Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 31, 2006
I have been blogging for Social Edge this week, and have grouped together several of my blogs from there for the Beneblog! Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 26, 2006
That's a photo I snapped at Pike's Marketplace. Apparently, there was quite a ceremony around the daffodils that were brought into the market. I noticed them on the roof and in the stalls. Had to photograph them. Little did I know that this was simply some foreshadowing. Today, at my mother-in-law's memorial ceremony, a poem by Wordworth about a field of daffodils was read.
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Forum One
MARCH 30, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 27, 2006
Just got back from a weekend away celebrating my grandma's birthday. Doesn't she look great? I would tell you how old she is, but we're not allowed. I can tell you that her oldest daughter, my mom, is going to be 64 this year, so you can take it from there. How does my Gram stay looking so fabu? 1. Postive attitude! Nothing gets this lady down. 2. Help out/focus on other people.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
MARCH 24, 2006
Day two at the NTC. Got to meet a couple more of the bloggers I enjoy following: David Geilhufe of Social Source , and Sonny Cloward of Vermont NonProfit CommunIT, at a session on open communication technologies. Lynn Stott, who has the terrifying task of overseeing the redesign of Techsoup's website, also facilitated. It was a great opportunity to listen in as NPOs discussed their experience introducing blogs, forums, or other avenues of community input on their sites.
AFP Blog
MARCH 14, 2006
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 24, 2006
Here's a post from Nancy with some notes from the NTC Blogging panel that I had to miss due to a death in the family. I heard it went well. It shows that good solid pre-planning is always a good idea. I'm taking a break from the intense grief that is washing over us. I am thinking about the value of pre-planning for events, particularly the final event.
Forum One
MARCH 30, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 22, 2006
As I was getting ready for this blogging panel I'm going to be on tomorrow, I started to think about the different ways that nonprofits can use blogs. Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1. To report back from an event or conference Example: Patricia Jones, manager of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's Environmental Justice Program, is blogging from the Fourth World Water Forum on the UUSC blog, Hotwire 2.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
MARCH 23, 2006
Taking a break from the NTC conference in Seattle, staring across the harbor from our 27th floor room in the Westin. the best thing so far has been meeting face to face people in the technology community I've known virtually for a good while. people like The West Coast Michael Stein , Deborah Finn , Beth Kanter , and Laura Quinn. And I got to have a good chat with Shaun Sullivan, the CTO of Blackbaud.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 27, 2006
Last week's CSUN conference was great. It's the biggest disability tech conference of the year in the U.S., and there was lots of exciting things happening. The biggest highlight was talking to Jim Barbour of Google. I've been working on Google's accessibility opportunities (and problems) for some time, and their CAPTCHA (the distorted letters you need to type in to get access) has been a huge problem for access for blind people.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 22, 2006
We have just announced the formal launch of our Newsline/Bookshare.org partnership with the National Federation of the Blind. We have 125 daily papers available for download on Bookshare.org, thanks to NFB's work on securing agreements with newspaper publishers. This means that people with disabilities can get the daily newspaper at the same time as everybody else, and in the form they prefer: Braille, large print or synthetic speech.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 14, 2006
I am so happy to report that we are receiving over $1.2 million in support from the Skoll Foundation. Jeff Skoll's foundation has been one of our significant supporters over the past few years, but this reflects a quadrupling of their annual general support levels for us, compared to the last two years. The Benetech team is very excited about what this means for us and the communities we serve.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 6, 2006
Wired News: Coders Bare Invasion Death Count We have gotten excellent press for our human rights program lately. The Wired News story did a great job of covering our work in East Timor/Timor Leste. And, our Martus human rights software was covered in a South African publication, with an article entitled: Free software working for human rights. That same article was picked up elsewhere in Africa, such as the Mail and Guardian Online.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 24, 2006
There has been an unexpected death in our family ( my mother-in-law) and I've had to leave the NTC early and won't be doing the nonprofit blogging panel. The show will go on with Nancy, Marshall, and John who will do a fantastic job. I'll be there in spirit. Check the panel blog for notes and resources.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 19, 2006
I read Lisa Canter's post about taking her young kids (Mimi and Lucy) to the SXSW Conference and smiled. And more recently, I received a childcare options survey from Blogher as part of the planning for this summer's conference. I'm about to leave for almost a week in Seattle at the NTC , the annual conference for nonprofit techies. It isn't just attending a conference, I also work there as well - coordinating the Day of Service.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 17, 2006
via ext337 I found a link to an interesting article entitled " An Adoption Strategy For Social Software." Nothing groundbreaking, but good advice based on change management literature related to introducing new technologies tools. While the technology tools may have changed over the past twenty yers, these points are applicable to introducing any technology within an organization or school.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2006
I got an email from Cesar Vargas who writes the NPO Blog. He was born in Lima, Peru and is studying for his masters in Information Systems in Hawaii at HPU. He is currently working on a paper about: "How do blogs benefit nonprofit organizations in U.S." As part of research for his degree, he is conducting a survey about the Benefits of Blogging in Nonprofit Organizations.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2006
Get together and talk NetSquared the night before NTC starts. Join others for talk of emerging technology and nonprofits, as well as the friendly rubbing of shoulders and great clams. Get more details from here.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2006
via an email from Diania Woolis The KPI blog will explore diverse facets of knowledge management practice, research, and theory -- from community of practice (COP) strategy, to emerging technologies, to conferences and events taking place around the world. We're excited to share what we're discovering about knowledge management for the nonprofit, public, and philanthropic sectors as we do our work -- and for you to post your critiques and ideas.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2006
"Blogs are not causing a revolution. Blog are just another Internet communication strategy and tool!" Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. We're going to run through the topic "Blogs: Myths or Facts?" and I need stimulating visuals to illustrate those points.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 9, 2006
This is the map from the UK Riders Frappr group. (I have no idea why the widget script didn't work, so took a screen capture and edited in Photoshop). Teresa Crawford mentioned that the eriders site would be migrating to frappr. (BTW, the eriders site has lots great content!
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2006
I'm so bummed out. I just got an email from Joel Remigio (in the middle above). This will be his first NTC Conference since 2002 that he can't attend! I had the pleasure of working with Joel (and Cheryl) on the Day of Service in Orlando. That's us at Disney World when we were awarded the Swimming Up Stream Award. Joel works for the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida & Volusia-Flagler County Coalition for the Homeless now.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2006
The AARP Blog is celebrating its first birthday! On another note, I just received my first invitation to join AARP in the snail mail today, although I don't yet qualify for membership. (But soon.) I must confess that I love the feature on the site that allows you to pump the point size. Although I have acquired many pairs of fashionable reading glasses, I misplace them or rather I forget where I left them.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2006
OneWorld U.S. h as a blog and it has a nonprofit nook. T he main purpose of the blog, according to the "about" page, is: The purpose of the OneWorld U.S. blog is to facilitate networking, collaboration & the sharing of information and ideas about global and local issues. It looks a blog community that is just getting started. There is an interesting article by Roshani Kothari on photo tips and tricks who is a wonderful photographer.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2006
The e-Nonprofit Benchmarks Study looks at the effectiveness of major American nonprofit organization using the Internet to raise money and influence public policy. It is described as "a tool that nonprofits can use to measure and compare their online performance to other organizations' online programs." Reviews by colleagues who have deeper expertise in this topic have blogged about this report and it has a made me curious.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2006
Joistke sends me really interesting links, like this one. Here's how it works: Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2006
Check this out. It's still in beta. It's called People To People Aid. The goal is: p2pAid.org is a website that aims to connect people in situations of extreme need, with people who can and wish to contribute to alleviate, even just once, human suffering.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2006
Mark D. Wagner writes the Educational Technology and Life Blog - his tagline "Context-embedded, Inquiry-driven, and Socially-negotiated Learning." Anyway, his blog was one of the first edtech blogs I started to follow and he emailed me recently to let me know he has a new domain and wordpress blog. So, I popped over to land on a post about burn out. and the lack of time.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2006
That could be the title of a thriller movie or mystery novel. Blame Paul Currion who blogs at humanitarian.info. He started the meme about asking for NGO related resources by pushing it out to Nancy White , Hell's Dire Agent , Jennine , Taran , and Declan. Nancy tagged Joitske , Brit , and me. Nancy choose resources more specific to those looking to use distributed group processes and technology in their work.
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