Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. Steve went to India for more tests. We go way back with her firm. Unfortunately, early last year, Steve got sick.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

While I appreciate that one can, theoretically (I have yet to test it) easily become a “partner&# with either company – but that doesn’t quite count as open. Open it up, let anyone bang on test data to try things out, and you never know what might happen. I could argue it either way. He’s right.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together. I also have been doing some interesting client projects. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc.

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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 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

With numerous speakers and a packed agenda, I had a chance to hear some of the projects that's happening in this space. One of these projects, Opinion Space , is being used by the Department of State to foster the exchange of ideas in an interactive manner.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. Matt Wilson, Mobile Commons. And in terms of the original intent of this program, we definitely failed! CONCLUSION.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

” An AAR is an assessment conducted after a project or activity that allows everyone the team to discover and learn what happened and why. The team looks at some questions: What was the goal of our project? What actually happened during implementation? Was it anticipated? What did we learn from the experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Why do obsess about projects that fail and not those that work? He suggests looking for the bright spots – the projects that work. Analyze the ingredients of success of projects that went smoothly. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. The project blew away our expectations. Experimonth started out as play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. You can only really do this with a technically comfortable crowd, and the folks at the Public Conversations Project and TechFoundation hosted event fit the bill.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Why do obsess about projects that fail and not those that work? He suggests looking for the bright spots – the projects that work. Analyze the ingredients of success of projects that went smoothly. Also new this year is the online NTC. Make it easy to give.

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MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. Why do obsess about projects that fail and not those that work? He suggests looking for the bright spots - the projects that work. Analyze the ingredients of success of projects that went smoothly. Also new this year is the online NTC. Make it easy to give.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. What''s the biggest obstacle to more of these projects happening?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession. Congress and President Obama came together in a rare show of collaboration to pass the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and pump nearly $800 billion dollars into the economy to stimulate jobs and support numerous public works projects.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. What's the biggest obstacle to more of these projects happening?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

How did this project start? Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. And so, we started a major research project--the first one we've done that focuses on membership.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. Projects design participatory museum guestpost usercontent.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. The 2021 cohort of fellows will receive project support and living stipends ranging from $80,000 to $100,000 over a year to address economic equality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. 3 TJ Sondermann 11.06.08

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. charity:water continues to be an innovator in the area of online fundraising.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Always use multiple donation forms for targeting, testing, and expanding giving options. This also means there is the ability to do A/B testing, multivariate testing, and a variety of targeting options. Check out the “Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media” white paper to learn more. smaclaughlin Kenny.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

Most fraud starts with $1 gifts so that the criminals can test the numbers. There is some research on the subject, but it is always a good idea to test and optimize. The only best practice is to test. I recommend testing this before applying it across the board. Here are steps organizations can take: 1.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

In a nutshell, creating a social media strategy that can stand the test of time. Geoff’s new book is Welcome to the Fifth Estate: How to Create and Sustain a Winning Social Media Strategy. What is your new book all about? That moves from media theory all the way through to measurement and sustainability.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

The Bandwagon Effect In 2008, we launched a "single-sign on" method using Facebook Connect that allows our visitors to use their Facebook credentials to log in. Use A/B testing methods to test a single variant in your workflow. Test small, incremental changes instead of overhauling everything. Sometimes we've led trends.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

This one comes from Pat Flynn, who hosted a “Wheel of Fortune” -esque YouTube livestream, which he uses as a platform to help raise money for nonprofit COVID-19 relief projects. The project started in 2008, and they’ve raised over $50 million doing these types of things for sick and injured kids through online gaming fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

You can check any particular site with the Heartbleed test to see if they're vulnerable. This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. The Big UN Report on Climate Change.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2011

The first step is to evaluate the projected long-term value (i.e. If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be Additionally, the modeled test group demonstrated a 30 percent increase in net revenue over the control group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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