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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Gerardo has publically shared many of his presentations on these and other topics, which are available via SlideShare.

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. You can find an aged, but perhaps useful webinar I did up on slideshare.). And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Women and Open Source and Identity. Speak Up: Pitching and Public Speaking Mojo. Building the Ultimate User Experience.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit is almost here!

Amy Sample Ward

Check out these awesome panels and sign up today.

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Women Who Tech: Get Your Geek On

NTEN

Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare. Women and Open Source. Here are a few of the rockin' women who will be joining us: . Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer. Allison Fine of Personal Democracy Forum. Natalie Foster of the DNC. Ellen Miller of Sunlight Foundation. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas. Deanna Zandt. Holly Ross of NTEN.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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