Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In this way, the show mirrors the case study approach we use to train students at Harvard Business School. Eisenmann : The Lean Startup movement swept out of Silicon Valley starting in 2008 or so and has since been embraced by entrepreneurs around the world. On the supply side, we’ve learned a lot about working from home.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 I agree with her that open journals are the future. Open-access is right. know danah boyd.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The resolution opens with the observation that the deduction “is one of the oldest preferences in tax law.” I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. think tank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It’s that time of year when we are ready to open our hearts in gratitude and do good things for others. I’d like to highlight two wonderful campaigns that could be wonderful ways to show your gratitude. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. Happy Thanksgiving! How will do good for others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The buzz has been going full blast about Google's Open Social API, from TechCrunch to ZDNET. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Open standards help long term.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. The very openness and flexibility of purpose is exactly what's powering this type of engagement. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2010

DREAMActivist.org , for example, enables students using social technologies to share stories of undocumented young people who face possible deportation despite the fact that they've grown up in the United States. We're communicating more frequently and more openly with people with whom we may not yet have forged alliances in our own spheres.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Over the next six years additional 826 centers opened in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Michigan and Boston under the umbrella of 826 National. This week Eggers is one of three recipients of the 2008 TED Prize during the TED Conference in Monterey, CA. Many of these kids don’t speak English in the home.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. “I would open it and just get depressed and close it again. The three primary audiences (students, educators, and artists) are clearly laid out on the left navigation bar, and a fun color-coding system makes it easy to tell which section of the site you’re in.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. When we open that can of worms, we’ll know we’ve reached the trough of disillusionment. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and insights when I present the paper at the World Social Marketing Conference in Brighton, England this upcoming September 2008.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Zuiderzeemuseum is an open-air museum that focuses on a specific region in the north of the Netherlands. Which compartment would you open?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. What About You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. The museum presents changing temporary exhibitions, but the permament exhibition has remained the same since opening. The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Let me focus here on two of our Truths: Right Stuff Right and Open Over Proprietary. Valuing open over proprietary then means not only to make our financials available for anyone to peruse , but also to be transparent about our financial story and to help others interpret it correctly. students with print disabilities.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

To succeed, we need not be bigger, just smarter, more agile, more open and connected. The concepts of openness and connectedness that fuel the spread of social media helps us get back on track. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? It opens additional doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

Flaws in the Causes Application It’s ahead of its time Regardless of the fact that Facebook is now open to everyone, the majority of active users are still under the age of 24. While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. per user is eye opening.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

Flaws in the Causes Application It’s ahead of its time Regardless of the fact that Facebook is now open to everyone, the majority of active users are still under the age of 24. While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. per user is eye opening.

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