Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 25, 2005

Clara Miller, the head of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, always has terrific insights into sector, especially in the area of funding as one might expect. She just published an article, The Looking-Glass World of Nonprofit Money , which zeroes in on many of the problems of the sector. It's a great argument for social enterprise, because earned income can be used in the ways that for-profits would invest money for growth and infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

I'm going to blogher conference ! Got childcare lined up and found a cheap flight. I'm going! Now all I have to do is figure out how to make this image show up on of my side bars!

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MAY 29, 2005

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2005

Last month I was able to introduce Steve Case (of AOL fame) for his closing keynote at the 6th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance. His remarks just appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the title Purpose and Profit Go Together. It's very exciting to see the spread of interest in social enterprise and social entrepreneurship among the community of top tech entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 5, 2005

Yesterday I visited Betsy Bayha, a friend of mine who is a producer for Lucasfilm, working on documentaries. Skywalker Ranch is a very cool place! I was passed by four guys in Stormtrooper gear: the publicity machine is getting ready for the release of the new Star Wars movie later this month. The environment is designed to be conducive to the creative process: I was especially impressed by the library in the main house.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2005

I just had to post this email I received. A couple of the Benetech team members hold the patent on the talking GPS locator for the blind technology, and this user is using technology we helped create. Jim From: "Rich Irwin" To: "Gps-Talkusers" Hi All: Thought I would share a great GPS experience I had last week. I needed to take a 50 mile trip using several public transit systems to an area I had never been before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2005

Lisa Meyers Brown responded to my question to her about her observations of the state of blogging by nonprofits. I'll try to be focused here by simply saying that the nonprofit world is seemingly in a place of exploration, as are many for profits. We're not sure how to use blogs most effectively, the ROI, how to strategically integrate ourselves into the medium given the "rules" of blogging, and even more, how to genuinely integrate ourselves into the conversations about cancer that ar

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Probability - 7 Originally uploaded by Misterteacher. Some post-dinner random browsing and I found this wonderful example of teachers sharing their lesson plans via flickr. To see the full set: [link]. My questions: Is there a way for nptech folks to share their practice working with clients via flickr? Food for thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

textually.org: Mobile Active Convergence: Looking for a few Mobile Organizers via network-centricadvocacy. NGOs Green Media Toolshed and aspirationtech.org - who's motto is "better tools for a btter world" - are hosting the first-ever gathering of activists and organizers using cell phones and sms in their campaign, human rights, and political work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

Last week I posted about Dave Gilbert's experiment with podcasting "unnofficial audio guides" at Moma, a project called "Apologia: We love MoMA. Hackers hack a platform out of respect for it." This morning, Dave Gilbert emailed with a link to the NY Times article about his project. Way to go Dave! These audio guides were inspired by a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their vacations so others can enjoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

That was the name of the session for this Thursday's Bloggers Meeting at the Berkman Center. The moderator was Shimon Rura. The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

A couple things about this article " Cambodian ex-monarch joins blogger community " in the Taipei Times caught my attention. The King's Royal Blog (which is written in french, english, and Khmer) and ability to make the article into wikipedia links. Sorry for the crosspost with Cambodia4kids, but occassionally technology issues do crop up in Cambodia, despite the lack of electricity in someplaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Because it relates to blogging and because part of my extended family is from the Philippines (as well as Cambodia) here goes: By way of Global s Online , a Google Bombing campaign to change the online image of women from the Philippines and take back the keyboards flipina and Philippines. It got started by Milky Soft's post " Filipina and the Philippines " How to participate. 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

David Weinberger wrote posted this interesting twist about information overload : The power of tags shows that the way to manage information overload is more information. That's what the doomsayers of the 90's ??? Information Anxiety! Information Tidal Wave! ??? didn't foresee. So, guess he is saying more is less? There was an excellent point in one of the comments from Jon Husband: It's (the flow) not gonna stop, and the traditional ways information and knowledge have been classified, ordered,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

Last week I asked " Where is the nonprofit blogroll ?" and in the comments section, Marnie Web left a quick response pointing me to npoblogs.net and some history. Yesterday, I was delighted to see that Marnie Webb posted step-by-step instructions on how to add your nonprofit blog to npoblogs.net. (This was on my to-do list). It is being maintained by Ruby Sinreich ( be sure to read her blog entry about her presentation on community blogging).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I've been researching typing skills curriculum for young children for an after-school ctc. I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. "Pre-keyboarding" lessons will often use an alpha smarts, emphasize good posture, and is integrated with learning abcs or letter recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2005

By way of Greg Beuthin at ext.311 some interesting arts and technology links: Plone for Artists. TheatreWithoutBorders (CivicSpace). Looks like Arts Wire, the next generation! By the way, Arts Wire was the original artist online network. Launched in the early 1990s using a text-based conferencing system (think the Well for artists), it didn't quite make it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Tip of the hat to Michael Stein for pointing out this new white paper by Exponent Partners, Paul Hagen, called " Salesforce Nonprofit Opportunity." Normally, my eyes would have glazed over, but the recent thread, "What's in Your Tool Box?" has been inspiring one or two nonprofit technies to share their list of tools. All this was inspired by Michael Gilbert's article sharing his publishing tools and workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

Recently I came across a metaphorm for the blogosphere, Blog-poly : a game of monopoly. I started to wonder about what an appropriate metaphorm for the nonprofit sector of blogosphere might be. But, before I could even begin to play with that idea, I need to blog some examples of nonprofit blogging. While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

This graph comes from Intelliseek's blogpulse. It scans all the blog sites it is aware of and graphs the hits for a key word or phrase as a percent of all its blog posts. When I visited, it had discovered 11,254,702 blogs (hmm. a million more than Sifry's Alerts announced a few days ago. This graph answers the question: What is the percentage of total blog posts that mention the words "nonprofit organizations" and "blogs"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

If you're interested in nonprofits and blogging and podcasting , drop everything and go read Brian C. Russell's (AudioActivism) and Ruby Sinreich's (LotusMedia) presentation slides at the recent RPTnet conference. There is also an audio clip on the site of an interview done as a demo during the session. (I wish they had recorded and distributed the entire session. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

Via Plasticbag I found the link to " Blog-poly " which metaphorms the blogosphere into a monopoly board. This was created by a Norwegian who is a creative thinker and has a site called Little Oslo. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2005

I am killing two birds with one stone so to speak. This is a really cool " Sticker Map " of all those blog stickers that someone found. Sort like the vintage luggage tags. The above is one section and each sticker is linkable to the blog. I'm also fooling around with ECTO that Michael Gilbert mentioned in his article about weblog publishing workflow , although he uses a different tool called Marsedit. which is only available on MAC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. (Now I have found way too many.). Anyway, I noticed that Sonny had his "Read/Write" lists as RSS feeds going down the left side of his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

I sent the link to Art Mobs to one of the museum/tech lists I'm on because I wanted to see if there were other examples of blogging in a museum context. Julian from Pacific Asian Museum left a comment that pointed to a blog about Buddhist Art Happenings Around the World. (I got excited because I had been researching buddhism and art resources for Cambodia4kids and because the monk from the Wat in RI might do some culture classes for Harry and Sara and some other kids. ) Unfortunately, the blog p

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2005

From Sifry's Alerts , Technorati tracked its 10 Millionth Blog (a chinese glassblower). What I wonder, what percentage of the blogs are active? Anyway, he provides a list of influencers of the blogosphere. I would have never guessed when I started Technorati in November 2002. that by putting simple personal publishing tools in the hands of anyone who wanted one would have so many ripple effects around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

Jeffrey Zelman bemoans tag clouds ascent (or descent) into popular culture. I like how the jargon of the blogoshere is so poetic and filled with methaphoric language, but excuse me - what is a tag cloud? A tag cloud is a weighted diagram of words used for tags by a particular tagging community where the larger the font indicates more frequent or popular usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

An email from Jillaine Smith contained the following news: Many of you are aware that I spent the early. months of this year working on a report commissioned by an affinity group of. foundations (Philanthropists for Active Citizen Engagement - PACE) that. describes recent developments of online civic engagement and examines the. implications these efforts have on future citizen engagement campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

Marnie's post on npo blogs are dead, not thread that Ed Batista started the other day and Kurt's response to one of my posts, made me ask: Where is the NPO Blogroll? Is it at npoblogs? Is there a delicious tag npoblogroll? Is there a npoblogroll feed? What is the best way to discover more npoblogs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2005

If you haven't been following the blogs are dead thread, Sonny Cloward in Vermont offers a great summary of this debate about whether blogs are dead or not. He points to post from Seth Godin about the digital divide between blogging and those that don't. He adds his two cents. I'm not sure what will bridge this schism--which I believe to be one part generational and one part privilege--perhaps just time and some good ol' fashiong spin-doctoring.

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