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2008 Tech Museum Awards Global Call for Nominations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the blurb from the nice people at the Tech Museum: Nomination Deadline: March 24, 2008 Nominations are being accepted for the 2008 Tech Museum Awards, an international Awards Program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.

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Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 - Part Two

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 was great for gaining a perspective on an island with a great deal of innovative social enterprise. Even though the legal regime is somewhat different, I found many parallels with social enterprisers here in the United States and around the world.

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5 Online Strategies to Encourage Recurring Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can encourage higher recurring giving amounts by establishing levels to the membership program with different perks to each level. Launched in 2008, MobileCause pioneered the use of text-to-donate in the nonprofit sector. 4) Segment Your Recurring Donors.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Oh what a difference a year or so makes. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. Songbird was a buggy mess just a year ago, but with the recent release of 1.0, it’s absolutely an application to get to know. It’s kinda cool.

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Cryptocurrency will be no different and those that realize it’s potential earliest will be those that benefit most. By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Let’s start with the basics.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

Upcoming speaking gigs I’ve done presentations on different tech topics at various meetings, Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Salesforce.com: Nice not to be part of the family Salesforcewatch.com talking about Marc Benioff’s (CEO of Salesforce.com) Day 2.