Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Guest blog by Pavi Mehta, Volunteer Coordinator Open source champion Mozilla.org kicked off seven days of service earlier this month: September 14-21st thousands of people donated over 6000 hours of their time to good causes in their communities as part of Mozilla Service Week.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. The Internet has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to online nonprofit tech education. You betcha! But what if you learn best face-to-face or with a group?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). It is working on creating the largest online library of information and tutorials on Internet-based products. Techboomers' tutorial, How Secure Is My Password? , Online Security for Libraries.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educators, though, there are tutorials and projects that are a bit more practical. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. hardware open source' A quick Google search of Raspberry Pi projects produces a long list of ideas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

John has great tutorials that walk you through Facebook marketing and also offers great insight in his blog posts, such as Why Facebook Marketing Feels so Impossible. They provide in-depth reports comparing open source content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 Scores of additional articles, guides and tutorials to help newcomers and veterans alike get better acquainted with this fast-moving space. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Cleveland, Ohio: Tableau Tutorial: Free Data Visualization for Nonprofits. Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Thursday, June 8, 2017.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Of course, to follow all this advice, you need to know your way around PhotoShop (or its open source equivalent, the GIMP). Here are 60 advanced tutorials. Don't forget to take your users into account ! Important topics: layers , masks , and the clone tool. No, really: say "Djibouti" It'll cheer you up.).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Whether social media posts or YouTube tutorials, weekly blog posts or podcasts, there’s no denying that we’re in a content creation golden age. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. Growth in User-Generated Content. Looking to expand their learning businesses.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2006

What is the Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box? Open Publishing NGO-in-a-box : "he Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and distributing content.

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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

MARCH 23, 2007

One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. The Donor Blog condenses it into two ways !

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

The website includes many resources including guidelines and tutorials - suggested by Amanda Ward via Linkedin. 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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Here are some of our favorite from Qgiv’s list of virtual fundraising ideas : Virtual bingo night Photo or cooking contests Virtual scavenger hunt Classes, tutorials, or webinars Online game-a-thon. Even though you can really make any Giving Tuesday campaign idea work online, it may still help to have a few more ideas.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems. Build all the things! Create as much as you can, no matter how small the scale.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Educational Resources: Prioritize builders that provide extensive educational resources, including knowledge bases, video tutorials, webinars, and community forums. Open-source: Free to use and modify, offering greater control over your website’s code and data. Scalable: Grows with your organization as your needs evolve.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Better yet, Aplos offers a detailed tutorial to help your staff and volunteers navigate the software with ease. It’s ideal for nonprofits just getting their footing, since it’s easy to use and open-source. For years, TurboCASH has consistently received raving reviews as one of the best options for free accounting software.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Here are the popular tools you might look into: OBS is a free and open-source software that can be used for video recording and livestreaming. Specifically, videos can be used to: Create tutorials to introduce supporters to your larger virtual event platform. Interested in livestreaming your next virtual event?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. There’s also the GIMP Basics tutorial, which is more geeky, but still manageable. is a free open source application.

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