Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on).

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Happily though, because of its size and the fact that it’s an open-source program, vulnerabilities in security for the main operating program as well as the thousands of plugins are often caught early thanks to many eyes keeping a faithful watch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Kindle, at first blush, sounds pretty cool. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying a Kindle November 26, 2007 I think I might need a new blog category: why I won’t be buying … First Leopard, now, Kindle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

It all sounds like LinkedIn wants to pull all of those people who have been migrating to Facebook back into their fold, with the idea that LinkedIn is serious about business. Also, they have a partnership with Business Week – so you can see how you are connected to companies and indivuals covered by clicking on links. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You Sounds like science fiction doesn't it? And let's take that a step further, why not use social media as part of the governing process. . I think you have to crawl before you fly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I have outstanding issues or decisions to make with my kernel not seeing all the memory I’ve given it (therefore requiring a recompile, which I have been postponing for weeks) sound, a webcam, a scanner, and accounting software. In fact, what’s funny is that things that do in fact “just work&# with Linux almost surprise me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

But what they gained, and it sounds like he’s not willing to give it up – is flexibility. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. They saved some in cost from a proprietary PBX system – but then they had to spend more on support and the like – it was a wash cost wise. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Supporting analysis and evaluation may not sound as exciting to your board as funding a new tool, but it can be at least as important! Once we know why it is working, we can know if it is even able to scale or the success is tied too closely to the specific segment already engaged. Let the community drive the innovations you want to support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on. There will be way more on this in later posts. 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Creating sounds. Power source. hardware open source' Humidity and temperature sensor (originally developed for brewing beer at home, but the concepts are universal). Weather station. Digital camera. Web server (LAMP). Measure weight. Landline phone (PBX). Buying a Raspberry Pi. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

That’s easier than it sounds. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

He says that “seeing like a state” is more similar to “seeing like a citizen”, and that citizens are more likely to ask for information like comparative school performance, for instance, since it is of direct importance to them, on open data platforms. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 2 Michelle Murrain 03.19.07 at 5:45 pm Thanks, Michele.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Sounds like a reasonable idea. IRC has always seemed to me to be one of the best ways to do that, but IRC is, well, passé these days, it seems. But why not add another channel to the back channel happenings, for instance, at NTC ? But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

May we suggest that if you ever host a party, you should offer an "Orange Leap Mashup" That sounds like it would be delicious. Never again will Holly have to say, "No, 'M' as in 'Mother' Power, not 'N' as in 'Nancy' Power" That's probably for the best. " Congrats to Orange Leap!

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 8:42 am I think the biggest pain point that Twitter has is getting people to start using it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. Call them organizational processes, but boy, do I think that is a non-starter!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Where else can you get a steady diet of online seminars from experts in the field, covering topics from virtualization , to optimizing your Google Grant account , to running email campaigns , to setting up an open source website -- all with you and your nonprofit in mind? And, of course, the conference.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. A successful crowdsourcing of information at sea allows different agencies to make sound environmental decisions and share information.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

And so—even though it sounded a bit over-the-top to observers around us—we went looking for a developer with a sense of adventure and a proven track record for follow-through. We had this idea that we would put all of the field data online somehow—it could be updated easily from any of our sites, and we would have immediate access.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

This method is great for its ease of use and immediacy but will not allow you to add any sound effects, music, or cut in other voices and input. Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This actually sounds too good to be true. Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Square Cash allows you to send up to $2,500 each week in several transactions or all at once.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. If LocalFreeWeb sounds familiar, it's because this service for finding free Internet access was at the previous Caravan breakfast. LocalFreeWeb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. isn't as negative as it sounds. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.? Some reactions here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

He, like me, prefers free or open source tools and admits that Audacity did have a learning curve and it can be conquered. and he has promised to me sound smart and articulate!). He makes the call via SKPE and uses a cheap plugin called "hotrecorder" that tapes the call. does with their video interviews.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. At risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, I remember back in the internet bubble years of the mid-late 90's when everyone said you just have to "launch and learn."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2006

Follow Open Source principles. In a strange coincidence, my husband was hired to record sound for Link TV during the conference, so we got to spend the two days together. Have more Inbound messages from your audience than Outbound messages to your audience. Be a Community Advocate, not a Company Evangelist 3.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In the world today, one can get good open-source options for each flavor, meaning, point 2, you have a low initial investment. At risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, I remember back in the internet bubble years of the mid-late 90's when everyone said you just have to "launch and learn."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem. So far – sounds great. But, can it be done?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader.

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