April, 2006

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Patrick Ball is our New CTO!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech is all about applying values in the development of technology. I'm excited to announce the appointment of someone who lives these values as our new Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Patrick Ball! Finding the right person for CTO is one of my biggest goals this year, and it didn't dawn on me initially that Patrick wanted to move onto a broader stage from his position as the head of Benetech's Human Rights Program.

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Social Networking for Nonprofits Event at TechSoup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Tenby from TechSoup sent me an email about a free, two-day online event at TechSoup on Social Networking for Nonprofits. This event will be an asynchronous discussion that will occur in the TechSoup.org forums. It will be hosted by Chris Law, co-founder of Tribe.net, Neal Gorenflo, Director of Business Development of Care2Connect.com, Alex Mouldovan, founder of CrowdFactory.com and John Lorance, Associate Director of CompuMentor???

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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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More office cleanup reading.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Here's another interesting article from back in Janaury I just read while sorting through the stacks of magazines in my office. From January's Technology Review : " The Internet is Broken." by David Talbot. You can find it online here. Most of what we read about internet innovation these days focuses on "Web 2.0", on all the new interactive internet applications coming on-line.

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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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Solutionary Women: Mary Brune

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I've started writing a weekly feature over at Blogher called Solutionary Women. I thought I'd share this week's interview with Mary Brune, co-founder of MOMS (Making Our Milk Safe). Mary is a professional writer and mom to her daughter, Olivia. "MOMS was founded by four nursing mothers to address the threat of toxic chemicals in human breast milk.

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Kids in developing nations need basic necessities not 100 dollars laptops : Culture : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

AFP Blog

Kids in developing nations need basic necessities not 100 dollars laptops : Culture : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) : "Kids in developing nations need basic necessities not 100 dollars laptops The Yomiuri Shimbun Here's the vision. Take the best of current laptop technology, strip out the parts that add bloat and weight, develop some cool new alternatives to expensive components, combine it with free software, and wrap everything into a rugged yet handsome package costing a

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Nonprofits of the Future Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I received an email from Paul Lamb encouraging participating in the " Nonprofits of the Future " project. It's an opportunity to dream and vision a little. Paul asks us to answer this question: "What the technologically empowered nonprofit of the future will look like 5 or 10 years down the road?" Paul offers a few wonderful scenarios and there is a lot to ponder in the comments.

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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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Online Content and its Discontents

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I hope most of you have checked out the Non-Profit Blog Exchange that I refer to over in the left sidebar. It's a great way to keep up with the non-profit blogosphere. This week another of the "virtual events" is underway, where we all get paired up and write about each other. When the music stopped, I was dancing with Hilary Marsh, author of Online Content: Thoughts and Ideas.

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Mom Knows Best: Network Neutrality

Have Fun - Do Good

When your mother leaves you a message, in the same tone that she leaves you a message to remember to buy sunscreen with UVA and UVB protection, that you might want to keep your eye on legislation challenging network neutrality and to go to savetheinternet.com and publicknowledge.com , you know it's serious. So for those of you whose mother did not call you this morning, here's the scoop.

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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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World Computer Exchange

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

PCs for poor students. I had a great meeting with Timothy Anderson, the head of the World Computer Exchange , on a recent visit to Boston. I have watched his project as it's grown over the past few years. They take thousands of used PCs (but still decent ones, they are starting to focus on Pentium IIIs) and ship them by the containerload to schools in the developing world.

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Do Social Entrepreneurs Exist?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm responding to Paul Light's first post on Social Edge: Let There Be Light: 1. Do social entrepreneurs exist? The question of "social entrepreneur" being too exclusively applied is somewhat amusing to me. For me, the two main reasons to identify as a social entrepreneur are: 1. You get to meet people who are much more like you than typical nonprofit or for-profit leaders, and 2.

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Saturday spring mornings are for.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

baseball_catch Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. baseball! Harry started Little League. The opening game is next weekend. He has a great pitching arm and pretty good batter too. He's working on catching technique. It is a good thing that at the practices they give them instruction and provide handouts for baseball-impaired parents like us.

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Happy New Year! Thank you Bopha!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Saturday, we drove up to Lowell Community Charter Public School where there was a New Year's party. We arrived late, but just in time for the traditional games. Harry and Sara feel asleep in the car, so they were sleepy when all the other kids were running around playing drop the scarf. (For those in the US, it is like duck duck goose). Then there was lots of popular dancing.

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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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Nonprofit Technology in Austraila

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I came across CommunIT by way of Mike Seyfang - LearnDog. Mike is presenting on blogs and nonprofits at the ConnectingUP , the Austrailian version of the NTC Conference or as it says in its about section "annual national conference, organised by Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) Inc www.cisa.asn.au ???Information and technology services for Australian communities???

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The Intersection of blogging and organizational culture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via a post from roots.lab (whose tagline is "Learning about, thinking about, facilitating the growth of truly empowered cause-centered communities." This post was inspired by the reading of " Naked Conversations." The post speaks to the right organizational culture to support blogging. Some quotes that caught my eye: "If an organization isn???t already in a place where openness and. transparency in communications exists and is practiced, then using. tools like blogs will be unlikely to do anythi

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Ramifications of Web 2.0 for nonprofits with participatory applications

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Christine.net comes a summary of a discussion from N-TEN's NTC Conference last month. This one well worth reading if you're interested in social software and nonprofits. Christine reports that this chicken and egg question came up: " Do people's social needs drive the emergence of new technology, or does. the emergence of these new technologies drive what people want to do?

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Don't Take My Folders Away! Organizing for GTD

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is the title of a research study by William Jones, Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak, Rajdeep Gill, and Harry Bruce that explores the way people organize information in support of projects ("teach a course,' "plan a wedding", etc.) The folder structures to organize project information ??? especially electronic documents and other files ??? frequently resembled a ???

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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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How Bad Presentations Are Born

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At 1:00 p.m. today, I'm taking the N-TEN Webinar by Andy Goodman which is the same title as his new book, "Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes." I highly recommend the book -- I can't rave enough about it. You can order it here. The N-TEN blog has an excerpt from the book here.

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Raising Thousands (if Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with Email

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Madeline Stanionis, author of new book on email fundraising. My colleague Michael Stein emailed me about a month ago right before the NTC Conference to offer me a FREE review copy of a new book by Madeline Stanionis about how nonprofits can raise money online using email. I love the title, " Raising Thousands (if Not Tens of Thousands) of Dollars with Email.

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I'm going to BlogHer 06

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As soon as the announcement came out in January, I registered. But today, blogher Lisa Stone posted the Blogher 06 collection of blog banners and buttons. Here's more information about the conference and registration. Okay, now I need to decide which button to put on my side bar.

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Recommended Book about Nonprofit Sponsorships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Nancy White's post on Blogher comes a recommendation for a book on nonprofit sponsorships titled " Made Possible By " by Patricia Martin from Free Range Librarian , K.G. Schneider.

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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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Digital Storytelling ToolKit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm trying to get myself back into blogging again. There's no other better way than to jump in! I'm researching resources for how-to guide I've just started working and don't it always happen that when I'm looking for resources on a particular topic, I find really great stuff that is not at all related but I'm interested in nonetheless. That's where blogging and delicious can be really handy.

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Fearless Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm edging my way back into blogging sideways. One of the questions my father-in-law has begin to ask, "What's next?" We've all been talking to him about that and we discovered that he always wanted to learn the oboe! That's a hard instrument to learn -- particularly if you are in your 80's. Being a musician and wind player, I suggested taking up a recorder as a first step.

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Deep Web 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Under Pressure Originally uploaded by [ CK ]. I'm busy researching TCO for how-to guide and I keep bumping into very interesting, but non-related articles and resources. So, gotta take a minute or two to capture the concept of the Deep Web, particularly as someone who is on the hunt for good resources - and not just North Americancentric ones. I also want to ponder the concept of the deep web and whether or not Web 2.0 is deep - or just shallow, disjointed, and random.

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Clusty.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just discovered Clusty - which stands for clustering - is a search engine that organizes search results into folders grouping similar items. together. It also can perform searches of multiple blog search engines and organize into folders. I like how the Free Tibet Campaign is using clusty: Okay, back to searching with some new toys.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.