June, 2006

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Cell Phone Literacy Ideas in China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages. Having the chance to talk to an expert like Jenny helped me understand the development environment, which cell phone capabilities are widespread in China as well as

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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Today's planning meeting at TechSoup Office in Second Life on Information Island was with a group of avatars, some of who I know in real life , to discuss the upcoming TechSoup mixed-reality e

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

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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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. If you're interested contact Jason Uribe at 510-504-3664 or jason@peoplesgrocery.org.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Blogging Problogger , a service trying to make some money helping people blog, has Darren Rowse's blogging advice this week in Business Blogging 101. Although oriented toward business blogs, the issues he tackles come up in non-profit blogging as well. I've a number of non-profit execs have told me they shy away from blogs because they fear people might use the on-line medium to make critical comments about their organization.

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Wild Apricot Blog : Why did we name our system Wild Apricot?

Wild Apricot

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TechSoup Meeting on June 30th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup Meeting on June 30th Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Great meeting today at the TechSoup Office in Second Life! There's an Net Tuesday event coming up - Mark your calendars - July 18th. It will be a mixed reality event -- in-world and in "real life" at the Tech Soup Office in SF. Want to get involved in the planning? Join the TechSoup discussion list: [link]. and join the next meeting on Friday, July 7th at 11:30 AM EST.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

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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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

Have Fun - Do Good

I got a press release this week (I feel so alternative media), announcing that Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres has started podcasting (yay!). The podcast, Frontline Reports will feature emergency updates from Doctors without Borders projects all over the world. I just listened to the first podcast. It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied

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A New Blog on the Block

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Here's a new non-profit tech blog I wanted to bring to your attention: Today I cried. Weird name, hunh? The anonymous writer explains it this way: I named this site quite appropriately. My first day as the sole technology person at a downtown Manhattan non-profit proved this. It's not that non-profits are difficult places to work, it's that they lack self-respect.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

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.

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Scripps Howard News Service-Non-voice way to communicate popular with young people

AFP Blog

Scripps Howard News Service : "Text messaging has evolved into a powerful non-voice form of communication for cell phone users, especially younger subscribers who love to trade short notes and updates. The practice has grown in just a few years to the point where more than one-third of cell phone users regularly send and receive text messages, most of them personal.

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Concept from Rod Beckstrom

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rod Beckstrom, prominent Silicon Valley tech executive, was in Pakistan during the great quake (although not in the quake zone when the big one hit). He passed along some interesting requirements that are well worth thinking about. I am sure that Rod's concept is doable: may be being done already deep inside Google! Here are the comments I received from Rod: When I was in Pakistan one month after the quake, I met with multiple groups involved in information sharing among the various thousands (l

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Idealware Blogging Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Quinn Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I ran into Laura Quinn from idealware.org at the games expo at the end of the first day of the Games 4 Change Conference in NYC. Laura was late getting to the conference because she was putting the finishing touches on the blogging report due out at the end of the week.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

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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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Solutionary Women: Caroline Ticarro-Parker

Have Fun - Do Good

This week's Solutionary Woman is Caroline Ticarro-Parker, the Executive Director of Mind on the Media, the nonprofit that sponsors Turn Beauty Inside Out, a campaign to raise awareness about sexist portrayals of girls and women by the media. The most recent Turn Beauty Inside Out Girls Leadership Retreat just happened in Queens, NY June 21-24th. You can read some of the girl's blog posts from the retreat here.

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Bill High

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

My very good friend Bill High died in a traffic accident on Friday. Bill was a guy who did not own a computer, and never carried a cell-phone. He never used email for personal correspondence; a note-card was far more to his liking. Bill had a sharp, wacky, intellectual sense of humor. He didn't believe that information packaged in bite-sized feeds for easy digesting was of much value - if we saw a movie together, I'd be likely to find sixty xeroxed pages of scholarly articles about the director

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Youth Connection Session at Games 4 Change Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Notes from live blogging. All the usual disclaimers apply - typos, grammar, etc. Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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LIve Blogging from the Games for Change Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. All the usual disclaimers related to typos, etc. My train from Boston was late, so I'm little late getting here. Still doing setting the context. Still trying to get bearings here and some coffee. More later. The tag being used here: 06-g4c The speaker is making an analogy to the early days of television (how it was bad) and asking us to insert the word "games.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good." In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Susan Seggerman, co-founder of Games for Change, introduced Stephen with a great story. They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

LIve blogging from the Serious Games Conference - usual disclaimers apply to typos, etc. Will clean up later. Dick Cavett quote: Does comedy on television lead to comedy in the streets? Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers.

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Funding Perspectives: Games for Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Perspectives: New Initiatives Connie Yowell (MacArthur Foundation), Franklin Madison (ITAC), Chinwe Onyekere (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), Jee Kim (Surdna Foundation); moderated by Suzanne Seggerman (Games for Change) Description How can funders with a specific social goal ensure they get a useful game? What is drawing them to the new field of using games for real-world change?

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Pathfinder in RL at the G4C Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pathfinder Linden at the G4C Conference Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. At lunch there were small groups by region. At the Boston/New England group, I met PathFinder. He had just checked his email and already knew about the TechSoup's Second Life Nonprofit Directory!

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Educating to Mobilize the Masses David Williamson Shaffer (UW-Madison), Doug Nelson (Doorknocker Simulation/ Kinnection), Nelson Layag (CompassPoint Nonprofit Services) How can organizations educate their masses for door-to-door canvassing, fundraising, or advocacy? Often the effective practices are well documented, but the novices -- who are often in the majority -- lack both the core civic skills and the confidence for independent experiential learning.

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Back to Analog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Great article in the Boston Globe about PDA buffs going back to paper. Includes this sweet link to the PocketMod. I just made one. It was super easy with the instructional video. I never really left paper. I use a PDA more as decoration than anything else. so I'm so glad to see that paper is cool again. (I'm a paper artist, btw.

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Social Marketing University

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nedra Weinreich who writes the Spare Change blog and is the author of the Social Marketing: A Step-By-Step Guide is offering a two-day social marketing training in Los Angeles on September 18-19 at the UCLA Conference Cenference on the UCLA campus in Westwood. The training will cover these topics: How social marketing uses commercial marketing tools to create behavior change.

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Technology in the Arts Conference: Oct. 20-21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been invited to be on the Honorary Committee for the Technology in the Arts Conference. The conference will take place in Pittsburgh on October 20-21, 2006. The idea is to bring together a variety of people in the arts sector to examine the commonalities that exist in useful technologies as well as the opportunities for partnership. It's part of the 10th Anniversary for Center for Arts Management ( CAMT ).

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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NGOS, Collaborative Technologies, and Interesting Women!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.

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Berkman Island on Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. (Next meeting is 10:30 a.m. PST at the TechSoup Office). So, I volunteered some time to work with Emily Commerce and Lyre Calliope on researching and compiling the nonprofit directory on Second Life - which

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Meet Erica Sonnier: All the Rumpus Blog Administrator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Erica Sonnier with daughters and new puppy ( photo on flickr). Erica Sonnier is the ???Blog Administrator??? at Community Season, the developer a web-based automation tool for community organizations called Rumpus ( [link] ). The client base includes park and recreation organizations. 1. What does someone with the title ???Blog Administrator??? do? I am the writer/editor for our company???

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Sara Turns Five Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

sara b-day cake Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Sara celebrated her 5th Birthday over the weekend - we had a double-header of celebrations - butterfly birthday party and Father's Day! No wonder I'm exhausted.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.