Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Today nearly 75 million sites are constructed and managed on the WordPress platform—which first debuted in 2011—and there are some very good reasons why. While many CMSs come and go, for more than five years WordPress has shown itself to be a reliable—and therefore lasting—platform for web design. Staying Power.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools. Have an Android device?

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

While it does not yet amount to the bulk of fundraising for most nonprofits, online giving grew by 13 percent from 2010 to 2011. The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations. Look at Web Traffic. Start by scrutinizing your web traffic. Pay Attention to Referrals.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

" A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. HandUp is a social enterprise company that takes online donations via web or text for specific homeless people and delivers the help through partner organizations.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Responsive web design started its takeover of the Internet in 2011 and has since become a necessity. Are your images large enough? Click around on your site and evaluate the sizes of your images. If you want to get down to the pixels, your images should be at least 400 x 250px. Is your website responsive?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). The solution is mobile optimization or responsive web design. We Have a Solution. Make Updates a Breeze.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 10, 2015

You mean my website needs to be able to talk to web visitors all by itself? A responsive website is one that, depending on the type of device a web visitor is accessing your site from, whether that be a smart phone, tablet, or laptop / desktop computer, the website functions and displays correctly. Responsive?! Not exactly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers. 4: Media Measurement Requires Quantity and Quality : This principle is about measuring both quantative and qualitative information.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

One of the app’s best features, Project FishMap, which allows users to find nearby restaurants and businesses serving sustainable seafood and contribute new establishments to a growing database, was added in an early 2011 update. ” button to enable an image overlay that puts the historical image over the phone's camera view.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. This is a good argument for minimalistic header images in email. As you know, more and more desktop and webmail email clients default to hiding images from readers. In mobile, images are vigorously suppressed. It stands to continue rising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Google dominates search on the desktop Web and now they are pioneering search on the mobile Web (see also m.google.com ).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Erinn joined the GuideStar team when Philanthropedia was acquired in 2011. With over 15 years study in the practice of digital wizardry, Mikey has worked as a web designer, radio journalist, and travel writer, before finally finding his spiritual home in the moving image. Vanessa Chase.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. Image 1: Microsoft. Image 2: Cancer Research UK. Safer Internet Day.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. Each team member places relevant elder justice and elder abuse articles and online mentions from the web into NYCEAC’s private Delicious bookmarks.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks 2011 , is in stock at TechSoup. Available in one- and three-user versions for Windows, QuickBooks 2011 Premier assists in paying bills and tracking expenses. And, each individual entry can hold up to 2GB of text, documents, images, and video.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Perhaps the most famous of these was the outage of the Sony PlayStation Network that took down their cloud based service for nearly a month in the spring of 2011 and affected Sony's 70 million users. In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. One of those is a mobile-web app called Forage City , which helps community members share surplus food with one another. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). Read about our first hackathon and stay in the loop about future events.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Federal Communications Commission in 2011 and is now its own nonprofit organization. Image: Connect2Compete. Digital Divide Using the Web and Internet libraries nonprofits broadband digital inclusion BTOP' It was launched by the U.S. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. People use the lab for web browsing, job hunting, printing, scanning, looking at videos on YouTube, and playing games. " Image: Photo by Reliatech. The server has four GForce 7600 video cards installed; each card runs two monitors. Eight keyboards. Eight mice. Open Office.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

QR codes, short for “Quick Response” codes, are similar to barcodes, but with more web savvy pizzazz. When scanned using an app for your smartphone, they automatically take you to a website, image hosted on the web, calendar invite, series of text, or other types of content. Just saying…

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Images: Courtesy of Roger Smith and /tiian via Creative Commons on Flickr. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Aliza Sherman is a veteran Web entrepreneur, author and commentator on digital, social and mobile. Her latest book is The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing (Penguin, 2011) Her next book is Mom, Incorporated.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. For instance branding elements can be a statement of your nonprofit, a compelling visual image to be remembered by.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. It’s ironic how Web design has come full circle. You can add some color to your mobile website through navigation bars and images.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In a time when photographs circulate around the globe at an unprecedented scale and speed, and revolutions are propelled by viral images, it has become more important than ever for mission-driven organizations to create impactful visual media that can drive action and fuel awareness. Photo by Alex Masi on behalf of The Bhopal Medical Appeal.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The World Wide Web Turns 25. We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. Image one: courtesy of Wello.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2014

The famous Boston Globe website launched in September of 2011 as one of the first fully responsive sites and now it almost seems there’s a mandate to go responsive. You don’t necessarily need to switch out the messaging or call-to-action but I still like to see a fresh image upon repeat visits. The Donate widget.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Each year, new words and expressions become bona fide entries into the worlds top English dictionaries. Then, use the web and social networking for research. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

System Recovery Small Business Server Edition 2011 (Admin Fee: $58) This backup and recovery solution uses disk imaging (basically taking snapshots of your systems) to protect your Microsoft Small Business Server. This suite also includes Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Mail Security, and Symantec System Recovery.

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