NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Gregory Heller, CivicActions Not long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. Open source is now mainstream.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Full details about this opportunity to explore open source software are at [link]. Sessions will include: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. and Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Creative Commons And Open Content.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2009

She's going to sort out some of the differences between the three and make sense of it all, in terms even non-geeks can understand. . Tags: OSS NPTech NTEN laura quinn websites foss content management CMS 09NTC. Thank goodness we have Laura Quinn, Executive Director at Idealware.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The culture of the Ruby and Rails world, the open source, community-driven, gift economy meritocracy, is very different than the Salesforce.com world – proprietary, business oriented, certifications-focused world. And the great thing is that our company has had such a marriage for a couple of years now, and it works.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

The idea is to take advantage of a PDF’s ability to retain a consistent appearance across different computer systems: to simplify the job of the newsletter editor, who must put together a lot of different reports submitted by the various committee chairs; to enable readers to share the newsletter easily, regardless of.( read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Oh what a difference a year or so makes.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 25, 2009

If you work at times on different computers, carrying a USB loaded with free portable software can save you time and help to ensure security - there's no need to download and install the software you need or to risk your data on someone else’s hard drive.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech open source software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

CharityTuesday : This hashtag is very popular on Twitter, but people use it in different ways. nptech : This hashtag stands for nonprofit technology and can be used in any Tweets relevant to how nonprofits are use technology and social media. Example Tweet: Nice use of Animoto by United Cerebral Palsy: [link] || #nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 8, 2009

In an over-extended and understaffed small non-profit, rushing to do seven different things at once, deleting the wrong file is an error that can happen all too easily. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office open source software. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be a crisis! read more ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. However in the NPTech world, I often forget I’m Canadian. ” Where Jason Gets His NPTech Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

What I wonder is whether difference audiences are being reached? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. However in the NPTech world, I often forget I’m Canadian. ” Where Jason Gets His NPTech Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. You can’t have different kinds of pages, or different kinds of blog posts, or some other content type (news, events, etc.) that aren’t one or the other.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

NTEN is, to my mind, a critically important organization in the ecosystem that is the Nonprofit Technology field, as the convener of the gathering that anchors the community, as well as a unique and necessary multi-dimensional resource at the regional and national levels for all sorts of constituents in the nptech world. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Also, Danah Boyd does an analysis of linking behavior on blogs and differences by gender. Technorati Tags: blogher nptech This is not only important to bloghers, but also niche communities such as nonprofits and nonprofit technology bloggers as well. Via Nancy White.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. " Findhabeas. Freecharity.org.uk

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. 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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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

If you know someone who’s been toiling in the open source vineyards, developing software that’s helping nonprofits succeed, check out the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) Tags: Data opensource CRM Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech integration. There are also some other features, like grants management and case management that are more nascent, but promising for the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference! It takes more, because you own your own system. at 10:00 am Free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

and a lot of different ways to track what your donors and constituents did, both online and off, and have those show up in really interesting ways. Organizations can get this package in three different ways: On premises - installed inside the firewall, hosted, or SaaS. More on those later.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Socialbrite’s lead developer, Esteban Panzeri, just finished work on a Creative Commons plug-in that lets bloggers assign different licenses to different blog posts, which he is releasing to the WordPress community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. More orgs will hire CTOs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Long-time Mozilla community Ken Saunders reached out to Tutors for All and is volunteering to redesign their website , while Yale’s Free Culture Club is hosting an educational event on Free and Open Source Software. Get on out there and make a difference! Tags: mozilla mozservice09 NPTech volunteer.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive.

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