April, 2005

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just returned from a great trip. One of my stops was to the attend the Sixth Gathering of Social Entrepreneurs, organized by the Social Enterprise Alliance , and held in Milwaukee. It was great to have roughly 600 people all getting the energy of social enterprise. The biggest supporter of the conference was Steve Case's Foundation (the founder of AOL).

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Flickr Experimentation

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Instructional Materials Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I love how flickr enables conversation around your photos and connections to people with same intense interests.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was just at the Council on Foundations meeting in San Diego, courtesy of one of our funders (and generally cool people) , the Community Technology Foundation of California. We had a session on the applications of information technology to helping communities of color. I was talking about our human rights work and had some great discussions about working for immigrant rights and against trafficking.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Awesome announcement! Patrick Ball, our Director of Human Rights Programs, will be awarded one of EFF's Pioneer Awards next week. Since Patrick is busy working with the Truth Commission in East Timor, I think they are trying to connect him to the ceremony over the Internet! Electronic Frontier Foundation Announces Pioneer Award Winners I think this is a great recognition of Patrick's incredible contribution to the international human rights movement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Oxford last week for the Skoll Summit was really great. I hadn't seen a city so focused on Fair Trade and social causes, but the Oxfam offices may have been a giveaway. I came away from the Forum with a bunch of ideas, which I have to reduce to something written: hope to link to some of those concepts here soon.

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Cameras for Cambodia

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Before I go on about this interesting artist/social activist project, I found it in the blogsphere. I've been experimenting with cambodia4kids.org blog to test out the instructions/advice I'm reading on various npotech sites about blogs. My own little action learning project. I started to find great expat blogs about Cambodia, particularly sweetcucumber and started to follow the links of the comments and found another blog which referenced Elizabeth's project.

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Getting Started, Blogging Tools and What Makes A Successful Blogger?

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Marnie Webb recently posted an excellent primer on selecting a blogging tool called "So you want get started blogging?" I was in the process of pulling together this information for an afterschool program at ctc and a few others. I was hoping there was something very straightforward and easy to understand about the tool selection and I stumbled upon it.

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Gateway to Educational Materials

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The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. I used it while I was searching for lesson plans for the cluster workshop on Cambodian Culture I'm teaching for K-2 and it turned up resources that I hadn't seen before.

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What time is it in Cambodia?

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ClockLink.com provides analog and digital clocks that you can easily embed in your web page with any time zone of the world. I can answer the question "What time is it in Cambodia?" without missing a beat. This could be an interesting resource for teaching time zones for social studies or math teachers. The world clock site made it easy to figure out what time zone Phnom Penh, Cambodia (GMT + 7:00).

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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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Info overload functions as roadblock to better memory

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An article entitled " Info overload functions as roadblock to better memory " The article makes the point that the problem is a loss of focus. People aren???t paying attention, aren???t taking the time to do one thing at a time and make the whole experience a permanent memory. Hmm. I'm doing about five simultaneously posts right now.

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lotusmedia 2.0 ? Connect!

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Ruby Senreich of Lotus Media just posted her excellent presentation "Network-Centric Advocacy" that she gave to participants in the Open Society Institute???s ???Connect US??? initiative. It provides some theory and practice on social networks and technology tools used to implement an effective grassroots movement for change.

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Blogging for students and teachers K-12

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Doing research right now to develop a simple blogging project as an afterschool project for grades 3-5. There is an interesting conversation going on in the nonprofit technology community about the benefits and barriers to blogging in the nonprofit organization setting. Here's a snippet of the parrall conversation in the educational tech world from Mark Wagner's "Educational Technology and Life" blog.

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Cambodia Culture Quest

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I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." Cluster Week concept is based on Joseph Renzulli???s Triad Model of learning for gifted students where students participate in a variety of workshops that emphasize higher-order thinking skills, providing opportunities for creative and productive applications of these skills to real-world situations.

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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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Digital Video in the Classroom

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I'm working with a newly established community technology center that is housed in an after-school program on an instructional technology plan for lab. One area we're looking at is digital video, so have been madly reviewing educational resources and options. I found a great resource, [link] which had exactly what I was searching for - a piece on strategies for multi-level projects.

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Happy April Fool's Day!

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My laptop died last week in Chicago at the NTC. So, it was a bit difficult for me to find anything to laugh about. I couldn't find anything amusing for my favorite holiday, April Fool's Day and was just going to reference what I wrote on April 1, 2003. Found some inspiration on my favorite blog at the Tombstone Generator.

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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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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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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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Edupodder Home

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Edupodder is a site dedicated to exploring how podcasting can be used in education.

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Why Computers Crash

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Dr. Suess explains why computers crash.

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Technostress and Ergonomics

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My colleague, Cheryl Hanback, is working on a project for her masters degree in instructional design. She needs as many people as possible to fill out this 1-minute survey about pain incurred from sitting at a computer. [link]. About eight years ago, I had a RSI injury from spending way too many hours in front of the computer and not taking breaks or using proper posture.

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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!