to be too much. We got Hughesnet.

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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. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

One of the prompts for this post was also that I’m preparing a post on “cloud computing&# , just reviewing what it means, and what it is, and why it’s important – and that will undoubtedly help me to keep up with that whole set of things. How do you keep up?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. First, export this data into a spreadsheet and review it. You stop and review your map again. D9: Once the data migration is completed, who is responsible for data quality – the tech team? the fundraising team?

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Los Angeles, California: LGBTQ and Tech!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. These folks do astonishing work. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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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. He's the co-organizer of the Austin 501 Tech Club and a presenter at the upcoming NTC.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Make sure to review its content and conduct maintenance before you embark on a multi-channel fundraising campaign. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Your nonprofit website is an important tool and resource that you do not want to let fall by the wayside.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. Harvard Business Review is another favourite for insights from a business / management perspective. He has served on multiple charity boards. I comb through LinkedIn groups quite a bit. The Big Surprise.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Mapping can be done with low tech tools (sticky notes and markers) or you can use simple tools to map your own network on social media platforms or software that helps you illustrate it. As he notes, the analysis can be helpful to him as a journalist and content curator to identify potential sources online.

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