Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

These insights were gleaned from over 3,500 respondents to a survey sent out by Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge. Open Source Software Takes Over #1 Spot for House Social Networks. I’m sure you’ll find all twelve insights interesting on some level. Two particular insights seem to be making the rounds initially.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias? Series A deck Image Credits: Fibery (opens in a new window) Based in Cyprus, workflow and knowledge management platform Fibery raised a $5.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

DeepSeek is open source, and other companies can host it. To start, just open the Deepseek-R1 page on Nvidias developer website . Ask something complex, something that requires knowledge and creativity. The answers frequently demonstrate impressive amounts of knowledge, logic, andseeminglycreativity.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I have no inside knowledge about what the merged company will look like. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

That support includes the sharing of best practices in accessible book production, model agreements for readers with disabilities, and open source access technology for reading the books. Together, we can provide equal access to humankind’s knowledge.

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TechRepublic

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This secure storage platform uses open source code, zero-knowledge file systems, and end-to-end encryption to keep your online data truly private.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. Their mission is to link the world’s knowledge in the same way that all of the world’s web pages have been linked to one another.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. To develop AI agents, enterprises need to address critical concerns like trust, safety, security and compliance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

QuestDB , makers of the speedy open source time series database, announced a $12 million Series A today from 468 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures and a list of industry angels, including Alexis Ohanian. Hourcard believes that as an open source and fully remote company, it should help to build a more diverse workforce.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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Engadget

MARCH 7, 2025

1Password remains our top pick for the best password manager, thanks to its zero-knowledge policy, numerous security features and general ease of use, but there are other top password managers out there to consider as well. Table of contents Best password managers for 2025 Are password managers safe? How do password managers work?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

Some CMS systems have friendlier drag and drop authoring systems, while others require a bit or a lot of knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets). We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack?

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

Some CMS systems have friendlier drag and drop authoring systems, while others require a bit or a lot of knowledge of CSS (cascading style sheets). We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Does your IT department require a specific tech stack?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems. Develop a Working Knowledge of OSS. Easier to customize and control (requires coding knowledge, of course). Stay tuned!

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On its website, the Wikimedia Foundation describes Wikipedia in bold terms and five languages as “the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.” A 2018–2019 Annual Plan provides a rough sketch of the last two years and “the movement with a direction” that the foundation planned to go in.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

We are more than seven years into the notion of modern containerization, and it still requires a complex set of tools and a high level of knowledge on how containers work. The DockerSlim open source project developed several years ago from a desire to remove some of that complexity for developers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. They are constantly investing in themselves, their knowledge and their skills. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects. Lorna Mitchell.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs , which builds open source developer tooling for Kubernetes. Developers who are new to Kubernetes — and most are — face a large knowledge gap when they look to sustain and optimize Kubernetes clusters. Virtual clusters are a great way to reduce costs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. While respecting individual privacy and our other values, we foster a collaborative work environment through open communication. We rely on open source tools for information exchange and development tools, as appropriate.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

For us, this means using best of breed cloud hosted services like Adobe Connect and Kaltura , taking advantage of the best open source applications that run the Internet like Apache and MongoDB , and building our own proprietary cloud-hosted tools when appropriate on great platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Gyrus

JANUARY 9, 2025

GyrusAim LMS offers a predictable cost structure, minimizing hidden expenses often associated with open-source platforms like Moodle. While open-source solutions like Moodle are popular in academic settings, they fail to address the complexities of military training. Why GyrusAim LMS Is the Right Choice 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. I’d like to do more of all of it. OK, enough of that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Against this backdrop, Deepset , the startup behind the open source NLP framework Haystack, today announced that it raised $14 million in a Series A investment led by GV with participation from Harpoon Ventures, System.One, Lunar Ventures, and Acequia Capital. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Developers relied — and many continue to do so — on open-source CLI tools such as curl and HTTPie. Postman declined to share its revenue but its new round was financed at over 100 multiples of that, according to an investor with knowledge of the matter. API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The idea here is to capture a lot of the informal knowledge around how to best debug a given service. ” New Relic has recently done a lot of work on open-sourcing various parts of its platform, including its agents, data exporters and some of its tooling. Pixie, too, will now open-source its core tools.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Google released BERT as open-source software , spawning a family of follow-ons and setting off a race to build ever larger, more powerful LLMs. Experts expect that a growing share of the models will be made open source on sites like Hugging Faces model hub. Foundation models keep getting larger and more complex, too.

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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2013

Agüera talks about the global mobile landscape with the knowledge, maturity and confidence of the best entrepreneurs in this space I’ve met. He truly believes in open source, and was a tad disillusioned in Google for its dealings with the broader Android community.

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