Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2006

Jimmy Does Davos At the suggestion of Victor D'Allant (Mr. Social Edge), I've invited my 20-year-old son to comment on his experience accompanying me to Davos. Jimmy wasn't admitted to the core Forum events, but was able to attend about half of what I did. My Davos Experience -Jimmy Fruchterman I really wasn't sure what to expect coming to Davos. When my father offered to take me I accepted without hesitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year! It's time for a lion dance! It's the Year of the Dog and I'm getting ready for my annual Chinese New Year's Lesson in Harry's and Sara's school. Here's the lesson plan, approximately 1 hour: 1. Introduction to Chinese New Year. I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture.

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JANUARY 4, 2006

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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2006

I read this article about gospel aerobics in the Oakland Tribune after Christmas and thought it was great. During a gospel aerobics class, the instructor plays gospel music (which I love), and makes connections for the women between their spiritual and physical health. As one student says, "It's a whole approach that the body is your temple as opposed to 'Thin is in,'" John says.

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JANUARY 13, 2006

Martin Luther King's birthday is now a holiday. but how do we as technologists use it to further the American dream of justice and equality? I came across this in a blog posting by the poet Charles Chatmon: our children will be told part of the story, but not the whole. They'll be told that Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize; but won't be told he was stabbed, they'll hear from pundits how elegant and powerful his speeches were, but failing to realize the huge opposition he faced in taking his su

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2006

Social Responsibility in Davos I attended a great breakfast this morning on the digital divide. Now, digital divide has been a buzzword for a long time, but we've learned a lot from different initiatives and the ICT industry is very interested in continuing to work on the issue from a lot of angles. This morning's breakfast was a very active discussion with about fifty people from industry, government and NGOs (the nonprofit sector), ably moderated by David Kirkpatrick of Fortume Magazine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2006

Putting the Social Into Davos I arrived in Davos Sunday night for the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Summit. Dr. Klaus Schwab has made social entrepreneurship his cause, and over the past five year has brought social entrepreneurs into the World Economic Forum. That's easy for him to do because he founded the Forum! Forty Schwab SEs are here, and a bunch of them are new.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2006

Anti-WEF Protest in Zurich I'm not supposed to start blogging about Davos and the World Economic Forum until Tuesday, but the WEF found me in Zurich on Saturday night. My son, Jimmy, and I were wandering through the old town to find dinner and we ran into a good-sized protest against the WEF by a couple of hundred folks in black ski masks. They stopped right in front of us (outside the Zic Zac Rock Hotel) and someone did a five minute harangue in German over a megaphone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 21, 2006

Online Memorial to Iranian Victims Roya and Ladan Boroumand might be the first to say that they are not "techies". But you would hardly know it from looking at the beautiful website they just released. Their website , found at [link] is an on-line memorial honoring over nine thousand victims allegedly killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution in 1979 and an extensive library of documents relating to human rights and democracy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 6, 2006

Uncovering the truth about deaths in East Timor One of Benetech's biggest Human Rights projects has been our work for Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR). The report has been completed, but not released publicly. There have been many articles about what the report does or does not say, and Benetech human rights team has not been able to comment because of the still-confidential nature of the report.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2006

Four Big Questions about the Future of the Web I am part of supporting Compumentor's big NetSquared event, and they asked me to answer four key questions about the future of the web and the nonprofit sector. I had fun answering the questions, and also tapped the considerable brainpower and experience here at Benetech in answering the questions. I'll just quote the last question and my answer, because these are really critical issues!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 3, 2006

Donated Servers We just received several servers donated by an anonymous investment firm in our area over the holidays. These are going to come in handy for experimenting with new server projects, as well as being a backup for our main in-house server. We really appreciate this kind of support: in-kind technology donations of things we need are very helpful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

Ponzi, who I met at blogher, loves postcards. She has a wonderful tradition - sending other bloggers postcards from her travels. Most recently, she visited Bangkok. I was the lucky recipient of the above postcard with the cool Red Cross stamp. My kids loved it and Sara took it to pre-school with her. I'm continuing Ponzi's tradition but with a slight twist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

I've been doing a Webinar for N-TEN called "Designing Effective Technology Learning Experiences" -- basically about how to make technology trainings more interactive -- which includes designing participant interactivity - either in small groups as well as blended into presentation/lecture. One of the exercises is to take Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and integrate it with technology content to design a small group exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2006

I received an email from Tomas Krag telling me about his new book on wireless networking for the developing world : Together with a group of my friends and colleagues, I have been. working on a book specifically about wireless networking for the developing world. After 4 months of work, we are proud to announce the completion of a. 250-page free book, jam-packed with information about building wirelss. networks in the developing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

Today I discovered an interesting blog named ScoutSeven Blog Land. ScoutSeven is a project devoted to "harnessing the convergence of innovative online technology, grassroots organizing, organizational development and social justice values." The founder is Leda Dederich whose expertise is technology for grassroots organizing. What caught my eye was a post on chocolate bribes. and fair trade chocolate at that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

After a long day without much fun, I took a break to catch up on some bloglines reading. It was only going to be for five minutes, I swear. but at Network-Centric Advocacy blog, I found fastr flickr a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. (What a nice tool to use in a training session.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

I got an email from Dave Pentecost asking if me if I was the same Beth Kanter (not that article is like 5 years old!) and if I had any advice on credit card vendors that are nonprofit friendly. (I don't track this stuff closely anymore, but pointed him to a few other sources.). Dave was asking for his wife whose heart and brain child is the entrepreneurial program of the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Michael Glibert wrote an interesting thought piece on the N-TEN Blog called Asking the Wrong Questions: Challenging Technocentrism in Nonprofit Technology Planning. I wholeheartedly agree with his thesis and one that we're keeping mind as we design our NTC session on blogging. I believe that most practitioners of nonprofit technology planning are asking the wrong questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

Mode is a new. space on the web dedicated to exploring museums, objects, design. and exhibitions. A work in progress, it is intended that mode. will act as a space for open dialogue, evolving at the hands. of its authors and contributors. How did I discover this new blog? Well. Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2006

Britt Bravo over at Netsquared found an excellent post via the net2 tag entitled " Why Nonprofits Should Blog." The post was written by Whitney Smith of the nonprofit, Girls for a Change , a client of Voce Communications. I am interested in this article because I'm the session designer at this year's NTC Conference for a session tentatively entitled "The Blogging Revolution: Evolving Best Practices that Can Make Blogging Work for Some Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2006

No way Originally uploaded by *Ivan*. No way. FREEDOM FOR UAE FLICKR USERS: sign the petition. PLEASE, EXPRESS HERE YOUR OPINION WITH TAGS, COMMENTS, AND SO ON. By order of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Etisalat actively censors internet sites, they are known to block a number of materials they deem offensive. Via Britt Bravo's post about Net2Tuesday on Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

When I was in Cambodia, I was told that most Cambodians don't celebrate their birthdays. particularly those in rural areas who don't keep formal calendars. When I purchased the above card from a street vendor in Phnom Penh for Sara's birthday, I asked her why she sold birthday cards if people didn't celebrate the day? She told me that the cards were mostly for foreigners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

If you are a regular reader of the Cambodia4kids Blog or read Global s Online , you already know about the Cambodian Government's actions to silence critics of the ruling party hit its peek when Human Rights activists Kem Sokha, Yeng Virak and Pa Nguon Teang were all arrested regarding banners displayed on Human Rights Day December 10, 2005. These newly detained activists were thrown into Prey Sar prison with journalist Mam Sonando and teacher's union leader Rong Chhun, who were both arrested 3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2006

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. The topics: * What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Are you an alternative world news agency? A stage for global activism? An international collection of diaries? Will your site always be English only?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

I've had a couple of ideas swirling around in my head. mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? Can blog communities be facilitated? What are the similarities and differences between online discussion boards and blog communities? The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2006

I've been avoiding tools like Greasemonkey only because I thought it might be too technical/geeky for me. But I was motivated to install because I came across a tweak that would really improve my blogging efficiency (integrating delicious and bloglines). It's this one. Okay, so I installed the greasemonkey and downloaded the script. But when I go in bloglines the script is not working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2006

Technorati is a blog search engine. Here are some links that can help you understand what it is and how to use to find other blogs of interest or have people find your blog. Technorati Tags: Introduction from by Improbulus How to Boost Your Blog Traffic with Technorati (tells you how to claim your blog, rankings, etc) Technorati Hacks (covers some tips and tricks for searching, being found, pinging, etc.).

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