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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money.

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Vote for these SXSW Nonprofit Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” If you are proposing a panel, leave a comment. ” The thesis: For nonprofit organizations there are two key processes that lead to social change: To become networked, and to use measurement.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. It doesn’t do more than that.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 !

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. What Happened on Give Local America Day? What do you think? What Happened on Give Local America Day? … Read More

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Joe Solomon, Guest Post: What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. The framework is super flexible - as just about any kind of action can be proposed and organized. DonorsChoose.org - "EduDrinks"? Then check out.

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