Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2006

The Global Social Venture Competition is a great event: bringing the talents of business school students from around the world to bear on society's pressing problems. I have been a judge twice in the last five years, and the quality of the business plans being judged has simply soared over that time period. I just found out about a matching making blog for the 2007 GSVC, where social groups can link up with students who want to work on a business plan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field. All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2006

Last night we attended a performance of Sandglass and Sovanna Phum ( Here too)- the culmination of these two artists working together from different cultures, puppetry traditions , and language. What they produced was gorgeous, brilliant, and exceptional. It was a fusion of khmer/American artistry like I haven't seen. Oh I wish they would produce a CD of the music too, it was amazing!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 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

OCTOBER 24, 2006

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger. Because I don't see the danger, I don't allow my mind to imagine what might happen to me, which is my definition of fear. If you don't foresee the danger and see only the solution, then you can defy anyone and appear strong and fearless.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2006

There's a little article in the Economist dated October 12th that cites research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland -- part of the N.I.H -- who have been searching for the biological basis of altruistic acts have observed neurochemical correlates of a complex social act of great interest to most non-profit organizations - the act of making of monetary donation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

Brad Stephenson and Jerry Coltin presented a session called " Attack of the Pod People." They covered the why, what, and how to get started of podcasting in the arts sector. They mostly focused on what I call the middle of the road approach. Jerry Coltin gave an excellent overview which included listening to and showing some examples of arts podcasting and video podcasting.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 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

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I have a confession to make. I didn't want to jinx it, so I didn't mention it in my book review of Wangari Maathai's memoir, Unbowed , but I finished the book last week because on Friday my husband and I flew to Los Angeles to hear Maathai speak at a fundraiser organized by the African Millennium Foundation. Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be D

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I just read an interesting post about programmer productivity in Peter Hallam's blog. Peter is a developer for Microsoft; I found his blog via Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog. Peter is writing about how to make programmers more productive and suggests that all the emphasis on helping programmers write new code faster is misplaced, because programmers don't really spend much of their time writing new code.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Just received this photo from the nice folks at the Clinton Global Initiative. Our bold commitment at CGI was to take Bookshare.org international over the next year, finding the authors, publishers and tech company support to reach at least three countries in a significant way. We've already heard about a commitment from Microsoft that will help us meet this commitment, and we're busy working with other funders to help raise the money to make this happen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs October 17, 2006 One of the best parts of Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs. These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 works. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Create Free Polls. I am working on a screencast about widgets -- more specifically free and easy-to-use community building tools for your blog. I'm busy researching and writing the script which will cover the why, what, and examples, but now I'm in the nitty gritty stage of playing with a few widgets. (Maybe I'll go out tonight dressed up as one. that's why I made it black and orange.).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 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

OCTOBER 30, 2006

I just posted my interview with Jessica Jackley Flannery on the Big Vision Podcast. Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Anyone providing any sort of IT assistance to organizations encounters this problem: you've spent an hour or so discussing some emerging need with your users, when they ask,"So what exactly will you do to solve this problem? When will it be done? What's it going to cost us?" And you have no idea yet; you've barely scratched the surface. How do you answer?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 3, 2006

An article of mine just appeared in the Social Enterprise Reporter, entitled High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise. The SER is one of the leading publications in the social enterprise field, and I think it's now one of the membership benefits of joining the Social Enterprise Alliance. I just got back last night from an SEA board meeting in Long Beach, California, where the next annual meeting will be held.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Metaphors October 10, 2006 I’m a fan of metaphors. Human beings use metaphors all the time to understand the world, and to frame it. Metaphors are powerful in terms of the way we think about things. Think about how powerful the use of the metaphors around the "war on terror" are, and how differently we’d think about our world and our life if t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Click To Play I've been exploring about how a teacher or parent might seek out video blog content that is educational for kids not yet ready to mix their own. I created the screencast based on a very quick review in YouTube. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv and found much more appropriate, original, and better quality clips. So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 2, 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

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Can do * good bloggers change the world? I hope so. To inspire more Have Fun * Do Good readers to start their own blogs, I asked one of my fav do * good women bloggers, Siel, or Greeen LA Girl , why she started blogging. Siel writes about all things green in LA and in particular about The Starbucks Challenge and Fair Trade coffee and chocolate. Why did you start blogging?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Just a quick note - TechSoup has posted another resource relating to website accessibility. Four Web Accessibility Myths adds a layer of relfection to some of the more common recommendations and guidelines. For example, most checklists begin with the admonishment to provide alt text for every image. This document points out that if the site is full of decorative images that add little semantic content, alt text on each one can actually make the site less accessible to a user working with screen

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Blancco Donates Data Erasure Software to Nonprofits Through TechSoup : "Press Release Blancco Donates Data Erasure Software to Nonprofits Through TechSoup Posted on : Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:24:00 GMT | Author : Blancco Ltd News Category : PressRelease Like commercial enterprises, nonprofits face a critical challenge when they want to recycle, resell, or reuse obsolete computers: the data remaining on the hard drives need to be professionally wiped in order to maximize data security and prevent data

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied Technology Links (only a little zen) October 19, 2006 For you Windows types, IE 7 is out , and they found a vulerability 24 hours after release. Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

via Ben Stokes from Games For Change comes a pointer to an article from Plenty Magazine called "Just Push Play." It is about an eco-themed video game that is helping the PlayStation generation understand global warming. Developed to teach Australian and U.K. students about environmental issues, Adventure Ecology is one example of a growing field of ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Here is an example of a video game for social marketing (what Nedra Weinreich blogs about , not social networking). UNICEF launched its first interactive video game in Swahili that empowers young people to make good life choices about and prevent HIV. The game, called ???Ungefanyaje??? or ??? What would you do ???? in Swahili, takes the player through a series of relationship-based. scenarios that emphasize the importance of HIV prevention and testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Via an email from my friend Jay Moonah (AKA Uncle Seth) fo the Online Music Marketing comes a pointer to a film focused on the independent music business in Canada and U.S. As an independent consultant (for the past 20 years), I can relate to some of the ideas mentioned. Here's what Jay had to say: Dave Cool (yes, that IS his real name) from Montreal has produced a great film called "What Is Indie?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

via Cathy N. Davidson. HASTAC International Conference, April 19-21, 2007. HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is soliciting. proposals for its first international conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," to be held in Durham, NC, co-sponsored by Duke. University and RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

What does the Internet look like? I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software.

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