Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I’ve been working with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) for more than 5 years. I think the two organizations together will provide a really strong focus for advocacy and resources for open source development and use in the nonprofit sector. See the press release for more detail.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. It’s very basic. You can nest menus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new theme! Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine). We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

Kern+Lead, The Associated Press, and Harvard - in a collaborative effort to bring an agency-level presence to nonprofits." We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Together as a group we can make The Networked Nonprofit a best seller AND help kids in Cambodia! In addition, the guiding principles in the book will help your nonprofit transform itself into a networked nonprofit that can address many pressing social change issues.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Check out Engadget's hands-on review of the ZTE Open C. trillion more in GDP (source: Deloitte). Image 2: Samsung press. Internet.Org: Mobile to the Masses. Security Alert. Image 1: miuet.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Designing and building apps: Caravan Studios is a division of TechSoup that uses a community-centric process — generate, design, select, build — to develop technology solutions that address pressing social problems. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Through this R&D Center, we are working to revolutionize the availability of accessible images and tactile graphics by targeting standards and developing open source tools that help close the gap between what technology can do automatically and what requires expert human work.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide to nonprofit courses provides guidance for choosing courses that are best suited for nonprofit staff learning, including open source vs. paid learning opportunities, subject matter analysis, and some example courses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

NTEN's publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press. In Issue 7 of NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders , we approach the challenges and opportunities of data for nonprofit organizational leaders.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Last night, there was a couple setting next to me who once airborne, opened their laptops and started talking. Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. The food is decent, the is leg room in economy, it's clean, and there is wifi.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. And people in orgs hear all this buzz about this thing or that thing, and feel hard pressed and stressed to get on the bandwagon. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? Be Helpful.

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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

JULY 5, 2011

Tattlr - "open source" says Gordon Dymowski on MetroShrink. It has been eye-opening to find out from them what their needs. You can track who opens it, when they open it, and if they click and give. About Net2 Think Tank: Net2 Think Tank is a monthly blogging/social networking event open to.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Never again will Holly have to say, "No, 'M' as in 'Mother' Power, not 'N' as in 'Nancy' Power" That's probably for the best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. Here's the official press release ). most pressing needs. Photo by Noneck. Gradually, we???ve ve hired and mentored fifty-seven Cambodians who???ve Dr. Nancy Hendrie.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

@NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. wakot of everyday sustainable suggested I contact Karen Henke of Nimble Press for ideas. She also said I should check out the work of @ leighBlackall at Otago Polytechnic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

There is a free online open-source software program that supports the development of these Socioeconomic Statements. Sources: ^ [1] Mook, Quarter, Richmond, “ What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives ”, 2nd ed., Sigel Press, 2007, pg. Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J.

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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. Here's here write up on word press. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets. The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Here's the background information from the press release. the best aspects of grassroots activism and digital technology combined with an open source ethos to really change the way we participate in elections.??? Please participate ??? we need lots and lots of voices heard on Election Day! s go and ???tweet??? this election!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. In so doing, we launched Benetech’s newest program, SocialCoding4Good.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map. Fundraising.

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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. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications. young people???

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