Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech online community Blogging Social networking membership database websites Membership management data backup open source software content Ning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. Be Helpful.

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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. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. But then I had to think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. How will these trends impact nptech?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Register today!

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

We're always looking to balance sessions across tracks, open source v. ROI of Social Networking. Women and Open Source and Identity. Tags: NPTech womenwhotech WWT IT Staff. As you know, we're just about done collecting your great session ideas for the 11NTC right now (deadline: August 27).

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Women and Open Source. Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Comp Tix : Use this link to get comp tix for the TeleSummit: [link]. Tools Galore in Online Communications. Transparency and Government 2.0. Video Activism.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr: kalabird) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . FourSquare and location-based social networks for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. nptech Mobile Technology tsmobiletechnology mobile apps' Wearables, Smartphones, and Tablets Galore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. " Web 2.0,

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Two tools include: Tags: Case Studies Conferences Online Advocacy Social Networking Technology Web 2.0 Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Lots of members, including Charles Lenchner and Laura Quinn , were talking about the recent Pew research report on the use of social network by US adults over at M+R 's Progressive Exchange online community. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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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. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Generation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. I can only guess what algorithmic censorship in social networks might be, but it's apparently coming our way this year.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. open source. Social networking. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. net2mashup. New releases. Non-profit Communications.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Hacker Helper nonprofit technology news NPTech news Technology for Good Report Nominet Trust 100' Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Only one team can prevail – who will it be? You be the judge, NTC!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Wednesday, June 7, 2017. How Do You Use It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

In the last few weeks of using Facebook, I’d already realized how it’s fitting into my workflow in ways that no other social networking site does. I’ve also noticed how most people in the nptech world who experiment with this stuff have moved over to Facebook. I haven’t tried a number of these apps yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends. Slides are available in the NpTech group in Slideshare. There's a good case study of LinkedIn.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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