Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 29, 2005

Interesting conversation starting (I think) on Social Edge - Investors and Entrepreneurs Discuss Breakthroughs in Social Capital. This is a constant topic among social entrepreneurs. I'll quote my first post: The mismatch I think Roger did a good job of tackling these issues. From my standpoint, the real one is the issue of sacrificing return. The people who are promoting social investment successfully have to promise returns to their investors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2005

Via the Berkman Center. This September, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society will launch H2O Playlists -- a new tool for finding academic content. through people you trust. H2O Playlists are a series of recommended books, articles, media, or blogs that collectively inform users on a subject, lecture, course, or current event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2005

Last night I attended the premiere of The New Heroes, a PBS show on social entrepreneurs that airs in one week. The event was hosted in San Jose by the Community Foundation Silicon Valley. Robert Redford, the host of the show, was there. He really gets social entrepreneurship, which is no surprise considering he founded Sundance. Jeff Skoll also spoke: the Skoll Foundation is the major backer of the New Heroes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2005

The 2005 Winners of Stanford's Social E-Challenge competition were just posted. I enjoyed being a judge for the finals, and was impressed by the quality of the ventures that made it to the finals. This quality is indicative of both the interest and sophistication of students in social entrepreneurship. It provides real hope about the future of our society, if our best and brightest put this kind of value in meeting the larger needs of humanity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 2, 2005

I had lunch yesterday with Mitchell Baker , head of the Mozilla Foundation , the creators of the Firefox browser. We had a wide ranging conversation about the challenges of how to run nonprofit social enterprises, especially technology enterprises. I think that Firefox is a great example of responding to market failure. In this case, it was Microsoft's dominance with Internet Explorer that removed competition and innovation in the browser space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2005

Michael Stein has written a piece entitled " Surfing the Knowledge Stream of Best Practices in Nonprofit Internet Use " In the article he shares the specific resources he reads every day. He includes blogs, along with email discussion forums and e-newsletters as three pillars of online knowledge. I wish he had made his bloglines account public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Photos of the slides. I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. This most inspiring case study on cyberstrategy was about how to change the culture of the prison from penal to rehabilitative using a network of computer labs linked to FM radio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

This is a test to see if I've made onto the wireless network in the classroom at the iLaw conference. We're waiting for the first session to begin, Intellectual Property Protection for Code. The speakers are William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain. I'm noticing that many laptops here have bumper stickers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

Zittrain Quotables. " Put a software developer in a room with pizza at one end and software comes out the other end." (Photo of pizza from last night Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers Meeting). "(GNU not UNIX) example of GPL. What does GNU mean? It means GNUS not Unix. "It is a head recursive acronym. " "I love computers and get paid to play with computers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The morning session was titled ???IP Protection for Software??? which covered the legal regimes that might be brought bear on software. The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. It also included a case studies, most notably the SCO vs Linux case which Zittrain, running out of time, condensed into 15 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

Stickers Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Why do people put stickers on their laptops? I was only here for the last day. So I only saw six examples of this - bumper stickers on laptops. Here's the set. According Wendy Koslow it is for identification. So you can easily figure out which laptop is yours. The person next to me, Mike Fisher, from LA who is a business person and programmer says it fis for the same reason people put bumper stickers on their cars: personal expression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

On Friday, I have the opportunity to use 1/3 of Deborah Finn's press pass to the iLaw conference at the Harvard Law School. I get to go for free, but I have to blog at least one of the sessions. I was a little anxious about whether or not I was going to have fun blogging there or not. But thanks to David Weinberger's post today about iLaw, it looks likely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Ed Batista posted some of his reflections about nonprofit blogging in response to reading the interview with Michael Gilbert as did Jon Stahl. Marnie Webb concurs about the fear of blogging from nonprofits, posted on her nptech community blog. Update: Michael Gilbert responds to Jon Stahl's comments: Michael Gilbert Says: June 23rd, 2005 at 9:58 am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

There's a poll on the nptech community site to vote for a name based on the discussions so far. If you'd like to cast a vote, here's the link to the poll. If you're scratching your head and asking, nptech community? what's that. read Marnie Webb's description for context. I like two out of the five.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

In preparation for tommorrow's iLaw , I reviewed some cyberstrategy for third world countries links I've collected. I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Via the Berkman Bloggers list, Cameron Marlow at MIT is working on some social research about weblogs. There is an online survey and anyone can participate. It is a general social survey of the weblog community to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way people communicate with each other. The survey asks about demographics and blog reading/writing habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. Q: When did you start publishing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2005

Exciting news from Marnie Webb at Ext.337 Blog. If you want to help shape the next phase of the NPTECH tag experiment, here's your change! Peter Campbell set up a CivicSpace for the community of users who have developed around the nptech tag at NPTech Community. Peter posted the announcement at NPTech Phase 2. I'm going right over there because I was thinking of doing some interviews with some of the users for an interview feature and this could be a way to help support some of the research need

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

Deborah Finn was invited to be one of the bloggers who receives a press pass to the Internet Law Seminar at the Berkman Center next week. Unfortunately for her (fortunately for me), she couldn't make the third day of conference and arranged for me to be her substitute for the day. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like a great learning opportunity. I was also. thrilled to see a topic of personal interest on the agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

Maybe Alexandra and I can break a record for the longest running bloggespondence on social bookmarking in the blogosphere. I've really enjoyed this back and forth because it provides me an opportunity to go deeper on this topic by connecting with a person I've never met who lives in Canada. I can do this without having to leave my (now) air conditioned office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

The weather is very hot and humid here - over 90 degrees and my office air conditioner (the only one in the house) died. This happened just after I've been thinking to myself how much I'm enjoying blogging AND how much time/work it is to be a consistent half-decent content producer. So, what else could I do, but take my laptop outside to blog in the shade.but it is still to hot to think!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

I've spotted some tell tale signs of continuous computing lately in the posts of some blogs that I read: You try to google a physical piece of equipment or book that you can't find in your office. When you think every t-shirt logo/slogan is about software. When you want to use tags to organize and find stuff in your freezer. You burn the soup because you were multi-tasking in the kitchen - cooking and reading your RSS reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2005

Pearl Bear? She's in Berkeley, CA. Sometimes I wonder where in the world is. an old boyfriend from highschool, a roommate from college, or a colleague I've worked with in the past. My digital trip down memory lane typically takes me to Google and if I'm lucky and the name isn't too common, I might find what they're up to now. Blogging can also help you connect with people from your past but it is more like a "by chance meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2005

Harry, who is 5, finished his first year at his "big boy" school this week. His journal came home in the backpack and we had a chance to read it from cover-to-cover. It is amazing to see the progress from a few words to more complex sentences. Okay, my intent wasn't to brag. The students write in the journals everyday. They would copy a question written on the board or dictated and write a response in their journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. She even has an on-demand lexicon scribe named Rob who captures her new words, phrases, and acroynms, including YASBoS (Yet another social bookmarking service).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Marnie Webb's experiment with TagCloud She took the nptech bloglines feeds and got this tag cloud. She thinks it produces an interesting visual of any group of RSS feeds. She explains more here. Last month I had played with a tagcloud generator that produces a graphic link image of your delicious account. Unfortunately, it can't do specific tags, so I did with Marnie's account where the nptech tag current resides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2005

That's the visual that I did on gnomz.com after I read Alexandra Samuel's post about how to select tags for delicious. You see, I was having a few sleepless nights of my own. I really wanted to know why she stuck with delicious. Her answer: Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. She offers a great list of why delicious is great as well as a list of improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2005

Nancy White at Full Circle found a great example of a ngo event blog called "Walk the World. Thanks Nancy! Gotta track down Michael and interview him. perhaps after the event is over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

The best metaphor for the Walker New Media blog is a fish bowl. Through the glass, we can watch the fish swim, eat, and breath. Through a fish bowl blog, we can learn more about the everyday life of the institution and how staff contribute to the Walker's mission. Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human.

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