technola
march 2008 by sstrudeau
Legal Aid/Legal Services technology blog
nptech
blog
legalaid
legalservices
lstech
march 2008 by sstrudeau
MediaShift Idea Lab . Free and Open Source Games | PBS
november 2007 by sstrudeau
"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
june 2007 by sstrudeau
"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
DefectiveByDesign.org
may 2006 by sstrudeau
Organizing direct action to oppose DRM pushed by Big Media
drm
ip
activism
media
technology
nptech
may 2006 by sstrudeau
EchoDitto - Enonprofit benchmark studies
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
"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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
"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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
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
april 2006 by sstrudeau
"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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
"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!
march 2006 by sstrudeau
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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
"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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
"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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
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
march 2006 by sstrudeau
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
february 2006 by sstrudeau
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
january 2006 by sstrudeau
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
What Is Web 2.0 Anyway?
january 2006 by sstrudeau
Web 2.0 for nonprofits
nonprofit
nptech
web2.0
tig05
toread
TIGCon2005
january 2006 by sstrudeau
Google Pack
january 2006 by sstrudeau
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
january 2006 by sstrudeau
Story of how the Organizers Collaborative customized Drupal to run their site.
drupal
toread
casestudy
nptech
january 2006 by sstrudeau
FREE GEEK Chicago
december 2005 by sstrudeau
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
december 2005 by sstrudeau
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
december 2005 by sstrudeau
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
december 2005 by sstrudeau
Project to figure out how to deliver CRM / database solution for organizers
via:gregoryheller
database
crm
nptech
december 2005 by sstrudeau
Custard Melt
december 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
november 2005 by sstrudeau
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
august 2005 by sstrudeau
knowledge base of a UK based NTAP
ntap
nptech
knowledgebase
faq
resource
uk
august 2005 by sstrudeau
LINC Project: Tech Tip: Accepting Donations Online
august 2005 by sstrudeau
Great summary of four options for accepting donations on your organization's web site
via:amanda_bee
donations
fundraising
nptech
august 2005 by sstrudeau
crosswise : welcome
may 2005 by sstrudeau
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
may 2005 by sstrudeau
"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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