Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It works for multiple projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Trio is an integration of SugarCRM, Joomla, and a credit card payment system. This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless.

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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. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Power source.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, and edit content quickly and easily. For an example of a wiki, see TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media Page for Beginners. Mobile Optimization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Check out the wiki. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate?

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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. This system allows families to search through images taken post-earthquake in Haiti, and specify certain characteristics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2005

My colleague, David Geilhufe , recently announced the first public beta release of CiviCRM/OpenNGO, an open-source contact management system for non-profits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Pretty cool, huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware, Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wiki's to Google Earth and Twittter. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change. You can read more about their work here [link].

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

In the past, civic infrastructure included town halls, the highway system, and government R&D labs. We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. s Social Media Desk, Independence Year Foundation, The Center for Community Change, Student PIRGs, PBS, Video the Vote, Election Suppression Wiki, Women Donors Network, and Demos. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. Peter Gulka had plenty to say about the lab.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. We will be launching the full version of the site in March at NTC, at a hackathon we are co-producing with Code for America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. An internal, shared group wiki will allow you to explore different topics (i.e. Most wiki systems also allow you to easily attach documents. A good wiki can easily become the homebase for creative group work. I like Wik.is

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). What do these tools allow you to do?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code. All reports should be logged into a secure central system managed by the government, similar to how NHTSA manages vehicle reports.

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