Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards. Photo credit: Drazen Zigic via Getty Images The post Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. m open to any suggestions about what I should be reading! Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology I’m hosting the carnival next week April 11, 2008 (Photo by frankienose ) I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants here, next week. So send in your best of the week! { Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

ClamAV is a popular open-source option. DBAN is one popular open-source option to assist with this. Featured Photo: A Ray Of Light For The Women In Plight by The Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust. Understand if you need to get permission from your manager or IT team to install new software on devices.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Hmmm, think it was that keyword? Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating. Be Helpful.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. Featured Photo: Help Kids Learn How to Code Globally by CoderDojo Foundation. EXPLORE MORE TRENDS.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The main reason it works is that you get to see how your donation was spent, you get photos from the classroom, and you get a personal reply from the teacher or students. My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Using Zeega's simple editor tool, users can put multimedia clips together into a sequence or layer them (such as putting a sound bite with a photo). Shapins said the company plans to open it up to the public soon.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

Upload all the photos you want to display, click on “create gallery” and then “Create a new gallery.” Indeed, message boards teem with useful information that WordPress users, designers and administrators at every level of knowledge and skill share and disseminate. On the post edit screen click on “Add Media” and launch the uploader popup.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Impacts to Society.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Open Government Data. 7 Ways Companies Are Using the Government's Open Data. Strengthening the Demand For and Use Of Open Data Initiatives.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. I attended "In Code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness" at SXSWi on Friday. Although I think we're a fairly open organization, we have a long way to go. Participatory.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I think one of the biggest mistakes that an organization can make with its website is to promise more than it can deliver – make sure that the resources to create that blog, or podcast, or photo gallery, or whatever bells and whistles that you promise on your website, are there when the website goes live. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston, Zoetica. You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit. And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.) I’ve always really liked ThinkPads, and have owned a couple over the years to run Linux on. resides in Google’s data centers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Photo by Beth. Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You A few months ago, I wrote about a report from Charlene Li that discovered that deep engagement with social media correlates with financial performance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming. If you don’t fall into either of these categories, but you enjoy the photos of fluffy kittens, more power to you. And LOLnptech seems to have quite the following (just not me.) I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. applications, provided their data via open APIs, it would help other nonprofits, and the sector as a whole. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music. WordPress Platform overview: WordPress is a free, open-source CMS, meaning anyone can view and change the software’s code to suit their needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball. I invite you to check back on our website for ongoing updates about our work.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. Additions: Photos, email notifications, email blasts, and calendaring features. Directory: Using the "My Friends" module, ability to view others photos, and information. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Dar Veverka and Shun Kosaka posing for a photo together for the first time at the Community Sprint event at Dreamforce 2022. Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. What Is Web 2.0? The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Citizen journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. The blog uses the open source WordPress software with a free WordPress template. And thanks to WordPress' open theming, we can change out the design at any time. That can wait for later.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Long-time Mozilla community Ken Saunders reached out to Tutors for All and is volunteering to redesign their website , while Yale’s Free Culture Club is hosting an educational event on Free and Open Source Software. Get on out there and make a difference!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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