Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Human Resources Management (HRM). Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. 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). "Open source software exists in the computer industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

What capacity/resources are in place? This means everything from physical resources to knowledge and staff to the entire network. What roles or resources are needed? Whatever it is, we need to identify the people/roles and resources needed to make it successful. In the case of CTX, the sweet spot had key words like: open.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Kathy shared one of those experiments, The Organizational Effective Program wiki. They put information about their program, things they have learned and resources they like out on the wiki. They’ve posted their research questions and research plan on the wiki. It’s culture change—a new way of working.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. Four or five years to adoption: 3D Printing (K-12/Higher Ed), Remote/Virtual Labs (K-12), Wearable Technology (Higher Ed).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. Opening Plenary: 45 minutes. Now, the content from We Are media is available to you in a brand new “ Choose Your Own Expert &# format. Q&A & Backchannel: 15 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here. net neutrality???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration. from Plone/SF Integration group ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

LinkedIn’s recent announcements to allow users the option to add volunteer service to their profiles and to provide expanded resources for nonprofits have generated a lot of buzz. Additional Resources. Nonprofit Social Media Wiki: LinkedIn. But what does this really mean for nonprofit organizations and their missions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. We opened with a plenary session providing an opportunity for participants to introduce themselves and do a couple of icebreakers.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. " More Hackathon Resources. Here are even more hackathon resources from TechSoup and beyond: Want to host your own hackathon? meets LinkedIn for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. today contribute 1 example of a great digital story, tomorrow contribute 1 digital story-telling resource).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

If you ask open-ended questions, you typically only get criticism. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki. As I have written before, it is important to not only have good openers for your training, but also good closers. Closing Circle.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. hardware open source' Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5 600 mA (3.0 Power source.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

My son lent me his Robot Voice Disguiser which was good for an opening laugh, but the chimes were preferable. Some techniques I'm using for workshops that have become standard for me: Wikitation: A wikitation (word coined by Allan Levine, Cogdog Blog) is a wiki that you use to share you presentation slides and links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Technology for Communities project.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

More Resources. Here are some more resources for implementing digital tools and campaigns into your organization: TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki. For more on cloud computing and nonprofits, see TechSoup's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey results. Eight Secrets of Effective Online Networking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. Pages should be open to comments and fans should be made to feel comfortable commenting and sharing content.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. Public voting process. The basics include: Show impact in real time.

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APRIL 22, 2010

" He continues: "So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product to capture this big opportunity. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. We will phase out our free service." www.groupsite.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Until then, consider visiting the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or the following if you'd like to learn more about Twitter: What type of tweets get retweeted most?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO. The slides and notes with links to loads of resources and examples can be found here. The wiki is under "by" 2.0 Feedback appreciated.

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APRIL 17, 2009

In turn, the typewriter brought about and helped to accelerate social change, opening up new jobs for women in the office. Another Twitter follower, Holger Nauheimer, pointed me to his blog on change management which has lots of resources. Changes in Business and the Workplace. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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AUGUST 9, 2007

San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. To date, they have created a community blog and a resource-rich wiki, and have held mixed-reality events, workshops, and regular weekly town hall meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) I wish all nonprofits understood this! Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use.

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