Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Their SaaS offering is called “NC Grow&# , which provides sets of fairly simple CMS templates to start with, designed for organizations that, in their words, “are ready to reap the benefits of richer online marketing and communications, but may not have the resources or expertise in place to make such a website come to life&#.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations. It also provides deep discounts on additional licenses, products, and services. It ultimately would have saved both time and money.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. On my first day, my new boss explained the basics of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), writing HTML tags on a legal pad as he went along. Photo: Ming Xia , CC license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! One important design concept for this project is creative commons licensing - which allowed the community to remix, reuse, or repurpose the content. What exactly does a staff person, whether full or part-time do on behalf of their organization? How do you scale?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

s so much easier than the running battles with designers or having to administer them,??? Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley Simply tagging your photos with the right tag can help other Flickr users find them. Simply tagging your photos with the right tag can help other Flickr users find them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." and licensing models. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. " "For geeks only."

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

If your LMS doesn’t make it easy for your association to keep up with this evolution, you’ll quickly fall behind the times. When that guidance is released, your association will want to provide CE to members in a timely, but still effective manner. Responsive design. Offline use with automatic sync.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. it takes time for people shift their desktop habit. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

A well-designed performance management system will, in other words, help an organization become more effective at serving people and at raising money in an increasingly competitive market. Designing A Successful Performance Management System. Now it's time for the implementation of a performance management data system.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Tags: community guest blogging online communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The museums cared about participants connecting with artworks and identifying them properly, whereas the Wikimedians cared more about participants sharing images under open legal licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." Jim laughed and told me that the photo was in the public domain so I could blog it anyway I wanted and that he was going to change the default license. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

Many of us were digusted earlier this month to learn that once again Yahoo had cooperated with the Chinese authorities' request to turn over a citizen's private records, this time the discussion group threads of 35 year-old Li Zhi. The design patterns all have accessibility sections - which is great to see. It's certainly big news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. David and I had our first skype call to begin to design the session. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Remember the road trips where you valiantly combated boredom by collecting license plates from different states? With Google or Flickr , you can try to guess the tag associated with a set of images. At first glance, these games seem like bizarre time-wasters. Tags: web2.0 Playing 20 questions?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. The meat is people coming together to design exhibits. I don't see Second Life as the meat of this project.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. This time, I want to talk about the codevelopment process--how we are taking these virtual exhibits and transforming them into floor-ready interactive experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. I think the issue is not so much with the tool, but with terrible presentation design. And, depending on the license, you are free to use many of them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Do you set limits on time, on topics? The organization has to be willing to put in the time. Time is also a barrier. Via a now defunct site, design site license, I stumbled on Blogger and was blown away. I was a freelance writer at the time and so it made sense to me. Setting up a blog is easy.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. Further, you can categorize and tag elements to reuse them across courses. What is course authoring software? per month. iSpring Suite.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2015

There’s loads of competition, limited donor pools to draw from and administrative hurdles that require time and talent to overcome. But with Animoto it’s easy to craft professional-looking videos in minutes: just upload photos or clips and the program allows you to add in pre-licensed music and additional video clips.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2017

That way, the organization could design it with them rather than arbitrarily deciding what the key aspects were to include within it. In order to meet these objectives, Chayn's DIY Online Privacy Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Chayn's Crowdsourced Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often. Then I asked everyone to take a few minutes to write again on the sticky notes, this time about things they like about the Foundation. He also tags us, likes our posts, comments, shares and posts on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. Simi says that one of the big advantages of using Salesforce is that "everyone is on the same page at the same time", all the information is in one place, and everyone knows where to update it. . Managing Events .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

He was talking poetry, but over time I’ve found it to be one of the most useful, challenging ways to approach a range of situations. So now, after almost a year of Game Fridays, it’s time for a change. All of the project ideas and virtual creations will be shared under a Creative Commons license, so the content truly is open to all.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects--things that people want to share with each other? The roles are fluid and can be redefined each time you have an interaction on the site. Could museums create a viable business model based on traveling exhibits and licensing fees alone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

" The link will take you directly to the screencast , but I also went to the trouble of putting together some extensive program notes that will help you explore widgets in more depth and provides credits to all the wonderful cc licensed material I used in the screencast. Many widgets I came across are designed to work with various Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

Most people think this requires designing more sophisticated content (and it can). We don’t need to design new content; we have to change the way we invite visitors to use the content we already have. People are going to steal your images no matter what your license scenario is. design usercontent. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

And yet this reward, mixed with an intelligent project design, are enough to make this project attractive to people all over the world. People shared stories of coming back to visit their creations again and again, seeing how the ocean and other people had altered their designs. No one likes to have their time wasted.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

I introduce these notes with three general observations: Some leaders are more radical than I hoped, and these people have a hard time advocating for change when their accountability is to those who have not changed. I came out of this experience feeling like we spent too little time talking about change. Let’s change that.

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