Longtime TechSoup friend Michelle Murrain often champions open-source solutions to nonprofit technology problems. Michelle says that she spends a lot of time listening to software vendors debunk the myth that open source software is free. Recently, she noticed that for all of the debunking going on, no one seems to be spreading the supposed myth. In Michelle's words:

If your organization is looking to join the blogosphere, there are a lot of things to consider — staff investment, leadership buy-in, one blog or multiple, return on investment, and a host of other issues. Once the decision has been made to get your organizational blog rolling (pun intended) the task falls to someone (probably you!) to choose the right tool. With that in mind, today we will compare two giants of the blogosphere: Movable Type and WordPress.

Know a nonprofit that has done an exceptional job of developing open source solutions for its constituents? Then be sure to nominate them for the 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC Awards)

Since its release in 2004, the open-source, Linux-based operating system Ubuntu has received a lot of positive feedback as a free alternative to Windows and Mac OS X, having garnered a reputation for being fast, stable, and well-supported by the Linux community. Yet while its developers reassure the public that Ubuntu is designed for end users, many still don’t know what it’s like in practice and are reluctant to try it.

A screenshot from an Ubuntu screencast.

There's been months of buzz about when Google would release the "Gphone", its answer to the iPhone. This week instaed of unveiling a new mobile phone, Google announced the Android platform and the creation of the Open Handset Alliance.

Learn how to select and implement open-source software with the Nonprofit Open-Source Initiative's newly released and updated open-source software guide for nonprofits.

Ars Technica, citing a survey performed by Rubicon Consulting, reports that although Web applications in the realm of email and games h

Find additional tools and tips for greening your nonprofit through TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative, where social benefit organizations can share and learn more about technology choices that can help to reduce our overall impact on the environment.

Billing itself as "a new global online community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation," Sun Microsystems launched a new site called OpenEco for businesses and organizations to calculate and figure out their carbon footprint and potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Maybe you've heard about Drupal, a free and open-source content management system. Drupal can be an advantegous platform in that it is highly scaleable, extendable, stable, and best of all, free. But maybe you didn't know that Drupal can also be used to create your own social media community.

Find additional tools and tips for greening your nonprofit through TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative, where social benefit organizations can share and learn more about technology choices that can help to reduce our overall impact on the environment.

A new company is touting itself as the "first environmentally responsible computer without the hassle and high price."