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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. The moderator was Stephan Sonnenberg , Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School.

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Susie's Blog -- A Nonprofit Techie Who Loves Chocolate and Open Source Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. It sounds like you're an "accidental techie" - in that you didn't get training to do tech stuff.

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Will this advertising platform alienate users?

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. In other news: Arif Mamdani is the new Executive Director of the Progressive Technology Project.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country. VotingRightsAct.us. Have you ever signed an online petition?

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Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System

Non Profit Quarterly

Anh Bui, former director of Benetech Labs, told NPQ that Benetech’s methodology is to “build and harness community. Roughly $9 million of Benetech’s $14 million budget comes from its Bookshare program. Could Benetech, in partnership with service nonprofits, pull its Service Net vision off? We don’t try to solve a single problem.