Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. NTEN Tech Handbook.

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JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine.

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JUNE 29, 2009

The strategists – located in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and London – are: Beth Kanter, a longtime trainer and advisor to the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and other organizations. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A panel of judges, selected by Social Actions will choose three winners from among the 20 finalists, to be announced at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference , April 28, 2009. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 20 finalists will be chosen. How To Participate. Get your submissions in now!

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { But I guess they won’t, given their position.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

This is what we at NTEN call technology effectiveness: staff reporting they have both the tools and the skills to use the organizations technology systems to do their job and meet the mission. Organizations need to realize that treating technology as a peripheral expense actually limits mission delivery and effectiveness.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

" Care2 Impact Prize | NTEN – A group of inspiring, talented people! Any member of the NTEN community is welcome to vote, but only one vote per person, per IP address will be counted." Please help us select a winner for the Care2 Impact Prize! "We The deadline to vote is noon (Pacific Time) on Monday, April 2nd.

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MARCH 17, 2010

That's right: the registration fee is for a site license, so your entire staff can attend. The IFC Online is brought to you by the Resource Alliance (organizers of the International Fundraising Congress) webinar provider Forum for Fundraising, and NTEN, with underwriting from Blackbaud. in a Hurry .

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

It’s been nearly five years since the first release of Idealware’s Consumers Guide to Donor Management Systems report, and two years since Idealware and NTEN last partnered to update the report. For our 2013 update, we fully revamped the Consumers Guide to provide an up-to-date picture of the donor management landscape today.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Next Tuesday, I'll be presenting in an NTEN webinar, The Future of the Map. The cost is $35 for NTEN members and $70 for non-members. Read the description on the NTEN website and sign up! Photo: Bruno Girin , CC license. The webinar is based on a session I hosted this year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. and licensing models. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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JUNE 28, 2012

Fortunately, the NTEN community is making it easy this year. Speaking of resources, Microsoft recently offered the licensing to their Local Impact Map , free of cost, to nonprofits. Submit your ideas for the opportunity to win a $2500 grant and a free NTEN Membership.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. Tags: Community CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN. They also used wufoo.com , which helps create online forms, process applications for programs, manage magazine applications, subscriptions and more. . We remain inspired by them.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Leverage the SMALL ORG ADVANTAGE by looking for donated or discounted licenses. Special thanks to Holly Ross at NTEN and John Merritt at the YMCA of San Diego County for adding their insight to this article. Don’t accept the base price of software. Negotiate for a better or free rate. Work intentionally, with velocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Anyway, here's the flickr set. He said that it should be built into the interface.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Be sure you know all of the costs: Licensing. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership NPTech NTEN. My advice to any organization faced with making this decision: Take the time to answer the questions above. Get multiple opinions. Get estimates from reliable technology support providers for implementation services.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” Now it’s your turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

So that leads me to the NTEN's Be The Media Project ( name to change soon ) and Module 1 that we're building together and talking about this week. It's a stellar example of good visual presentation and use of creative commons licensing. Leave a comment or drop your feedback on the NTEN wiki here. you would get similar images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5 During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed the screencast, sponsored by NTEN , on Google Analytics! For all my blog readers and participants on the NTEN Nonprofit Webmasters Affinity group who left comments, made suggestions, pointed me to resources, and shared screen captures of their stats. High bandwidth version available here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

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. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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APRIL 17, 2007

Michelle Murrain has set up a new NTEN Affinity Group called Open Content Business Models. that is freely available, and released under a Creative Commons (or similar) license. The description: There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology community about open content. Please join, and enter into the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

I want to thank all the UK folks who sent us examples, pointers, left comments, and also a few US colleagues for walking the open source thinking walk with us - Holly Ross at NTEN and Katya Andresen at NetworkforGood who shared their powerpoints on these topics. You can leave a comment or post a comment in the space in the discussion area.

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MAY 1, 2007

Unfortunately, Katrin neglected to mention DoGooderTV, but we know that next time she will give DoGooderTV, which hosted the NTEN – See3 Nonprofit Video Contest , a big plug. It’s a big topic, but notice how much time she spent on web video! You can watch the video here.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Plug in the direct costs of both the old and new system, including hosting, licensing, support, and processing fees. Just like costs, there are both direct and indirect savings, so let’s cover them both. The difference between the new and old system will give you the direct savings. Measuring Social Impact on Technology Investments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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