Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

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 August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The company’s solution combines open source with a SaaS offering. “So So we have two things that are open source: we have this engine, which is kind of like a Google search for code. The investors approached them, according to company CEO and founder Isaac Evans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The duo have built a distributed team of 10 across Asia and Eastern Europe as they gear up to expand beyond the product’s current source available (i.e. not-quite open source) incarnation and into a fully monetizable product. “Developers (currently) have to integrate several tools to achieve the same.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” ” Nonprofits should at the very least search their organization’s name and Twitter username to see what kind of response (if any) your nonprofit’s twittering is gaining on Twitter. Storify :: storify.com. Present.me :: Present.me.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How to understand the difference in engagement between paid search and other channels; for example, whether to prioritize clicks over impressions. How and when to focus on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) vs. Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Social ads, beyond just boosting posts, can be highly valuable to ensure greater reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

ll search my own blog to get that reference." I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not moment about something, I???ll ll blog it. t tell you how many times I???ve apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Instead of having to search for sparse sources of information, we’re now left with the opposite issue—sifting through ample resources to find the most trustworthy and impactful information. . To start your search, you need to understand the different options available to you. Journals and blogs. Public speaking. Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” If you search for it online (especially in Instagram and Pinterest) you might think it’s a tool for professional graphic designers – but it is not, and you don’t need to be a graphic professional to adopt it.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

Today we are excited to announce two important updates: 1) a new differentially-private algorithm for hierarchical graph clustering, which we’ll be presenting at ICML 2023 , and 2) the open-source release of the code of a scalable differentially-private k -means algorithm. Screenshot of the output of the tool.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Open Source – API. The site presents, one reason at a time, why one should give to the Red Cross. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. The reasons are sourced from blog, news, or case study posts from a network of American Red Cross sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

I stumbled upon this presentation from the recent WebVisions Conference. In the last five years we've witnessed Open Source ideas transform software and content, converting the meekest of us into public contributors. The presenters have a great blog too ! I really love the style and of course the content resonants.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

With the quick pace of announcements on stage, it can be difficult to convey the substantial effort and unique innovations that underlie the technologies we presented. I/O Flip presents custom card decks designed using DreamBooth. You can read more about this and other developments on our website.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s relatively bare bones at present — Habib says that more personalization options will arrive in January — but QuickVid can cobble together the components that make up a typical informational YouTube Short or TikTok video, including captions and even avatars. Moderation and spam.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This algorithm was also a key component of our work on efficiently scaling Transformer inference , which presents a wide variety of strategies that trade off between latency and hardware utilization, reaching state-of-the-art model FLOPs utilization (MFU) of 76% in throughput-optimized configurations. This effort, ?NAS compared to TPU v3.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hence, developing algorithms with improved efficiency, performance and speed remains a high priority as it empowers services ranging from Search and Ads to Maps and YouTube. On the optimization front, we open-sourced Vizier , our flagship blackbox optimization and hyperparameter tuning library at Google. closures, incidents).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 Online Presentations: This came via Britt Bravo - a link to a post from Mashable about "powerpont for the web." at the service of freedom of speech.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

DeepMind Claims Its AI Performs Better Than International Mathematical Olympiad Gold Medalists Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch “AlphaGeometry2 perhaps demonstrates that the two approachessymbol manipulation and neural networkscombined are a promising path forward in the search for generalizable AI.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The team was searching for ways to pack more knowledge into an LLM’s parameters and using a benchmark it developed to measure its progress. Finally, the LLM combines the retrieved words and its own response to the query into a final answer it presents to the user, potentially citing sources the embedding model found.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In search of an answer to these woes, Andy Pavlo co-founded OtterTune, a database optimization platform that today closed a $12 million series A led by Intel Capital and Race Capital with participation from Accel. It doesn’t matter whether you are building a trendy Web3 app or a more traditional brick-and-mortar online storefront.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. I prepared a handout summarizing these points for a presentation I did awhile back, but let's dive in to the details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. It's an open source free web meeting service.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The delivery giant also added some new shopping features, like search optimization. For decades, the firm has presented a flashy image to the world — a company well known for robotic highlight reels, from the snow-traversing Big Dog to parkour-performing Atlas. Aisha has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Google Calendar) and public data sources (e.g. web search engines and social media) to generate and process arbitrary things, like images and text, and then manipulate them in various ways. But Welsh argues that the Fixie platform offers far more customizability — and freedom — than OpenAI’s take, at least at present.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2022, we authored 2400 papers, many of which were presented at leading research conferences, such as NeurIPS , EMNLP , ECCV , Interspeech , ICML , CVPR , ICLR , and many others. Top Open-sourcing datasets and tools Engaging with the broader research community is a core part of our efforts to build a more collaborative ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's one of her training presentations. Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Agentic AI, small data, and the search for value in the age of the unstructured datastack. Search: tools that leverage a corpus of data to answer questions 3. So for now, it looks like its AI copilots and partially accurate search results for thewin. Thats because its much cheaper to run a small open sourcemodel.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Kalendar AI claims to have amassed a database of 340M+ “ideal customer profiles” upon which it unleashes its AI sales rep bots to send “personalized” pitches (including “interactive presentations that convert into one-click meetings”) to likely looking customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. But give it time. And, certainly, it's help me as a news feed to keep abreast of the flow.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library. To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software.

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Achieve

JANUARY 24, 2017

Their goal was to present a clean, easy-to-navigate website for their participants with a strong emphasis on creating a user-friendly registration process. Our team decided to leverage the extensibility and scalability of the Drupal open-source content management system to ensure the site could handle the sustained load of 24-hours of giving.

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