Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2007

The big celebration was also in the Sheldonian: the 2007 Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. And it was exciting! Below, I have picked a few select photos: the rest are on my Flickr page. Salman Ahmed got the crowd pumping as before, and then we met our four rockstar presenters (well, at least one is literally a rock star, and the other three have a pretty good claim to the status): Jeff Skoll, Peter Gabriel, Sally Osberg and Muhammad Yunus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. My goal was to bring them to the Linux geek out at NTC , and have people play with Linux installs on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Leonard Gagnon's daughters knitting from John Collier, Jr. (used with permission). This photograph is part of The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could.

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MARCH 29, 2007

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.

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MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 24, 2007

What is the difference between CRM and Membership Management? Isn't the latter just CRM for a member-based organization? This is the kind of discussion you hear over Italian cold-cuts on a ciabatta at our office. The answer is: not really. Membership is where CRM meets Business Process Management. Typically we find that Membership is the part of our system that needs to be customized most intensively for an organization, to meet the complex business rules in place governing the membership plans.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. Her perspective is that the scarcity mentality of nonprofits (the idea that there is only one pie, and we only get our small slice) helps keep nonprofits from taking full advantage of social media (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

I am delighted that I have an article, An Introduction To Screencasting published over at Idealware. Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not blogging to this for self-promotion. I'm screaming it from the rooftops to thank Laura Quinn for her editorial insights and for publishing it! And you know what? She didn't pay me. And you know, I just made a (small) donation to Idealware to say thank you.

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 31, 2007

I did some research recently on how to use carbon offsets for my flight to the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington DC. I haven't taken a cross-country flight since the whole "carbon offset" thing started to gain momentum, so this was an opportunity to understand what it is all about. Ed Begley used TerraPass on Living with Ed (which I love), so I started there.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 19, 2007

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - has been a consulting hotspot for years. Everyone wants their website to come up near the top of the first page on major search engines. How is this magic done? A few years back, SEO professionals emphasized keywords. words hidden in the page that would match likely search terms. And knowing that engines like Google rank pages by "authority" -- by how many pages link to them - site owners were engaging in link exchanges and other less honest games to increase t

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 27, 2007

Just arrived in Oxford in time for the opening Monday night dinner of the Skoll Forum. The Skoll social entrepreneurs get a day together before the big opening on Tuesday afternoon. The location is Exeter College, whose dining hall was the prototype for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter film. It was a time to meet old friends and new social entrepreneurs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant March 19, 2007 Beth Kanter interviewed me for Blogher recently, and one of the questions included “… you work as an independent consultant …&# Well, those days are numbered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2007

Click to see larger photo in flickr with notes. For a client meeting, I needed to do a conference call with one person here in the US and another in Europe. Everytime I use skype conference calls, it is a pain - echoes, static, dropped lines, etc. We waste 10-15 minutes fumbling. My solution this morning - I called US person on my landline and used skype with my mic/speaker.

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 27, 2007

As part of CARE's campaign to empower women, photographer Phil Borges created a compelling collection of photographs and stories of women leaders who brought change to their communities in Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World. I was particularly moved by the story of Abay from Awash Fontale, Ethiopia who ended female circumcision in her village.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 18, 2007

This bite-sized movie by videoblogger Raymond Kristiansen doesn't answer any questions - but it does shine a bright light on a lot of the questions that come up in our work, discussing technology with non-profit organizations. Stylish and intense. Maybe I will have to start video-blogging. this stuff is really cool!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Content access on the internet is a constant area of fascination to me. Hadley School , the main distance education school for blind people in the U.S. turns out to have had a major program in China for almost 20 years, and they have come up with a cool way to use the net. Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

I'm pulling a few unrelated threads together here, mostly because it is one week before NTC and as my UK friends say, "I'm mental busy." First, and foremost, tommorrow is Stop Cyberbullying Day , an excellent idea that Andy Carvin suggested in light of the Kathy Sierra incident earlier this week. If you have not already checked out the ning site that Andy put together, it's here.

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 20, 2007

Last month I posted an e-interview with Caitlin Cohen, the US coordinator and co-founder of the Sigida Keneyali Project , a community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28,000 people. It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project. Caitlin is part of the International Youth In Volunteerism Summit , a conference for youth activism around the globe.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 17, 2007

Just came across this much more positive view of Twitter from Chris Brogan posted on LifeHack. It's worth reading, as he discusses five specific uses of Twitter. And Rafe Needleman has written a nice " Newbie's Guide to Twitter " to speed you evaluation of this latest craze.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2007

Two good articles recently covered the Guatemala secret police archive project that we are supporting. Guatemala struggles to find war crimes justice was in the San Francisco Chronicle, and captures the personal side of this work. Many people want to know what happened to those who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war. ITworld.com's Digging for the truth quotes Benetech's Tamy Guberek and notes that our Martus software is being used in the project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

via en email from Andy Carvin. I like this call to action! I just wanted to post a reminder that today is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and. we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. online harassment and what we can do to combat them. Hundreds of bloggers. have posted on the subject already, and I expect there will be many more over. the course of the day.

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 19, 2007

" Fortune magazine calls water the oil of the 21st century — 'the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations.'"-- Food & Water Watch The 1993 novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing , takes place in 2048 in a world where corporations control water, and Northern and Southern California are in a civil water war. Fiction could become reality unless we start making water access and water rights a top priority.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 16, 2007

Twitter is all the rage, it seems. This year-old site -- sort of a world-wide chat room -- seems to be really taking off. Social-media maven Ross Mayfield , in his Many-to-Many blog, shows a page-load chart of Twitter over the last year that demonstrates its recent near-exponential growth. What do you do on Twitter? Some people refer to it as MicroBlogging.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 4, 2007

Last week I attended a meeting of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID), which was subtitled "UN Meets Silicon Valley." The goal of the meeting was to talk about ways to advance crucial goals of the UN with help from the technology community, especially poverty reduction. The people in attendance were good, and I had many exciting conversations.

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