Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 11, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 18, 2008
Setting up as a nonprofit is not easy. Starting a for-profit in California took me one or two weeks, and I think it's still that fast. But, setting up a nonprofit and getting 501(c)(3) status can take a year or more and cost ten or twenty thousand dollars (unless you get pro bono legal help). Many folks doing starting up nonprofit work might be better off finding a fiscal sponsor.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 22, 2008
Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook. 90 minutes! Today I presented at Gnomedex 8.0. (My slides are here ). I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.
Steve Bridger
AUGUST 28, 2008
I was honoured to do some work with Amnesty UK last year. Hat tip to Marc van Gurp and his brilliant Osocio blog for pointing me to this tour de force.
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Forum One
AUGUST 29, 2008
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
AUGUST 26, 2008
I recently took on the role of chairing the Social Enterprise Alliance, the main grassroots group representing social enterprises in the U.S. and Canada. One of our new strategies to respond to the increasing demand for social enterprise knowledge is to encourage chapters to form. The initial chapters have just been starting this year. Our first chapter was in St.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 21, 2008
Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. She is an orphan who grew up in the same orphanage as my daughter. Without the Sharing Foundation's college education program, she would not be able to make a better life for herself.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 8, 2008
The Olympics open today in China to a multitude of emotions, including anger from Tibetan, Darfurian, and Burmese human rights activists about China's role in the conflicts in these countries. To protest China's financial support of the genocide in Darfur, actress Mia Farrow is hosting a daily webcast report from a Darfurian refugee camp during the first week of the Olympics (August 8-15).
Forum One
AUGUST 25, 2008
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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The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 12, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. I said: I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 23, 2008
I love my digital camera and taking lots of pictures. However, most times that means I'm not in the picture. Neil Soiffer of Design Sciences took this nice picture of me on the top of the mountain for the ICCHP conference's Mountain Attack on July 12th, 2008. Of course, I had forgotten to bring a jacket, so I used a handy conference umbrella during a brief rain on the mountain top.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 31, 2008
Photo by Corburn. Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. Home Depot already using the tag to update on stories in the Hurricane???s path. (hat tip Tom Watson ). As we wait for Gustav to hit, Tom Watson gives us reflection about social media and Katrina -- How will the use of social media and with Gustav may it different this time.
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Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 21, 2008
Lots of do-good bloggy "Days" coming up! Blog Day August 31st A day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers,"preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." For more info. go to www.blogday.org. OneWebDay September 22nd A day to celebrate what the Web means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.
Forum One
AUGUST 20, 2008
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.
Steve Bridger
AUGUST 17, 2008
I spent much of the last week in Cornwall with the family. We pitched up at the excellent Treen Farm Campsite , where I am indebted to Kevin for recommending I purchase some storm pegs! Busy working week ahead with two trips up to London, beginning tomorrow.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 26, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Hiatus August 26, 2008 As many of you know, I’m about to make a big move: to the left coast, to the big city of Oakland (or thereabouts). This is a good move for me, in many ways. In one particular way, I’m psyched to get to be in one of the hot spots of my field, and actually have a casual beverage with lots of colleagues I’ve gotten to know over
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 15, 2008
Bookshare.org just hit a milestone by reaching 40,000 accessible books in our collection. This is always a cause for celebration by our team, recognizing the incredible amount of work involved in bringing each book to our Bookshare.org members by our volunteers and collection development staff. Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 18, 2008
Jocelyn Harmon started the Marketing for Nonprofits blog a year ago as a place to share her thoughts on nonprofits, social media, marketing, and training. 1. Tell me about you. I???m a reader, writer, thinker and storyteller. I???m rich with many, many blessings - an amazing new husband, a beautiful daughter, dear friends, work I love. Most days I???
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 1, 2008
I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a little burned out on do-goodness. August 19th is not only my 39th birthday, but also the 3rd birthday of when I started blogging about social change and nonprofit-y things, and I've hit a wall. All I want to do is read cookbooks, do yoga, and spend time with my husband. To celebrate my birthday, I was going to start the 29-Day Giving Challenge again, but it didn't feel right.
Forum One
AUGUST 18, 2008
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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Steve Bridger
AUGUST 4, 2008
Just returned from a weekend camping with some friends and their dog in North Devon. Wonderful site in Morthoe. Already looking forward to Cornwall next week. Not long for my wife to wait for her wrist-watch, which got left in a side pocket before we packed away our tent.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 14, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. identi.ca is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 4, 2008
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation just published a very nice article, Leveling the Field , about one of our key Bookshare.org supporters, Bernie Newcomb. Bernie was VP Engineering and co-founder at eTrade. Amazingly enough, eTrade started in the same building where Benetech is currently located (under its original name of Trade Plus). Bernie grew up as a visually impaired kid and Oregon and rejected the low expectations of the then-education institutions and went to college and on to becom
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 26, 2008
Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. He describes what hopes to do: I intend to examine the methodology of various politically and socially energized young people, contacted through various activist networks, and to
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Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 31, 2008
Today, August 31st, is Blog Day , a day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers, "preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." Some blogs that I read, and don't usually get to write about here, are food blogs, and photoblogs, which are often the same thing since food bloggers use lots of photos in their posts.
Forum One
AUGUST 5, 2008
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.
Steve Bridger
AUGUST 2, 2008
Three months ago today, Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma making more than one million people homeless and killing upwards of 125,000 people. Or had we forgotten that? Click here to view the embedded video.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 13, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail.
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