Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

As a shop that practices Agile development (we use an adaptation of scrum methodology that seems to work for a shop that does multiple projects with small teams,) finding a good tool that facilitates instead of hobbles Agile was critical for us. And it’s great that it’s free and open source.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). Can it be demoted now?

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2021

The organizations that will thrive in this new economy will facilitate collaboration, empower individuals and teams, and build impactful partnerships. Companies in similar fields want to collaborate on open data sets, such as enriched census data or machine learning (ML) training data sets. Scale to handle massive datasets .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Sessions I went to included: Open Source Ecosystems. What is Ethical Consulting (not so surprising, I facilitated that one.). Designers & Developers and Empowering Clients (combined session, I co-facilitated). I got to learn a ton, and contribute a bit. Customizing and Extending CiviCRM. Designing RESTful APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do? Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. I learned a lot. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. The problem I have is that they hid it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Social Actions is facilitating this challenge to encourage innovations for distributing opportunities to make a difference across the Internet and mobile devices. To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video.

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Report Nonprofit PDF Blackberry 114

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“I set out actually to go raise money to help facilitate Puppet doing inorganic acquisition on our own. The hope is that the company’s success with open source and commercial customers will continue under the Perforce umbrella, while being able to expand that base with some strategic acquisitions of its own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot. Be Helpful.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

APIs and the Art of the Possible (Panel) Panelists include Nick Marchese of Emma Willard School, Shandor Simon of Beaver Country Day School, and Stephen Boyle of Blackbaud The power of APIs lies in their ability to seamlessly connect disparate systems, unlock data silos, and facilitate the exchange of information in real-time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. In what ways have they not? is it a problem that can be solved in any other ways? Be Helpful.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

.” Other startups are also using MPC to enable distributed signing of crypto transactions, but Wang pointed to the fact that Safeheron is open-sourced, which gives its clients more transparency into its source codes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

million in grants to assist state governments in reducing barriers to employment with Code for America’s Clear My Record tool, which uses an open source algorithm to review records and produce clearance motions. That’s what we’re trying to facilitate here.” But there’s some reason for skepticism.

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Training Train Program Google 104

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand.

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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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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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Drupal Tips Nonprofit WordPress 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. He then pulled the data into an open source network analysis software called Gephi which produced a network map that he reviewed to help guide engagement and source discovery.

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Data science teams still lack the tools to create these holistic simulations and the interfaces that facilitate capturing human knowledge (which is needed to accurately describe most multi-faceted processes). Even with these advances, combining human knowledge with multiple machine learning models can still be a challenge.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Crowdbotics prices based on the number of features in the application irrespective of the number of users … [and] lets developers work directly in open source software development frameworks like React Native and Django, and also lets CIOs set and enforce their own standards for development and security — generating readable code.”

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." I was also wanted to interject crowd sourcing from the audience in the room or via the hashtag on the Twitter ( crowdx ) in real time. Crowdsourcing View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Being an open source and open data geek, the menu was accompanied with some open data about what was ordered most during the previous month! In 2007, Javier was kind enough to give me a tour of their office and introduce me to the awesome women on his staff working on Khmer localization of linux and gender blogging.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The open source dynamic runtime code analysis tool, which the startup claims is the first of its kind, was built on the simple idea that developers should be able to see the behavior of software as they write it so they can prevent problems when the software runs. The company’s secondary focus is sidewalk snow plowing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2010

Four activities will be presented over both days, and each activity will be facilitated by winners of the TechSoup Global NTC Networking Challenge. Tags: Digital Divide Open Source Services Software Using the Web and Internet. The Member Lounge is in the Redwood Room on the ground floor of the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Geopy Geopy is an open-source Python library that plays a crucial role in the geospatial landscape by converting human-readable addresses into precise geographic coordinates through address geocoding. [link] Other potential factors that might affect the accuracy of mapping include misspellings in addresses (eg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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