Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since most startups are not AI businesses, his post also evaluates “middle ground approaches” like prompt engineering, closed source approximation and building on top of open source solutions. seed deck Image Credits: Orange Charger (opens in a new window) EV charging company Orange raised a $2.5

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. If you’re not, Ignite is a style of presentation: Participants have five minutes to speak on a subject, accompanied by 20 slides. Slides are automatically advanced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. Moderate dips at 4 am and 4 pm.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

This is, for sure, one of the most robust open source CMS to CRM integrations out there, and one that seems to be getting pretty close to providing very powerful integration “out-of-the-box&# – instead of having to piece things together and do customized code, which is more common than not. 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

What happens when the most talented and innovative women in technology who work with non-profit organizations and political campaigns get together for the day to discuss the most relevant issues ranging from the Women in Open Source to Fighting Sexism in the Tech Sector? Register: Registration is not yet open.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. Image Credits: Aramyan (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This growth underscores the increasing significance of AI-driven services as Baidu strategically shifts toward an open-source model with its ERNIE large language model. Baidu has stated that DeepSeek’s success has inspired the open source move. 14, Baidu announced that the ERNIE 4.5 Just a day earlier, on Feb.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. Here are my slides from the presentation. Social Media in Disaster Response. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about opinionated AI and open source — as well as staff gift guides. I’ll spend more time thinking about AI in 2023, so if you have any basic reading materials, please slide into my DMs! Image Credits: Lensa AI on Instagram (opens in a new window). Gift guide corner.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. Schlemminger, a strategic marketing communications professional who integrates best practices in branding, PR and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Russell's (AudioActivism) and Ruby Sinreich's (LotusMedia) presentation slides at the recent RPTnet conference. The presentation is excellent -- I like how they defined blogs and gave many examples -- I just combed through the blog definition and selected a few below, but the presentation is well worth reading through the slides.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Looking back at our Series A investment memo for this disruptive open-source, NoSQL database startup, I was struck that we boldly predicted the company had the opportunity to disrupt a subsegment of the industry and successfully take a piece of a market that could grow as large as $8 billion in annual revenue in future years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

This is slide 31 of an interesting presentation about Web2.0 In the middle, the slides cover the tools. We need to avoid simplistic solutions to the complexities: Open Standards Fundamentalist: we just need XML. Open Source Fundamentalist: we just need Linux. Address inappropriate criticisms.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists learn about free and open source software that can support their work and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing, fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

The slides and notes with links to loads of resources and examples can be found here. We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO. The social media game can be found here. Feedback appreciated.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

There’s often one chart or slide that defines a pitch. Cut the noise (and the 30-slide deck) and focus on the one thing that matters most to your story. We know that most companies have already been using data to make decisions, so now they are going to be using open source models to help make faster and more efficient decisions.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

On the optimization front, we open-sourced Vizier , our flagship blackbox optimization and hyperparameter tuning library at Google. To this end, we open-sourced a primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) solution for LP called primal-dual linear programming (PDLP), a new first-order solver for large-scale LP problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

There’s an allegory here to the “wait, weed is legit” wave we saw a few years ago when firms started sliding it out of the “vice clause” column. More of the “centrist” crowd is beginning to field these companies in their portfolio. Silver tech – Life expectancy is on the rise and the U.S.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Open Source – API. 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. Authenticate. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community. Denver’s Georgina Douglas shares nonprofit website usability tips.

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The Verge

APRIL 25, 2022

There’s plenty of competition in the group chat space, but Twitter enters the fray with an advantage: communication happens on a sliding scale. Before Musk came into the picture, though, this sliding scale approach appeared to be roughly the road Twitter was headed down. Most messaging platforms excel at one, maybe two of those things.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

This family of models is being incorporated into multiple Google products, including: Image generation in Google Slides and Android’s Generative AI wallpaper are powered by our text-to-image generation features. You can read more about this and other developments on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Then I reviewed each slide deck and created a compilation (see above) and developed the final script.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. I see on the slides different services, is there one comprehensive program where we can manage everything? Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

Meanwhile, Slides offers templates for slideshows, and Forms is home to templates such as polls, pop quizzes and lists. WordPress.org offers free themes uploaded by the open-source community that you can use. All these free tools are available through Google Docs. WordPress Themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0. Meanwhile, Party4aPurpose launches the alpha version. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. There's no place like Web2.0, There's no place like Web2.0.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

There is one thing that binds the many products under the Automattic umbrella together: a bet on and belief in the open web and open-source software,” writes David Pierce. But the way Mullenweg sees it, open is still going to win. Still only two slides dedicated to podcasts?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! You can grab the slides and read her notes and commentary on her blog post. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

CCB, Inc Enter at booth 52 for a chance to win a Flip Slide HD video camera! Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends. Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more. Want to share it? Idealware Article, reports, oh my!

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site? Jonathan Coleman's slide show, You Can't Raise $$$ if People Can't Find You on SEO fundraisers. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. In the interests of relative brevity, I won’t go in the many free video editing tools available, but I do want to mention a hybrid that is easy to use and creates video slide shows.

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