Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. or Why Not?

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Gigauri testified that Georgian citizens had been struggling against the anti-NGO laws influenced by Russia which “… amplify Russian anti-Western disinformation, cultivate social division and undermine partnership with the U.S. institutions to take the lead in promoting NGO freedoms within Georgia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

More recently, John has been involved with the “ Open Development Cambodia” an online hub compiling freely available data in a ‘one-stop shop’ to help consolidate access to up-to-date information about Cambodia, using an ‘open data’ approach. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

It works offline, according to the Plus Codes website , and the technology is open source under the Apache 2.0 Google and the Addressing the Unaddressed NGO have shown how Plus Codes were used to help give addresses to a community in Kolkata, India , back in 2018.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2006

What is the Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box? Open Publishing NGO-in-a-box : "he Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and distributing content.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The blog uses the open source WordPress software with a free WordPress template. And thanks to WordPress' open theming, we can change out the design at any time. And thanks to WordPress' open theming, we can change out the design at any time. Like the cobbler's chilldren however, we haven't had time to do it much.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Increasingly people there are demanding transparency and an open-source Internet as a necessary condition of democratic society in a deepening information age.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. Governments and adversarial groups with bigger budgets are often better armed, which might also account for the prevalence of open-source software for these groups, as it is thought of as being more secure in addition to cost-effective.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. I got to spend some time with incredible women who run technology related programs at Open Institute. They were: Hok Kakada who I interviewed for Global Voices two years ago!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

The idea is to bring together students, professional Bloggers, writers, NGO workers, media, and tech gurus from within and outside Cambodia to share and learn more from each other on about how the ICT (including Open Source Software and Web2.0 tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've identified key NGO partners that we believe would benefit from our technical assistance and are developing our plans and identifying support to continue our work on Darfur this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. One of the leader categories are NGOs. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects. NPTech Contests and Awards. Digital Leaders 100 Nominations. What the heck.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Oxford, United Kingdom: The Open Data Event. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, December 2, 2016. Sunday, December 4, 2016.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. And, if not, you can always sign up for the FlipVideo Spotlight Program camera giveaway.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Key CMS Trends in the Nonprofit and Government Space So, what are some of the key trends and shifts we’re seeing in the CMS market within the government and NGO space? Its open-source nature, robust security features, and flexibility make it an excellent choice for complex content governance needs.

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