Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

US Agency for International Development has run an interesting contest to identify innovative ideas in mobile computing for international development. They got some interesting nominations and have identified the top three winners : * Child Malnutrition Surveillance and Famine Response. Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 8 Pete 06.25.08

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good. We want to rock the sector.).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. TechSoup holds an annual Digital Storytelling Contest and provides resources for organizations to better tell their stories. Create Documentaries for Your Cause. To get inspired, check out these projects made with Zeega.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" > Learn more about the contest at [link]. They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. And that essentially would boil down to a big old pissing contest. (“Yes! That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07 Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The contest is nationwide, asking young folks age 13-18 to submit their project, company, or however they like to define it, and five each in three categories are awarded $5,000. A winner from each category gets an additional $5,000 plus a pitch-off with T-Mo brass, and a chance for a final $5,000 check. Pictured at top).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together! They're breaking into groups and taking turns bringing home-cooked meals for lunch, y'all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Details are here.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use. Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog. Global NpTech. What's Hiafux

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. NTEN's " What Inspires You " on Blip.TV More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more. Isovera Visit Isovera at Booth 51 and grab a handy "Got Open Source?" Here’s a great opportunity to participate in SmartOnline’s ‘Invent Your Mobile App’ Contest, and explore these possibilities!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Freecharity.org.uk

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

NPTech Contests and Awards. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who shares your contests? Here are some of our favorite from Qgiv’s list of virtual fundraising ideas : Virtual bingo night Photo or cooking contests Virtual scavenger hunt Classes, tutorials, or webinars Online game-a-thon. Before Giving Tuesday, start going through your social media accounts.

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Gyrus

JULY 10, 2024

Besides content, an LMS platform can engage online learners through a host of other resources like online examinations, daily quizzes, contests, and eLearning videos. They can absorb relevant information by accessing online learning modules of their choice. That’s precisely where GyrusAim comes to the fore.

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Gyrus

JULY 10, 2024

Besides content, an LMS platform can engage online learners through a host of other resources like online examinations, daily quizzes, contests, and eLearning videos. They can absorb relevant information by accessing online learning modules of their choice. That’s precisely where GyrusAim comes to the fore.

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Gyrus

JULY 10, 2024

Besides content, a LMS platform can engage online learners through a host of other resources like online examinations, daily quizzes, contests, and eLearning videos. To leverage the benefits of an open-source LMS, organizations must invest in the right solution. Monitoring and tracking their learning progress.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! The other contest finalists will also see their underlying content expand with time, but Datamasher will get geometrically (exponentially?!) Datamasher is full of lots of open-source goodness.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, users have been fleeing to other social apps like open source microblogging platform Mastodon and niche communities like CounterSocial. Now, another social app called Hive is seeing a boost in sign-ups in response to the upheaval at Twitter. ” Sus!

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The Russian actor tracked by Microsoft is affiliated with a military intelligence unit and is the same group that hacked and leaked Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential contest. Microsoft said. That’s what they all say! Makena Kelly / The Verge ). GitHub has become a repository for censored documents during the coronavirus crisis.

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