Tech Soup

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. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software. Project Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Tags: Consulting Nonprofit Tech nptech opensource tools web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

You can think of it as a multi-project version of Trac , which is a fabulous ticketing/wiki system that we were initially going to go with. And the wiki is nice. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Tags: Consulting Nonprofit Tech nptech opensource tools web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Note from Beth: As part of the research for our book, Allison Fine and I are looking at transparency and openness what it means for the way nonprofits do their work. Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I’ll do another few posts for other areas, like development, system maintenance, personal web presence, and writing. (If I have definitely noticed that I’ve been migrating a lot of functionality of things that I do to web-based apps of one type or another, and this is one example of that. It works for multiple projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. The etoolkit wiki is here. It came from this open project: [link]. through an open, collaborative process." A facilitated workshop. We are doing that.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The President-elect's transition web site itself is allowing people to participate, with the "Your Seat at the Table" feature with which people can track transition meetings with interest groups and leave comments for the transition team. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators. Red Cross [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

I noticed that Jenny Ambrozek , someone who thinks deeply about networks in a business context, re-tweeted one of my musings on network leadership skill sets. She pointed me to her fabulous deck and wiki on the topic. Going through her wiki connected me back to the thought leaders in this area, like Patti Anklam.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The question arose as to whether or not it was worth thinking about shifting some of that communications traffic from email lists to the web in some form. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. I’ve blogged about Elgg before.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

She has also shared her slides and wiki here. I'm a big fan of the "wikitation" and think that a wiki coupled with slide share is a great way to do it. I also include their blog urls in the accompanying wiki. " It would lead to a contribution. Nancy White gave the Keynote at the D2L conference in Duluth yesterday.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

February 12, 2010, and promises to be “more than just a conference on the next generation web.&# Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! As people register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki. NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., Unconference here. About Nonprofit 2.0. NonProfit 2.0

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

What is Web 2.0 by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. User generated content - Web 2.0

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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. an integration of PloneFormGen with Salesforce.com for web-to-lead forms, etc. an integration of PloneFormGen with Salesforce.com for web-to-lead forms, etc. Tags: CRM salesforce Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS plone. A PayPal integration product.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Similar to Open Atrium and Jive , Commons blends web content management and enterprise 2.0 functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. In our experience, this often works better for cross-organizational communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The idea was that why keep this goldmine of learning locked up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? and Katya A. Follow her trail here.

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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. " suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. And if Web 2.0 generators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

On October 17 and 18th, I will have the honor of participating in an interactive convening , hosted by GEO and the Monitor Institute focused on how funders can increase their impact by supporting networks and embracing more open and collaborative approaches to grantmaking. Check out these posts for background: Networked Funders Wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing. wiki that Michele Martin created.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Open Source Hardware: can it be done ? Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $. The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. I hope so, and I’m looking forward to see its progress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Opening Plenary: 45 minutes. Identify objectives, audience, and strategy execution to effectively integrate social media into your organization’s overall web communications plan so it supports your organization’s mission. Q&A & Backchannel: 15 minutes. Break: 10 minutes. Breakout Sessions (choose one): 60 minute.

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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 He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has. All of the video clips came from searching ???net

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Web Producer. Internet Director. Online Campaigner.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. We think Watchitoo.

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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. Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. Web Developer, TerpSys. In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. Dan Mouyard is an accomplished web developer at TerpSys with over ten years of experience. By Stuart Holland, Sr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09 We’re really behind the concepts of cloud computing and Web 2.0. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. Is this a problem? I think so.

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