Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

I read CogDog's about how difficult it is to add contacts in LinkedIn, I scratched my head and then realized he was a mac user (not that there is anything wrong with that and I plan to switch soon myself). But I add contacts via a toolbar integrated with Outlook. Or maybe I'm just a contact W * (rhymes with more). t show the.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Embrace open source. I’m absolutely amazed by the number of non-technical hiring managers and CEOs who are still wary of open source developers. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves. The same should be true for open source developers. Full Contact offers paid paid vacation.

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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. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters). So, I've been looking for a good reason to link over to them and now I found it! He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Open source projects do get better. 3) Evolution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

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. They face intense surveillance and state-sponsored harassment by skilled and well-resourced attackers who want access to their sensitive information and their network of contacts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. If you’re looking for a website agency specifically for nonprofits, you can start your research by contacting Bureau for Good , Elevation , Taoti , and Constructive. that your nonprofit uses.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Instead, the company is creating a new business, to go with existing units like Tidal and Cash App, which is “focused on building an open developer platform with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial services.”. Open roadmap, open development, and open source.

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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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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.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Importantly, Amazon also says it will be open-sourcing the technology, allowing other companies to quickly replicate and deploy these devices in a range of locations. Amazon isn’t the only company using machine learning in this way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. If you're so moved, here's where EFF points you to taking action by contacting your elected representatives: Take Action | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Wonderful stuff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

While hiring is the company’s primary focus initially, with its inaugural product opening for recruiters in closed beta this week, Grineva sees a broad gamut of use cases beyond helping companies fill technical roles. simply facilitating “cold-callers” looking to contact developers en masse? . profile example.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. Be Helpful.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2021

US soldiers stationed in Europe may have accidentally exposed information about the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile when they used flashcard apps to help them remember details about the information, according to a report from open-source intelligence outlet Bellingcat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. You may want to contact Christian Perrier as He’s Debian’s head translation guy and someone who was involved in the Bhutan effort. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved. According to Birsan, most of the companies he contacted about the exploit were able to quickly patch their systems so they were no longer vulnerable.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There are multiple messaging apps active in Southeast Asia and most consumers prefer to use them over email when they contact a business. Another example is its Contact Merge tool. The Contact Merge tool uses an algorithm to identify returning customers, even if they start using a different channel for messages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

They also are opening a new data center, as well as bringing Akamai technology into the mix. The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) They will also be doing some serious UI overhauls, and upgrading their CMS. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.) I’ve always really liked ThinkPads, and have owned a couple over the years to run Linux on. resides in Google’s data centers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with. I get to use my expertise in web application development, but not have to do any web application development (which feels to me a lot like having my cake and eating it too.) And, I get to be agnostic. Be Helpful.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts,” then tap “Videos and Photos.”. Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts” and tap on it. Finally, once you find “Autoplay,” you can turn off the feature. Using the Android app. Click the menu button at the top right of your screen. Using Microsoft Edge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I sat for hours (or days) at a time in front of my screen without contact with the folks I was doing the work for. And, if there was contact, it was most often on the level of “can you fix this?&# “can you add this feature?&# But that was a pale shadow of the kind of work and contact I wanted with my clients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.). What’s involved in this?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. Contact us so we can help figure this out. For more information about donor data migration, data management, and data planning, please contact us. The vendor services can be more expensive than, say, an independent consultant.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Du, a Harvard dropout, and Mojicam, who skipped college altogether, met after the former emailed the latter about speaking at an open-source conference. Bain had contacted the startup then, stayed in touch, and later did due diligence on it by talking about Alloy with e-commerce startups in its own portfolio. Why $4 million?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The Mozilla Foundation supposedly has been working on an integrated email/calendar/contacts system, but they are spinning off Thunderbird , and Sunbird (the calendaring app) is coming along slowly. Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

These open source tools include apps and tools for encrypting emails, texts, browsing history, and even phone calls. TextSecure (Android, iOS coming soon) uses end-to-end encryption protocols to lock down your messages to your contacts. apps surveillance open source security mobile apps privacy data'

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. On the surface, it appears to be a platform that allows for real-time rich media collaboration with a Google spin. I don’t want the Internet to just throw data at me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. The API is SOAP. Be Helpful.

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