Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

I bought my Kindle on the first day of availability, and received it the day before Thanksgiving (2007). It goes pretty fast on the New York Times, but I wonder about being on a plane wishing it had downloaded something already when the wireless needs to be off. It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The ugly truth is out, and it is being picked up by international media that can hardly be accused of cozying up to the guerrilla, such as the New York Times. It is they who do the actual killing of the "hired hands" and then dress them up and arm them as guerrilla members fallen in combat.

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MARCH 9, 2009

According to this AP article , and this New York Times article, Van Jones will be a green jobs adviser for the Obama administration. I had the opportunity to interview Van in the spring of 2007 as he was leaving the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which he co-founded, to start Green for All.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Here's what Stephanie Strom, New York Times reported: JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities. Any organization determined to be ineligible at any time will be disqualified.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, folks come to BoardAssist every day looking to make a difference in the nonprofit world. Is this contract too risky because of the timing of payment? Don’t be someone else’s bank – What is the timing between delivery of your services and payment for those services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. There's still time to catch this opening happening tommorrow, January 10th: European Young Professionals (EYP) To Launch 2007 London Chapter Simultaneously. Last month, I was hoping to catch Mia Farrow in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

You can play with calculator and then download a free white paper, Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us which was written in 2007. Is information overload costing your nonprofit precious staff time? What are your tips and solutions for managing information overload?

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JULY 11, 2008

Phil Borges, with foreword by Madeleine Albright, Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World [New York: Rizzoli, 2007], 13.) " These statistics come from The Girl Effect , a web site created by the Nike Foundation and NoVo Foundation to educate people about the positive impact educating and empowering girls can have on a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2007

round-the-clock updates , credited to BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL, New York Times article, April 30, 2007 What's your best phrase to describe twitter? nano-blogging , credited to Carol Stimmel. notification system , credited to Dave Winer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Today's New York Times article by Stephanie Strom describes some of the most recent online contests, including the Case Foundation ’s Giving Challenge, a contest conducted through Causes. on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Don’t know if they will do it in 2007. BlogYoNoMo (Blog Your Novel Month) Inspired by National Novel Writing Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. How much time are you wasting having to reboot and redo work because the computer crashed? Photo by Eurleif. I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information. More >> Year. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design.

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MARCH 25, 2009

Flipping through the Sunday New York Times earlier this month, I noticed a public service announcement (left) for the American Indian College Fund , with the slogan, "Think Indian: To think Indian is to save a plant that can save a people." According to the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Leverage existing Mobicom best practices on best times of day to send messages. Messages are sent to a random selection of mobile users within target site for each message, so no guarantee of reaching the same individuals time after time. Does not require much additional work for a campaign manager. What didn't work.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

While it is true that the younger generations tend to be early adopters of new technology, the internet has become a central part of communications and commerce for every demographic group. Best wishes… 13 Sep 2007 Daniel Hartman Great article. “Facebook with wrinkles&# they call it. I invite you to visit and help as well.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

I am very excited that David Pogue , my favorite New York Times technology columnist, is the keynote speaker. This is the conference were more than one thousand nonprofit professionals gather to share and learn about how technology can advance the mission of nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Facebook: 2007 "We own the social graph, you bring the objects." Will google set it free in 2007 ? And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

Walter Isaacson , former managing editor of Time and former CEO of CNN, assumes that the print edition a is dead but the institution need not perish with it. Even an old print junkie like me has quit subscribing to the New York Times , because if it doesn't see fit to charge for its content, I'd feel like a fool paying for it.

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JULY 31, 2007

Here is a little blurb about the Conference from their site: "Writing for Change 2007 is a conference for writers of nonfiction books who believe that it is time for their book to be published. The San Francisco Writers Conference believes that great nonfiction is Changing the World One Book at a Time.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Feed verfolgen.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Feed verfolgen.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Orangutan Outreach is a New York-based organization whose mission is to save critically endangered orangutans and protect their rainforest home. Founder Richard Zimmerman started Orangutan Outreach in 2007, and the organization grew quickly thanks to a close affiliation with the Animal Planet series Orangutan Island.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Mining is in the news a lot recently because of the terrible tragedy in Utah where six miners are presumed dead in a mine collapse and at least three more have been killed trying to rescue them. You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. Obvious isn’t it.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia. This was happening at the same time as a rising rate of junior high and high school dropouts. The country spans eight time zones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

percent from last year, according to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey." The Jackson Street Book blog recently reported that the New York Times and NPR have added BookSense.com as an online book purchasing option, in addition to Amazon.com. on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 Today is a gift.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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MAY 28, 2007

While it can work out that way, a successful contest requires some investment of both time and money. On the other hand, when the New York Times writes an article about you — albeit about the challenges you are having with your contest — is that considered a PR victory?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. Now she is the Producing Director of Women Center Stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I, And for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now. .

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AUGUST 9, 2007

I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. It's time to do a nonfiction conference about changing the world, one book at a time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I spend more and more of my time talking to leaders in the sector, helping advance the use of data for action and impact. I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. " She isn't an advocate of online social networking for all nonprofits all the time.

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