Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 28, 2007

Bill Coleman and I will be speaking at Santa Clara University on Working to Change the World on May 24th, 2007. It should be fun: I really enjoy talking with Bill and this is a chance to talk about what we both think really matters! Here's the announcement from SCU. Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society Presents “WORKING TO CHANGE THE WORLD” A conversation with: Bill Coleman Founder, CEO and Chairman, Cassatt Corporation Jim Fruchterman President and CEO, Benet

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. I haven’t read that blog (yet) because I’m not a librarian, although, I’ve always thought what Deborah said on the ISF list : “I have long thought that nonprofit techies should make a point of learning from an

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

It was just last month that Andy Carvin asked " Can Twitter Save Lives ": Might text messaging groups serve any purpose in times of public emergencies? My gut tells me yes. Take this hypothetical situation. Well before any disaster, groups of first-responders would set up accounts on Twitter, then mark each other as friends. After that, they might remain dormant until a disaster happens, but then they'd fire up their mobile phones and start texting each other through Twitter's shortcod

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APRIL 17, 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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APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. But someone needs to raise the red flag before it takes an MA to work the register at the admissions desk. Summer's coming to D.C., and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 30, 2007

There's been some discussion on the boards recently about paradigms of non-profit management that gets phrased "Should a non-profit be run like a business?" It's a funny phrasing. There are well-run businesses and poorly run businesses. Honestly run businesses and criminally run businesses. I'm not sure what it means to be run like a business -- but it's clear that question is asking something about to what extent fiscal considerations should govern non-profit operations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future. Basically, he argues that in the era of Web 2.0, the only really compelling platform they have is Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

In Kevin's take on my session earlier this week, he suggests I develop a new seminar called "Tips for Dealing with Technology Meltdowns for Webinar or Conference Presenters." I'll start off with a few based on my reflections from this week's Webinar and some from the distant past : A sense of humor helps. Have a few jokes in your back pocket.

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APRIL 15, 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

APRIL 27, 2007

A member of the Guerilla Gardening "troops" let me know that they've declared May 1st to be International Sunflower Guerrilla Day. GuerillaGardening.org started out as a site where Richard Reynolds recorded his, "acts of illicit cultivation around London." Now it is an organizing space for people all over fighting the, "war against the neglect of public space.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 29, 2007

Stu Leigh of Real World Productions sent me a link the this video, in which Hakon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera Software, demonstrates the hardware for the new OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiaitve. It's pretty impressive. Opera , if you didn't know, is providing the web browser for the OLPC effort. It's hard not to be enthusiastic about the OLPC project , originally conceived by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2007

Most Successful Ever! I wasn't surprised to find out that this was the best attended Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance. So many people did a great job making this the event for social enterprisers in North America. I'm hoping we can expand our reach globally in future years! The Gathering is designed to help stave off the loneliness so many social entrepreneurs face.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. In one sense, I spoke too soon, although in another, I was right on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

hat tip to Stephen Downes. Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking : Twitter - A Beginner's Guide. Robin Good, Master New Media. Downes notes: Some online goodness from Robin Good that goes beyond merely describing how to use Twitter to describe how people are using Twitter. "Love it or hate it Twitter is a force to be reckoned with, and provides a great many pportunities beyond simply telling the world what you ate for breakfast.

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APRIL 14, 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

APRIL 24, 2007

Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade? Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. You can read a transcript of the podcast below.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. Based on market research in China, India and the Philippines, consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found that raising wireless penetration by 10 percentage points can lead to an increase in gross domestic product of about 0.5 percent, or around US

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

Late breaking news from the Gathering. Yours truly clearly ticked off our articulate and thought provoking keynote speaker, Carl Schramm, the head of the Kauffman Foundation. Carl's foundation is the foundation for entrepreneurship. Carl started off with a spirited advocacy for the power of entrepreneurship, touching on the vision of Ewing Kauffman, the founder of his foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal, Joomla and Plone! Oh my! April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I’ve had a fair bit of experience with Drupal – nosi.net is run on Drupal, and I’d done a Drupal install once, and helped with some

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Let's look at the shades of grade and the blurry lines between personal blogs and organizational blogs. There are "personal learning blogs." These are blogs written by an individual who works for a nonprofit, but the blog something that is not a formal part of the organization's communications strategy. The author's identity and workplace known.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 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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APRIL 20, 2007

Part of the Nonprofit Technology Conference I went to earlier this month was a video contest for videos that move people to create social change, and promote nonprofit work. The winner, "Stop the Clash of Civilizations" was created by Avaaz.org , and it is awesome. Gives me shivers each time I watch it. You can see it on Avaaz.og , NTEN , or on YouTube , where it is in 9 or 10 different languages.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 19, 2007

It's not really a new a idea - here's a Network World article from more than six years ago talking about the idea. But I think we are going to hear lot's more about it real soon now. This week, Adobe Labs released the first public version of its much-heralded Apollo development environment, a cross-platform tool to build internet applications that live on the desktop, with all the additional solidity and security that can provide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2007

Tony Deifell rocks! Our opening keynoter at the 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance was Tony Deifell, who has been working as the senior strategy person at Kaboom!, the rapidly expanding social enterprise that builds playgrounds for kids. Tony has just published a new book entitled Seeing Beyond Sight, photographs by blind teenagers. As someone who has been working in the blindness world for a long time (18 years!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Although women were only 25% of the Penguin Day attendees, that’s actually pretty darned good for open source relate

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Young Einstein. I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. (The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. I'm phobic of anything that might remotely appear to involve math or that makes me feel stupid.

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APRIL 12, 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

APRIL 19, 2007

These days, yoga is about more than getting in shape, or getting in touch with yourself. It's about getting the world in shape too. In San Francisco, Yoga Sangha is hosting a "Spiritual Activation Series" with lecture, yoga and meditation. Speakers include Julia Butterfly Hill of Circle of Life , John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America , and Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

The discussion of Open Content I joined last week has continued. In an articulate polemic Laura Quinn of Idealware lambastes what she calls the "tooth-fairy" idealism those who maintain that all content in the non-profit sector ought to be free. I think we as a community also need to consider possible negative impacts of advocating that all content ought to be open.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2007

The Board Meeting The board meeting went well. I met Kris Prendergast, the new CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, as well as new board members for the first time. I'm looking forward to my last year (out of 8!) on the board, feeling that we're going in good directions. I think Kris comes with the knowledge and the ambition to grow this movement.

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