Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. There is an underlying optimism that "Of course we are going to change the world for the better using technology!"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Everyone was eager to swap notes and experiences, since the challenges we all face are quite similar.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. 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.)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Technology helps nonprofits deliver on our missions more effectively, but it can also be fiendishly complicated. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Naples, Florida: How to Use Technology to Communicate and Manage Volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Data is transparent because of social media, data visualization, and open data from governments – all helping us to usher a remarkable period in human history. Philanthropy needs to understand how to make best use of open data sets and increasingly disintermediated data that is hard to find. IssueLabs is a great start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. He told the story about the growth and challenges facing the Joomla! Penguin Days. Penguin Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), without leaving the virtual world!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) But widgets are just the beginning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

The Seven Benetech Truths: Social Change Through Technology We Get Stuff Done Right Stuff Right Open Over Proprietary Partnership Over Going Alone Value Flexibility Personal and Professional Development Social Change Through Technology Benetech is about social change first and foremost. Our goal is social change at scale.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Joomla for Nonprofits Is the popular open-source solution to create and edit website content for non-technical users right for you?

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