Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 23, 2005

One of last month's issues of the Economist featured a cover story was heavy handed against corporate social responsibility. I felt the articles were not at the usual Economist level of analysis, and came across as more a negative editorial than impartial articles. I spotted a link to the letters generated as a result, and they are from a strong group of people making good counter-arguments.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2005

Sarah's work. For over a decade my wife and I have been taking our neice Sarah to the Baltimore Crafts Fair the last week of February each year. Since she was a child she would tell us she would be exhibiting there someday. And this year, indeed she was - and getting a lot of attention for her delicate, precise yet romantic, gold and silver work. See more of her work on her website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 12, 2005

I am already starting to plan my spring trips. One place I will definitely be going is the Sixth National Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance. This is the grassroots conference for social enterprisers: the people who run mission-supporting businesses inside their nonprofit organizations. Last year was a blast, and I am looking forward to this one!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My last Davos Diary piece for BBC News was published this week, 'Meetings of Minds'. This was fun to write, and this Davos was incredible. Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. They say hi and shake hands. Joe exclaims: "You know something? You look a lot like Al Gore.".

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2005

Stoneware piece by Joe Christensen. Here is our new baby! Joe makes these things by working at two wheels at once. On one he throws sections of the pot, on the other he assembles them. He then does a soda-ash firing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2005

I just don't get it with the creators of so-called "fact-based" cinema pieces who lead us to believe they are granting us a glimpse into the lives of people of some historical importance, but in fact feel free to alter events in any way they feel helps make a better story. The movie that's got me bugged this morning is Finding Neverland, in which Johnny Depp portrays J.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2005

If you're like me you read Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm in school. And that's all your know of this guy. The other day I picked up his 1936 novel "Keep the Apidistra Flying". I'd never heard of it, but it had a "Staff Recommendation" flag flying from it in our local bookshop. It's a comic tale, it's light and goes down easy, but it deals with an issue close to all our hearts: money.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2005

Whenever we sit down to talk to a potential new client, they want to make sure we've handled a job as big as theirs before. It goes without saying, their project is big. Complex. Mission Critical. "What's the biggest project you've tackled?" they ask. How to answer? With what yardstick, on what scale do we measure our projects? Its not always easy to answer - one project may seem huge in one dimension - but ask another question, and its very simple and straightforward.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2005

Well, here's a trend that is just starting to break over the horizion - using RSS feeds to provide audio content. Well, its new to me , and probably to most of you, but a quick survey of the web shows me that there are already a surprising number of podcasts buzzing in cyberspace. Everone seems to be talking about the Dawn and Drew Show, for example: a married couple broadca -- oops, podcasting from their 1895 farmhouse in Wisconsin.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2005

In an earlier post, I mentioned that a drawback of gmail was that it did not support the sending of html emails, although it can display html or RTF content. Well, here is a little tool that allows you to compose in html. What is doing is just displaying a currently concealed capability already in the gmail compose page. No wysiwyg yet, but its a start.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

And now for something completely different. Ken Waldman , "Alaskas' Fiddling Poet", dropped by our house last night and performed for a small group of friends. As the Jefferson Airplane used to sing, he's "doing things that haven't got a name yet", combining traditional Amercian fiddle styles with his own poetry and sense of humor about himself, his art, and the entire trandition of American stringband music.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2005

Well, no sooner do I launch my blog by waxing enthusiaistic about the family of Google products than Microsoft, never one to cede any market to anyone, debuts its search engine. We'd have said ho-hum, but our friend Max Blumberg sees it differently: Google ought to be nervous, not because Microsoft's search technology is superior in any way, but because Gates' pride is at stake having personally endorsed it - and no one on the planet has deeper pockets than the Microsoft chairman when it comes t

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