Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. And I’ll be Google+ing (rather than Tweeting, which is mostly for my writing , or Facebooking, which is friends/family) interesting Tech and NPTech topics as they come along and are discussed. The home page.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My first-ever experience with Google Summer of Code has been with Benetech. Integrate Social Network sharing Social Networks have become one of the very popular trends in the modern society.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The open-source Starling Framework for Data Integrity was launched to protect the veracity of online content using blockchain technology, creating “birth certificates” for photos and videos and tracking any changes made to them. The app is available for download in the App Store and Google Play.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The o1 model rose quickly to the top of the rankings in common benchmark tests, and soon Google DeepMind , Anthropic , DeepSeek and others were training their models for real-time reasoning. Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management tool. While some solutions like Google Anthos and Red Hat OpenShift have come along, there was a lack of open source tooling until Upbound released Crossplane in May 2020. It’s not only catching on with users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. At the very least, your “Donate” button should be integrated into your website’s primary navigation or header so that it is prominently featured on every page of your website.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Google is phasing out its use of Material Design user interface components for its iOS apps in favor of leaning more on Apple’s own UIKit. The change was announced on Twitter by Jeff Verkoeyen, engineer lead for Google Design on Apple’s platforms. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Jeff Verkoeyen (@featherless) October 7, 2021.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Google XML Sitemaps – automatically generates a sitemap and lets Google know when your website pages and posts have been updated.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Google and Microsoft have worked together to improve the spellcheck experience in Chrome and Edge. The latest versions of Chrome and Edge are now powered by the built-in Windows Spellcheck feature rather than the previous Hunspell open source implementation. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Airbyte , the well-funded open source data integration startup, always made it easy for data teams to set up their ELT (extract, load and transform) pipelines, but until now, that meant self-hosting and managing the service, with all the complications that come with that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

StepZen , a new startup from the crew who gave you Apigee (which was sold to Google in 2016 for $625 million) had a different vision for their latest company. They are building a single API that pulls data from disparate sources to help developers deliver more complex customer experiences online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

You can also see what I’ve been reading by looking at my shared items on my google profile. Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Documentation | Mule ESB Community – an interesting and intriguing data integration tool built on the Java stack. Force.com for Google App Engine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. Basecamp’s Writeboards seem so much more like an add on than integrated. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. Basecamp’s Writeboards seem so much more like an add on than integrated. And it’s great that it’s free and open source. Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Posted by Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist, and Yossi Matias, VP Engineering and Research, Google Research (This is Part 8 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) We’ve seen this play out first hand.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

Posted by James Manyika, SVP Google Research and Technology & Society, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research Wednesday, May 10th was an exciting day for the Google Research community as we watched the results of months and years of our foundational and applied work get announced on the Google I/O stage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google Cloud today put a spotlight on its partner ecosystem. ” When the ISVs grow, Google Cloud grows, after all. .

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

a curated, Oracle-supported build of the open source Micronaut framework, which provides a full-stack JVM platform for developing modular microservices and serverless applications. Oracle has introduced Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1 was unveiled January 30. To read this article in full, please click here

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website. Categories of integration address “what” you might do to meet your goals, and how you would do it. Open source. Open Source – API. Create on-site engagement.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Google DeepMind put drug discovery ahead by years when it improved on its AlphaFold model, which now can model and predict the behaviors of proteins and other actors within the cell. offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. In October 2024 Blackbird.AI

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Trio is an integration of SugarCRM, Joomla, and a credit card payment system. This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and run applications. The company’s core product is open source and freely available for teams, something Brown said will always be true.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That’s one of the problems that five ex-Google employees are trying to solve. Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas and Kim Lewandowski founded Chainguard in October after working together on building open source tools at Google.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. This includes Google , Microsoft , SalesForce , Intel , IBM , and many other companies. Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Amplify, the Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC, LiveOak Venture Partners, Banana Capital, K5/JPMC and CISOs from Google and Square, among others, also participated in this round. I met with Aikas, who was part of the early Kubernetes team at Google and the tech lead for Knative Eventing , at the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon event in Spain last month.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The company’s solution combines open source with a SaaS offering. “So So we have two things that are open source: we have this engine, which is kind of like a Google search for code. And then we also have a vertically integrated SaaS solution that sits on top of that,” Evans explained.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2018, Google, Facebook / Meta, Microsoft, and Twitter teamed up to announce the Data Transfer Project , which worked on tools to help users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” Google says in its post that, on average, there are “8.2

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. In fact, they are the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The cool thing is that it integrates with GoogleCalendar. One note, though – the increasing number of new web applications that are interfacing with google, meaning that there are companies out there with my google password, is a bit troubling. I wish there was a way to avoid that, and still get the integration.

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