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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I remember the day I told my wife, Virginia, that I’d do this “nonprofit thing” for just one year and then go back to regular for-profit high tech companies. That was over 24 years ago!

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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CountyHealthRankings.org Gives First County-by-County Snapshot of Health in Each State

Forum One

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. See Virginia's table.) Each state also has an overall ranking table listing the counties from best to worst.

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

Tech Soup

Arlington, Virginia: NTEN September 2014 Happy Hour. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Seattle, Washington: Salesforce Essentials — Training for Nonprofit Organizations. Victoria, Canada: Storie­s from the Rare Sightings of Women in Tech. Friday, September 26, 2014. Saturday, September 27, 2014.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Freecharity.org.uk Can cell phones ensure a free vote?

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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