Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” And, when you teach them to be more efficient with programming, you’ll save money and create a larger impact! Learning is truly an everlasting endeavor.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

I’ve combined my passion for teaching nonprofits effective social media practice with raising money on social networks to support disadvantaged Cambodia children and young people. From the beginning, I’ve opened sourced everything I’ve learned so you too could apply the lessons to your work.

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

They will listen and learn, teach and share, inspire and mobilize -- all to engage more volunteers in the critical task of building stronger communities.". "For a few days in June, thousands of people will come to Washington, D.C. Thousands of volunteers will convene in D.C. for this year''s NCVS.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

and Pop Up Podcasts teach library users to operate audio and visual equipment to record, edit, and produce content. To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. Escondido Library's LibraryYOU. Why Tell Stories with Video?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Power source. hardware open source' Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5 600 mA (3.0 What About You?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs. We’ve even heard some customers say they paid up to $15,000 to do this!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. “By

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

On another note, I got an email from Javier Solas (interviewed the Linux Chix on his staff last fall) from Open Institute who has been leading the Khmer OS project and building the educational technology plan for Cambodia letting me know of major project milestone: The Cambodian Education System Changes to Open Source Software and KhmerOS.

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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

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

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. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit. “itâ??s

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

We know that one size does not fit all, when it comes to teaching and learning about online security. One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). Teaching Privacy to Library Patrons. There's more! Online Security for Libraries. Tips and Advice. spanhidden.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

He draws from engineering, teaching, and volunteer experiences, and is passionate about helping nonprofits and NGOs make better use of software technology. Allen will add an Open Source Software perspective to John's explanations of hardware, software, and networks. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author. NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube. Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We envision taking ProvingIt to an open-source platform, and ultimately offering it across the sector to those who share our desires: to track progress, to be honest about failure, to transform conversations with donors, and to measure impact not just once, but over long periods of time. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

You’ll get more control with this open-source software, but you’ll also benefit from having the backing of those larger companies behind you. For instance, if you’re hosting a virtual talent show, you might ask all your participants to submit a video of their performance to your nonprofit. Facebook and YouTube represent 3.4%

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Then, if you haven't already, jump on the Cluetrain : be open, honest, and direct. While you should be wary of anybody promising to teach you how to make people laugh, some of the advice itself can be pretty funny. You might also consider taking some advice from a 67-year-old blogger. Humor helps, too. Here are 60 advanced tutorials.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. Or, they’ll call you because the website really is down. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Library Case Study Studies Instruction 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0 tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Keynote welcome.

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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. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?). Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? 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.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Still, it’s one that is supported by Open Source, adopted by large nonprofit-serving businesses such as Oracle/NetSuite and Unit4, and creating an opening (and teaching tool) for even new-to-nonprofit technology solutions to understand basic service needs for nonprofits as supported by data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. The two organizations are using technology to bridge this racial divide.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a rehab teacher, it seems to be what I teach most of the time these days, since there are so many apps that facilitate independent living." It almost seems like a more open source approach - allowing a key community to provide guidance and insight into tech development to allow them to better access software and hardware tools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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