Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Building Open-Source Voice Recognition for Good: Can You Help? Would you be willing to donate a recording of yours?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We love SMS because it boasts a 99% open rate, and users are more likely to respond. An open API that allows you to build SMS into your app or product. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Well, free-ish. FrontlineSMS. 05 per message sent, $.03

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Be it web, mobile, social, or emerging technologies such as voice, AR/VR, or mixed reality, Composable Architecture allows for the creation of personalized experiences that are seamless to users and in line with how they’re interacting with organizations and their digital solutions today.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Voice your perspective, especially where you see areas of risk, roadblocks to our goals, or when something can be done in a better way. 7+ years of software development experience with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails is best, but we will consider other open-source backgrounds as well (Python, etc).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. Opening Hearts and Minds. Peter Cheer notes that the Verbally app for iPad offers useful features: an onscreen keyboard with word prediction in combination with word/phrase choices, as well as male/female speech synthesized voices. online community channels.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. You can have openness and security.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The buzz has been going full blast about Google's Open Social API, from TechCrunch to ZDNET. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Open standards help long term.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. A few years down the road, when successive updates of the iPhone get hacked, they will give up, and open it up. at 3:34 pm Why stop at the iPod and iPhones.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

In this Alliance Magazine article David Bonbright, chief executive of Keystone Accountability explains that while the Markets for Good initiative intended to develop a philanthropic ecosystem and social change information marketplace that gave the most marginalized a voice, in reality this has not been the case.

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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. At least three different organizations are required to be on the team so that no one entity can have a louder voice over others. Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. “To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. Wilkinson, ‘All We Can Save’.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice. I haven’t tried really hard to use them to create community (and no one that I know has yet IMed me because they saw I was online from my blog.) But there are some very cool and fun widgets. And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. If you want people to understand what you're trying to accomplish -- and care --they need to see your face and here the inflections in your voice when you tell them about it. Think of it as MS Project lite. Socialcast (or Yammer ).

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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. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It is a must download!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This is always powerful to demonstrate the rapid spread of information and the networked effect - and can help open the possiblities. for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.). link] - One Voice Domestic Violence Community Awareness Walk. The Nonprofit Twitter Pack is here (are you following everyone?).

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

They provide in-depth reports comparing open source content management systems such as Drupal, Joomla, and, WordPress, as well as Constituent Relationship Management systems. NP Voices: Steve MacLaughlin over at Blackbaud recently launched a great podcast series for nonprofit practitioners.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. ″, 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Pick a platform that provides adequate services and start a community, pushing for interoperability and openness. Functionality : graphics quality; APIs for simulation; interface tools; authoring tools; links to 2D web; chat/voice capabilities; support for multiple instances; ADA issues. Legal and Mgmt : open source?;

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Many organizations including the United Nations have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. But there are many, many organizations in the middle of these extreme examples. Blogging takes time, focus, and energy from someone or someones. As for podcasting and vlogging. Be Helpful.

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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. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. It’s very basic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins. Please add your voice — tell us what conversations, articles and resources you’d like to see on Socialbrite.org in the months ahead. Please join the conversation We want this to be your site, too!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

There are several similar services, architecturally, but Crowdrise excels in providing a distinctly new voice and feel - a reminder that there's lots of room for different kinds of messaging. They also do a solid job leveraging the Pavlovian points / badges / stars / stickers that are, like, so hot right now.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Branding is.the art of creating a consistent, recognizable, and clear unified voice or personality that conveys your org's focus, credibility and unique contributions. The challenge of branding in an open source world. This must be real, or it will undermine everything your org is trying to do. BS meters are very sensitive.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Email is a critical channel. design: is it clean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. is the managing editor for Global Voices. Laura Lee Dooley. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Michelle Murrain. Social Change Activists.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'” blog Streetside Stories Mission: "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." Mission: "Spot.Us

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! And data is voice. We need to see data as an expression of the voices. A database!

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is a storytelling medium; use it as the voice for your organization’s most compelling stories. There are several services that allow you to create a podcast directly by leaving a voice message recording. This practice will help your voice sound more natural to your first listeners. Tools and Resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Additionally, many of the apps were built using Twilio.org's SMS and voice APIs. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Data Collecting and Mapping. The first presentation was from Prashant Singh, the CTO and co-founder of LocalData.

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