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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One question that will inevitably be asked: can free and open source software save organizations money? Open source software is both free as in “beer&# as well as free as in “kittens.&# There are no license fees, but it takes care and feeding. Confusing, huh? Where does the resounding yes come from?

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead.

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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Free as in “Free Kittens”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. But then, you own it – you can do much more. at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. Be Helpful.

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