Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. 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. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems. And the wiki is nice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We found, and have chosen to use Redmine for our project management/ticketing system. 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. Like Basecamp, Redmine has document storage and messaging systems. And the wiki is nice.

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Project Tools Management Wiki 154

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Terrific, a Wiki about skills management! The Wiki really does sum up many important elements of skills management: Definition: The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills. So what IS skills management? This means other people are interested in the subject as well. appeared first on Gyrus.

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Skills Management Wiki Wikipedia 59

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I’ve been a very long time cell phone user (had one since 1998), but I haven’t been involved in implementing a mobile system for an organization, so I had a lot to learn. The place to find reports on what happend is on the wiki. So how do you get SMS data into a database system like CiviCRM? I learned a ton.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management?"

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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 If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It’s not so up to date, and it’s a list more of tools I have used, and some I still use.). It works for multiple projects.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. In a larger scope, individuals who work at nonprofits use systems that capture data and information about them. The ProjectVRM site , a wiki, is a bit daunting to the VRM novice.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills. Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article.

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Skills Management Wikipedia Wiki 59

Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, and edit content quickly and easily. For an example of a wiki, see TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media Page for Beginners. Mobile Optimization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

My sources of inspiration came from my personal learning wiki, WeAreMedia listening resources , and Marnie Webb's slide deck. Important to keep listening - even if nothing much is happening because it serves as your earthquake early warning system -- think of it of having a chronic illness going to acute.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. BrightGreenLiving wiki: crowdsourced knowledge. to change the energy system. The ability to maintain a certain process or state. We’re really talking about using no more resources than we can replenish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. In her spare time, Nancy also moderates online facilitation , another long running Internet discussion list and maintains an excellent wiki , chock full of invaluable resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. This system allows families to search through images taken post-earthquake in Haiti, and specify certain characteristics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

And there is a new menu system, which will make things a lot easier. It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. (I’ll be installing CiviCRM from svn in the next week, and I’ll probably blog more as 2.3 develops.).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

But at a recent project kickoff the bar for success was really low: "Our staff will actually use the system." The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. But both of us had limited success in encouraging our own organizations to use our wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Trio is an integration of SugarCRM, Joomla, and a credit card payment system. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Whether you have don't have any formal data capture or performance management system in place, or you are a system in place that needs tweaking, TechSoup invites you to an upcoming tweetchat. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Join us on October 19 at 10:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

CiviCRM is an open-source nonprofit-focused CRM system with powerful features for campaigns, fundraising, event planning, contact management, and case management. They were also able to move data from multiple systems into one centralized solution. Project Management. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Google Analytics for your Wiki. List of Social Media Management Systems. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Blog posts: How to: Create a Listening Dashboard. 5 Step Social Media Strategy. Google Analytics for Facebook Pages. DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Crowdsourcing vs Community-Sourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” .” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. Beyond the basics, the RPi Hub at the Embedded Linux Wiki is a great resource for programming for Raspberry Pi. Need more RAM or USB ports?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Let begin by telling you what my role is not - it isn't to sit alone and write content and curriculum from scratch and use a wiki as a content management system.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

In any event, here is what the Army, the FRC and RisePak said was needed: - an open GPS system where notes on the disaster could be entered by GPS coordinate or by town or city or road name. - a system where data could be contributed through multiple devices: web browser, cell phone SMS or calls (primary means of input), email and fax. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Internal processes, putting in new phone system. Resources: Further information and relevant links are at the Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission wiki: [link]. Financial, revenue focus. Constituent, starting a newsletter or services. Employee training and growth, bonuses, education, etc. Example: Supporting Criteria.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. TechSoup’s broadband wiki also has some great resources about developing tools, policies and resources for your IT infrastructure. What It Is. Tip: Look at similar. What it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

In this blog post, I will describe the process Wyman used to study how our organization historically captured, stored, used, and shared data, information, and knowledge and how developing a systemic Knowledge Management enterprise will increase our efficiency and performance. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible. He has expertise in the areas of requirements gathering, training, implementing social technologies such as wikis and blogs, and tailoring e-commerce solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

While the ultimate goal is to improve the grantmaking strategy and impact , they are also experimenting with sharing the evaluation process and preliminary findings on the wiki as part of a “ public learning &# process. Transactional capacity building are projects like building a web site or accounting system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

News and World Report rankings has led some institutions to take steps to improve their standing – to game the system, really – that are counter to what is best for their students. An example of the last point, is the Packard OE Wiki that has been dubbed “Public Learning.”

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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