Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. ASU found that a significant population of its community were already using Slack, making it an ideal choice for a new collaboration tool. In the 2020 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report was released at 12NTC yesterday and it’s already stirring up discussions about how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their fundraising and communications strategy. Open Source Software Takes Over #1 Spot for House Social Networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 5, 2011

Fluxx | Open Source Grants Management. tags: cryptography secure communication toblog. tags: toblog women technology developers. tags: grants CRM opensource toblog nptech. Catch My Fame » jQuery Before/After Plugin. tags: jquery plugin image toblog. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

To alleviate these challenges, in “ ArchGym: An Open-Source Gymnasium for Machine Learning Assisted Architecture Design ”, accepted at ISCA 2023 , we introduced ArchGym, which includes a variety of computer architecture simulators and ML algorithms. The impact of a diverse dataset and dataset size on the normalized RMSE.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. Nonprofit organizations often tackle complex problems with hard-to-communicate ideas and sometimes, static, 2D images and videos aren’t enough to explain the problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital communications and fundraising campaigns are built. Having a vision for your next website design is very important so that you can communicate your needs clearly to those involved in the redesign process. that your nonprofit uses.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Provides robust, flexible support for all forms of fundraising, membership, marketing, and communications. It could also open the door to an open source project.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Smallstep founder and CEO Mike Malone calls big, distributed systems his happy place, but these systems involve a lot of machine-to-machine communications, an area identity vendors haven’t been able to solve. The company launched in 2016 and launched their first open source product a couple of years ago.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2021

They have been instrumental in launching an open-sourced DEI benchmark survey for our ecosystem, as well as influencing how Salesforce.org Alliances could help drive equity in the partner ecosystem and beyond. The post From One-Way Communication to Stakeholder Engagement appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I know they are becoming an increasingly important tool for nonprofits in communicating with their constituents, and so I do keep them in my peripheral vision, for sure. I love to write blog entries about successful open source efforts – like CiviCRM, or the amazing stuff people are doing in the mobile space.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

We are excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized as a 2021 Communicator Awards winner of 12 awards in six different categories! The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications. I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

He helps women-led communications teams free up their time and lock down WordPress from getting hacked. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. By Chuck Spidell , a Nonprofit WordPress Security Expert with ILLUSIO.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Data Leadership Open Source Strategy Communications' Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

With a modest core team of six, and its founder just winning the 2014 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest at the 14NTC, learn how CiviCRM is helping nonprofit communities worldwide build relationships with their constituents. civiCRM community Community CRM Open Source Open Source IT Staff'

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

But while emails and text chat are useful and of course very common now, they aren’t a replacement for face-to-face communication, and unfortunately there’s no easy way for signing to be turned into written or spoken words, so this remains a significant barrier.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2013

Data interactive maps Leadership mapping MS-DS nptech nten Open Source Paul Chamberlain Strategy Communications' In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 19, 2014

Snowden taught us that governments are vacuuming up every shred of communications they can. Encrypt all personally identifiable information with strong, open source crypto, and take a big step on the road towards doing no harm while bringing the benefits of technology to the world''s most vulnerable populations!' Think about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

open source, etc. Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM. Under my hat is a blog post about open source and SaaS. I’m still watching the fallout on this one. It’s going to be interesting. It might be interesting. {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects. Giving developers permission to contribute to open source can make them feel more valued.

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TechSpot

APRIL 22, 2022

This open-source communications protocol is used worldwide to connect industrial systems like power grids and other critical infrastructure. At this year's Pwn2Own, security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade decided to tackle an industrial control software called "OPC UA."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Secure messaging app Telegram has launched an alpha version of one-on-one video calls on both its Android and iOS apps, the company announced , saying 2020 had “highlighted the need for face-to-face communication.”. In April, Telegram announced it would launch group video calls later this year.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

It incorporates an impressive 671 billion parameters 10x more than many other popular open-source LLMs supporting a large input context length of 128,000 tokens. DeepSeek-R1 a Perfect Example of Test-Time Scaling DeepSeek-R1 is a large mixture-of-experts (MoE) model. The model also uses an extreme number of experts per layer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

5 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Worst Nonprofit Website Mistakes? I got some interesting answers: Ken, at the Nonprofit Consulting Blog, talks about transparency , and how it’s a big mistake not to be transparent. Check This List 07.28.08 Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Yet, traditional media remained the undisputed king of communication, and the era of professional blogs (including the one you’re reading) was still a distant dream.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 16, 2009

It also provides a collection of Hands-on Guides, each of which includes a particular freeware or open source software tool, as well as instructions on how you can use that tool to secure your computer, protect your information or maintain the privacy of your Internet communication.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Can you really communicate your life’s accomplishments and skill-set through an 8.5 These manufactured documents might help weed you out from the obvious “hell no” candidates, but do a poor job of communicating your capabilities. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. I write for fun.

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