Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The design was to share this learning was amazing. Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. The internet is not new. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. The sharing and collaboration practices of the internet are extending to transportation (Uber), hotels (Airbnb), financing (Kickstarter, LendingClub), music services (Spotify) and even software development (Linux, Drupal).

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TechSpot

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the recently published State of Mozilla for 2023, the open-source foundation made some bold statements about its plans for the future. The organization aims to build a better internet "by the people, for the people," countering the overwhelming influence of Big Tech corporations with open data and AI services.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2025

The browser choice screens enforced by the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) are having a noticeable impact on Firefox's ability to compete in the internet browser sector. According to a recent Mozilla post, the new regulatory framework helped the open-source browser increase its daily active users in two of Europe's.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. That’s peculiar, because the duo honestly couldn’t be more different.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Preparing for and delivering a webinar isn't something most librarians spend their days doing, so we are especially grateful to our speakers for this gift of sharing what they've learned about open-source software over the last 10 years. You can join in by posting additional questions or your own answers or comments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. Additionally, major enhancements to its architecture simplify the secure backup, sharing, and distribution of information to trusted partners. You can read more about Martus 4.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

If you’re up for the challenge and want to change the world, or know someone who might fit the bill, please check out or share this job posting. Why You Do Want this Job: All the above. Thanks for helping us find the right person for this key role at Benetech: it will make a difference to the global cause of human rights!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

In that vein, knowing that you’ll actually be able to have strong internet when you’re booking is a useful feature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. You’ll see your panorama being built in realtime as every incoming frame is processed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Annie reports how internet use in most of Africa remains low despite the growing broadband internet coverage. Ax Sharma makes his TechCrunch debut as a contributor today, delving into how some open source projects effectively sabotage their own software, as a form of protest. Did it make an impact?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2008

Basically, it seems the motivation is that open systems allow them to upgrade their capabilities rapidly, and they need to be able to share data freely. The process of governments in Europe starting to shift to open source software, and software that used open standards, rapidly increased the use of FOSS in Europe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vizify scans your Twitter account to find your most retweeted tweets, most influencial and engagaged followers, and the most common words associated with your Twitter account and then packages the data into a Twitter video that you can share with staff and followers. VinePeek :: vinepeek.com. Vine :: vine.co. Viewbix :: viewbix.com.

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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. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. What do these tools allow you to do? 3 Takeo 04.28.09 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Nicknamed the “26 words that created the internet” by Jeff Kosseff, Section 230 established a liability shield for platforms that host third-party content. economy annually.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. Find me on Delicious for more!

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

I think that APIs are an expression of the best of what the internet is about. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. { But I have a first take. Or any other interesting combination of things.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Share on Twitter. Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). Log4J epitomizes the garbage-in, garbage-out problem of open source software: If you’re grabbing no-warranties code from the internet, there are going to be bugs, and some of these bugs will be exploitable.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? ASAY: Importantly, these savings apply to everyone, not merely open source companies/developers. Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Weve become accustomed to giving up bits of data for convenience, and have been forced into trusting our internet service providers because access has become so vital to everyday life. That means complex passwords, multi-factor authentication methods and locking down your data sharing preferences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening! Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok , a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. Ngrok was his solution. “Most organizations manage 200 to 1,000 apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I hope he shares it. open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. You can access Diigo through their website, via the Diigo toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer, via bookmarklet , or via the Diigo Chrome extension.

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