Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Non Profit Quarterly

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Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Finding cost-effective ways to launch new services, having the ability to iterate quickly, providing non-resource intensive access to remote and underserved communities, and creating the most accessible and secure experiences possible, just to name a few. Let’s take a deeper look. What is Composable Architecture?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our first task was to create an efficient solution that would allow us to accept all donations in any currency, and which could support many different languages,” Yaroslav said. They needed to quickly and effectively find a solution to manage the inflow of support from abroad. Making the World Better, Together.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

Additionally, WordPress-related keywords get 37 million searches each month; the program is available in 40 different languages; and 22 percent of new U.S. Awe-inspiring to say the least, given the free and open-source content management system (CMS) is just over a decade old.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!) We passed this milestone in less than 3.5

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the old days, we used to talk about accessibility as something we added to our websites. Today, the conversation has shifted towards making our websites accessible as a key requirement of the development process - for complex reasons and with complex benefits. Topic: How can we build a culture of accessibility?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Jungle light speed: Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing In this post Robert Munro discusses his views on the need to use data in a way that preserves individual rights. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved.

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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. …which will make communication even more important. …which will make communication even more important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. The language (especially in this table ) seems to suggest that the privacy they are providing is better than HIPAA. Here’s why. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld also suggests that organizations move from classic corporate-speak to more natural, emotional language. Getting to natural, emotional language is possible by asking staff about their proudest moments fulfilling your organization's mission. Creating a storytelling culture begins with getting leadership buy-in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian). Ping him over at his blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access! We're actively translating Martus into roughly ten languages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I’ve always loved Excel (and, since I don’t own a copy, I hobble along with Open Office ’s pale, pale substitute.) I’ve thought that it was truly one of the best pieces of software ever written. So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Independent Sector were the sources for determining the average rate and the fringe benefit calculation. These data sources are updated regularly and are easily accessed on the Internet. To access the free software, you can register your organization here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

User Community Having an active user community can significantly enhance the learning experience, offering a place to share best practices, find troubleshooting help, and access templates or assets. Multilingual Capabilities As organizations grow globally, support for multiple languages becomes a critical feature.

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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. . Making radio more accessible in Ghana. It’s very basic.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? Your choice in course authoring software is just as crucial as the tools you choose to deliver the content to learners. What are the best eLearning authoring software? What is course authoring software? Should you invest in an authoring tool?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. Children love it. The privacy concerns are huge, though.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

These brave and bold new solutions are founded on two simple concepts: Your systems should actively recognize and classify constituents using the same language and rules as your organization. The software should automatically recognize them as such the moment they give the gift that puts them over $5,000 for the calendar year.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

The user—or someone they designate—can later retrieve their data, and can search, analyze and report on the information, using the Martus client software. Here’s why this grant is so important to us: Gathering the stories of victims and witnesses puts human rights fieldworkers and their sources at grave risk.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. No more donations to our charity.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A Corporate LMS is a sophisticated software platform meticulously crafted to manage, dispense, and track training and development programs tailored to employees. Organizations are now able to offer training that is more adaptable and accessible. Open-source LMS: Freely available for anyone to use and modify.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A Corporate LMS is a sophisticated software platform meticulously crafted to manage, dispense, and track training and development programs tailored to employees. Organizations are now able to offer training that is more adaptable and accessible. Open-source LMS: Freely available for anyone to use and modify.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A Corporate LMS is a sophisticated software platform meticulously crafted to manage, dispense, and track training and development programs tailored to employees. Organizations are now able to offer training that is more adaptable and accessible. Open-source LMS: Freely available for anyone to use and modify.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

What is a Learning Management System (LMS) Image Source A learning management system or virtual learning environment is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials, or learning and development programs.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

What is a Learning Management System (LMS) Image Source A learning management system or virtual learning environment is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials, or learning and development programs.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Image Source A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application designed to facilitate the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses and training programs. Types of LMS Image Source Learning Management Systems come in various forms with distinct features and deployment options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. He offered to do this guest post about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They sometimes deal with vendors and developers that don’t really understand their mission, don’t speak their language, and don’t tell them the truth (whether intentionally, or by a lack of self-examination.) But I have yet to find a school that has *any* idea how to spend money on technology to actually educate students.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new software bug called Heartbleed has affected a significant number of online servers on the Internet. Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. Cloud storage backs-up files and also gives you working access to them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) I do agree with Jon to some extent. Be Helpful.

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