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technola
Legal Aid/Legal Services technology blog
nptech  blog  legalaid  legalservices  lstech 
march 2008 by sstrudeau
MediaShift Idea Lab . Free and Open Source Games | PBS
"In the networked world we live in, proprietary tools and infrastructure are dangerous because their use depends on the continued benevolence (or appeasement) of their proprietor, who can decide to disable (or just fail to update) their tools at any time,
floss  opensource  quote  comment  argument  requirement  nptech  npo  nonprofit  grant  funding  software  development 
november 2007 by sstrudeau
Don’t hire an Internet person at ZackExley.com
"I know people who are the future of the progressive movement. Most of them have “Internet” stuck on them. But they are not Internet strategists, they are strategists. They are not Internet communicators, they are communicators. They are not Internet
organizing  internet  nptech  technology  strategy  organization 
june 2007 by sstrudeau
501cSUCK
Chicago nptechies calling out the shady and mediocre non profits of the world
nptech  blog  nonprofit  technology  501c3  criticism  critique  chicago 
february 2007 by sstrudeau
OpenAcademic :: bringing education to all
Elgg + Moodle + Drupal + MediaWiki integration project for academia... interesting!
elgg  moodle  drupal  mediawiki  nptech  opensource  adacdemic  education  software  web  wiki  cms  platform 
july 2006 by sstrudeau
DefectiveByDesign.org
Organizing direct action to oppose DRM pushed by Big Media
drm  ip  activism  media  technology  nptech 
may 2006 by sstrudeau
EchoDitto - Enonprofit benchmark studies
Good stuff here. My favorite stat: "Online activists outnumber online donors: An average of 47% of all email subscribers took at least one online action, while only 6% made a donation."
email  advocacy  nptech  nonprofit  stats  statistics  benchmarks  fundraising 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Metavid
This project records the house & senate cable broadcasts, OCR's the closed-captioning text and encodes it with open codecs into a standard format for reuse. This is basically a souped up version of what I envisioned for Ann Arbor local politics meetings
video  politics  technology  nptech  congress  senate  cspan  media 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices: Politics & Email
Good tips for how and how not to use an email marketing for pols. No comment on how well NY democratic senators do...
email  politics  technology  nptech  marketing 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Donor Power Blog: Just don't call it blogging
Stop using the b word when trying to convince organizations "to blog" ... instead focus on the elements of a strategy that a blog
blogs  marketing  pitch  nptech 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Non-profit browser usage stats
Summary of statistics of browser usage reported by large web sites in the non-profit sector; in late 2005 firefox held about 10%, IE about 80%
pdf  report  statistics  web  nptech  nonprofit  browsers 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: Pine Tree, LegalMatch settle lawsuit
"The suit alleged that LegalMatch advertisements appeared when a user typed "Pine Tree Legal Assistance" into various Web search engines. Today's announcement said that LegalMatch is now working with the major search engines to exclude non-profits from it
lstech  legalservice  legalaid  legal  services  aid  nptech  domain  domainname  dispute  url 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
We, the clueless | NetSquared
"Don't jump on the cluetrain when it's goin' down the wrong track."
nptech  squidoo  socialsoftware  nonprofit 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
DriverPacks.net > Projects > DriverPacks > Intro
Project to collect all available Windows XP drivers for all hardware
windows  xp  drivers  hardware  nptech  resource 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
LXer: Why I Stopped Promoting Linux in Government
"I also think that anyone in America who believes our government cares about us lives in a dream world. I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or whatever. The people running for office are politicians. They don't listen and they don't
politics  technology  nptech  government  linux  floss  foss  opensource 
april 2006 by sstrudeau
Wired News: Net: a Political Free-for-All
"The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the internet."
politics  campaign  finance  campaignfinance  internet  blog  political  technology  nptech 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
North Carolina Obstructs DNA Testing for Condemned Man!
Blog advocating for the DNA testing of a man (Connor) on death row in NC, who may be exonerrated by the test
nptech  blog  advocacy  deathpenalty 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
Back To The Woom: NC opposes DNA testing for man scheduled to die May 12
"Conner's lawyers are trying to publicize this problem by starting a blog dedicated to getting a DNA test for their client. This may well be the first time post-conviction death penalty attorneys have used a blog to advocate for their clients."
nptech  blog  blogging  deathpenalty  advocacy 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
TechCrunch » Sky-Click: your web call-center with Skype
Sky-Click is a Skype-based product for call centers; worth exploring for hotlines?
lstech  callcenter  nptech  phone  voip 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
ScoutSeven Blog Land
"ScoutSeven is a project devoted to harnessing the convergence of online technology, grassroots organizing, organizational development and social justice values."
via:gregoryheller  shop  progressive  technology  nptech 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
Who Designed This Crap? The Case of the 11 Pound Pencil | MobilityGuru
Article about an unnamed social service agency's poor technology decisions
article  design  usability  via:nonecknoel  nptech 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
Successforce Blog: Download the Successforce Implementation Map
Designed for salesforce.com users, but looks potentially useful for anyone planning a CRM rollout.
nptech  crm  project  management  rollout  planning  toread  civicrm 
march 2006 by sstrudeau
Idealware: A Few Good Email Newsletter Tools
An overview of email newsletter/broadcast tools for organizations and lists of all sizes
email  newsletter  tools  list  overview  review  tips  advocacy  nptech 
february 2006 by sstrudeau
WineCamp - Kwiki
BarCamp w/ a focus on nonprofits happening at a vinyard in California some time this spring
barcamp  winecamp  nptech  nonprofit  conference 
january 2006 by sstrudeau
OCS Inventory NG
php/mysql PC inventory web app with Windows and Linux "agent" software to keep inventory up to date
windows  linux  inventory  agent  php  mysql  webapp  nptech 
january 2006 by sstrudeau
Google Pack
Google's bundle of handy freeware, with updater. I like the updater (no forgetting to update your apps) and the included apps are well selected (they should add 7zip and PDFWriter). I *do not* like, however, that they include Norton AV but only a 6 mont
software  free  nptech 
january 2006 by sstrudeau
How OC Customized Drupal | Organizers' Collaborative
Story of how the Organizers Collaborative customized Drupal to run their site.
drupal  toread  casestudy  nptech 
january 2006 by sstrudeau
FREE GEEK Chicago
Taking a cue from Free Geek Portland, some volunteer techies in Chicago have launched a "franchise" in the Windy City. One day, if I am less burdened by debt and burned out on the big city, I might move back to Michigan and help start something like this
nptech  ecology  computers  nonprofit  chicago  resource  free  technology  recycling 
december 2005 by sstrudeau
gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Top 5 reasons not to use Salesforce.com
5 Reasons not to use Salesforce.com for your non-profit CRM solution -- by a guy who's using Salesforce.com for a non-profit CRM solution
nptech  crm  nonprofit  salesforce 
december 2005 by sstrudeau
FLOSS Dgroups - FLOSSDgroups
FLOSS effort to create a Yahoo! Groups-like mailing list system based on Sympa & Drupal. Sympa's new SOAP api might make this even easier.
drupal  sympa  email  maillinglist  floss  nptech 
december 2005 by sstrudeau
Main Page - dot.organize
Project to figure out how to deliver CRM / database solution for organizers
via:gregoryheller  database  crm  nptech 
december 2005 by sstrudeau
Custard Melt
Custard is the platform to power Melt, a social software/attention software community to fight global climate change. Funded by Greenpeace, LGPL.
floss  nptech  socialsoftware  lgpl  greenpeace 
december 2005 by sstrudeau
CiviPhonebank - Distributed Phone Bank Management
project for building a CiviCRM-based phone bank management app; would be better with hooks to Asterisk and predictive dialing!
civicrm  phonebank  politics  tools  voip  asterisk  nptech 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
MapServer Foundation
AutoDesk released code for this open source GIS app for the web. Works with php, .net and other web tech for generating maps.
nptech  floss  web  php  gis  mapping 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
Offline NT pw & reg-editor, bootdisk
linux boot disk / boot CD image with software to reset local Windows NT/2000/XP passwords.
windows  tool  software  nptech  passwords  resetpassword 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
Group Server
Zope-based integrated email groups / forum / site
email  forum  maillinglist  zope  plone  python  floss  nptech 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
gokubi.com » Blog Archive » SugarCRM not as sweet as it looks
Summary: SugarCRM is crippleware (reporting isn't included in the open source version) and their open source license "sucks"
nptech  sugarcrm  crm  floss  crticism 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
Google Analytics
Google is now providing a free web stats/analytics tool (with or without AdSense). Nice, but Google is starting to make me nervous.
via:revgeorge  web  stats  analytics  nptech 
november 2005 by sstrudeau
Lasa knowledgebase
knowledge base of a UK based NTAP
ntap  nptech  knowledgebase  faq  resource  uk 
august 2005 by sstrudeau
LINC Project: Tech Tip: Accepting Donations Online
Great summary of four options for accepting donations on your organization's web site
via:amanda_bee  donations  fundraising  nptech 
august 2005 by sstrudeau
METRIX
contact management, scheduling and reporting for NPOs
access  free  database  nptech  npo  fcny 
june 2005 by sstrudeau
crosswise : welcome
calendering app that helps similarly minded groups from scheduling events against each other
nptech 
may 2005 by sstrudeau
PACE and E-Volve Release "Power to the Edges" | E-Volve Foundation
"Pushing Power to the Edges" provides an overview of the state of online democracy; what it is, where it is headed, and what it means for activists and those who support them.
nonprofit  npo  civicspace  nptech 
may 2005 by sstrudeau

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