ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. It's also shockingly economical and far more effective than traditional marketing techniques. Join the open source culture.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

How Non-Profits and Think Tanks Are Pushing Government to Better Leverage Data This post gives examples of how non-profits, foundations and university communities are advocating for evidence-based decision-making, through sponsoring supporting initiatives, and using different tools and techniques as governments open up their data.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story. Andy is a master at storytelling.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging. They also work many different partners to spread the program so that his organization isn’t doing everything.

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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 A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Reflection question from Beth: Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. It's an open source free web meeting service. Fundraising 2.0 It isn't dumb dumb. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2017

To create a unified and professional brand for your nonprofit, you can start by improving your online fundraising strategies with Salsa’s tools or mobilizing movements by starting petitions with their advocacy techniques. Why We Love It. Imagine being able to grow your donor base and keep track of each donor profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Since I dabbled a bit in podcasting before I plunged into vlogging, I got to pick his brains on his techniques, process, and tools. He, like me, prefers free or open source tools and admits that Audacity did have a learning curve and it can be conquered. The show list is here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. Meanwhile, we also use the same traditional technique and we weave something that goes on the back of a barrette.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The tech team has several divisions that, working together, contribute the diversity of skills and techniques our clients need. No one needs to master them all, but you’ll need to have techniques for fast adaptation and skills-building that work for you. Figure out how you like to learn. To succeed, you’ll need to keep learning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

Are community-driven design techniques viable for all kinds of exhibitions (and institutions)? While many people latch on to the Second Life aspect of this project, my primary interest is in the transformation of the exhibit process into a user-generated experience.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. open source. Evaluation. Evaluation explains the effects [on the recipients or the environment] that are expected as a result of transferring or exchanging knowledge.".

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

The most competitive candidates will have the ability to promote Cloud for Good’s #BestTeamEver employer brand and ensure we have the absolute best people on our team. Location: ?Virtual: Virtual: Home-based office in the US or Canada Travel: ?Maximum

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

My web developer colleague and enthusiastic blogger, Bob McDiarmid , told me that a majority of the charity nonprofit websites that he has seen are on either the Drupal or WordPress nonprofit open source platforms. Idealware guide, Comparing Open-Source Content Management Systems. TechSoup Resources.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models. It has a deep understanding of crisis assessment, management techniques and resources to provide effective support to those in need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I very much look forward to your re-emergence from the IT wilderness! 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

During the session, it was pointed out that crowd sourcing is a way to people, organizations, and communities work together for mutual good, and without competing. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Jon notes, "Both substance-wise, and the idea of doing ultra-short "casual" screencasts like this as a training/demonstration technique." It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. " I agree Jing is the thing for doing micro screencasting.

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