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Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community. Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too!

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.

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Yahoo Javascript Libraries go OpenSource

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Many of us were digusted earlier this month to learn that once again Yahoo had cooperated with the Chinese authorities' request to turn over a citizen's private records, this time the discussion group threads of 35 year-old Li Zhi. Tags: yahoo , web2.0 , webdev It's certainly big news.

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Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.04.08 Then, for the creepy part.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. And the same applies here: that it is the people that come first, not the technology.

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