November, 2005

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World Summit on the Information Society

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Watching policeman rough up a taxi driver. Second and final delayed blog posting from Tunis. Original post from Nov 18, 2005: The WSIS Summit continues to be fascinating. In a recent post, I alluded to human rights activists getting beat up. Yesterday I had a personal experience with the police presence. I took a taxi back to the conference after a brief visit to Carthage for lunch.

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Great Summary of Folksonomies and Museums Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin. RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above. It's described as: HangingTogether is a place where some of the staff at RLG, a membership organization of libraries, archives, and museums, can talk about the

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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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Do Good Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, low key, lots of food, but Christmas kinda stresses me out. Every year I tell myself that I won't buy into the hype. I won't feel like I have to prove how much I love my family and friends with something I give them on December 25th. I went to an acupuncturist a long time ago who told me that Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve fall at the wrong time of year.

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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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Read a good book lately?

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Not yet. And you can't really read three or four of them while waiting to order your latte. And I've been dying to start really using my wiki for something.

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techSoup NetSquared Project to Remix Web for Social Change;

AFP Blog

Untitled Document : "TechSoup NetSquared Project to Remix Web for Social Change; Call for Participation in Using Web 2.0 to Transform Nonprofit Sector SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- CompuMentor's TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) today announced a call for participation in its Net2 ('NetSquared') ([link] project. It is the first-ever public dialog on fostering the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the nonprofit sector.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a lot of turkey art work in our house this week! If you're getting a hankering to draw one, here's a useful guide. Download drawturkey.pdf. Harry performed a song called "Albuquerque Turkey" which is about having a turkey for a pet, not Thanksgiving dinner. Here's the video. Download turkey.wmv.

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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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The Purpose Prize

Have Fun - Do Good

SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize. Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. The awards will be given out in June at a national summit that will recognize the leaders and 60 semi-finalists. Nominations (including self-nomination) will be accepted Dec. 1-Feb. 28 by mail and online.

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Weeding Out Misguided Complexity

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One of the advantages of good software is that it enables an organization to manage a great deal of organizational complexity. But there is a sort of misguided complexity I'm concerned about, complexity whose cost outweighs its benefits. We've been at this business for over 15 years, and in that time computers have become ever more central to organizational life.

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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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Benetech & Human Rights in China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Tech Awards yesterday were a blast. The Mercury News ran a great story and quoted Peggy Gibbs, one of our execs: Old problems, new solutions : The Tech Museum Awards also provide a venue for many local foundations and non-profits to seek out new ideas and partners. "One of the reasons we're here is to make sure we're continuously collaborating," said Peggy Gibbs, vice president of business development for Benetech, a Palo Alto non-profit that looks for ways technology can help solve the prob

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World Usability Day - Accessibility Channel » Technology Social Entrepreneurship and Accessibility of Web Services

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Thursday is World Usability Day, and I'll be giving a on-line session entitled Technology Social Entrepreneurship and Accessibility of Web Services at 20:10 GMT, or 12:10pm PST. I never have done such an event, so I'm looking forward to trying it out!

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STEVE stands for.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

S ocial T erminology E nhancement through V ernacular E ngagement. Read the article by Jennifer Trant and David Berman in D-Lib. Steve is mentioned in an recent C-NET article. Jennifer Trant is working on her PhD in the Faculty of Information Studies @ Uof T. She has worked in museum informatics for many years, including 10 as co-chair of Museums and the Web.

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501c3Cast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On most mornings, I try to get my exercise done in the morning, a five mile run or spinning. Just so it doesn't get boring, I take my Ipod along and listen to music or podcasts. This morning I missed out on my run, but this week's show over at 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals, had arrived and I simply could not wait until tommorrow.

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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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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download.

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Harry's Loose Tooth Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Harry's first baby tooth is loose. It has been loose for about ten days now. It hasn't yet fallen out. To honor this rite of passage, we created one-minute documentary about loosing your baby teeth in Cambodia and America. Wanna, a Cambodian blogger, contributed to the sound files of the phrase "tooth" in Khmer. I'm nervous. This is my first toothfairy assignment.

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Technology, Gender Roles, and Early Childhood Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click here to download video. My daughter is 4 and in her pre-school is a computer. I've been lingering a little at drop off to observe how she interacts with her peers at the computer. It struck me how gender inequities start an early age. I thought that with some intervention we might avoid some problems for my daughter down the road should she wish to pursue technology.

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She's Such A Geek: Call for Submissions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders are editing an anthology of essays titled "She is Such a Geek," an Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books, Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution. They are looking for submissions of essays. Here are the details on how to submit your essay. Technorati Tags: webjustice2.

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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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Myth Busting: Women Don't Podcast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lisa Stone's recent post on the Blogher Blog, " True or False: Do "women warm the podcast bench? " responds to Steve Friess' report for Wired News on the lack of a presence of women at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference. Lisa writes: What worries me is that just because women didn't show up on that radar at podcasting's inaugural conference doesn't mean we aren't podcasting.

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Meet The Dream Geek Team for Free Speech Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Global s Online, Rebecca MacKinnon. From a post on Global s, Rebecca MacKinnon writes "These guys are basically the dream geek team for free speech on line. They gave instructions in detail about how non-governmental organizations, human rights groups, and individuals trying to speak the truth under dangerous circumstances can secure their communications and data, and minimize the likelihood that people will get caught or arrested as a result of their work.

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Computer Arts & Crafts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also a paper artist. I create art with paper. My tools include pens, ink, rivets, glue, ribbon, and many other objects. I explore techniques as diverse as orgami to stamping. As people who know me well, greeting cards are always handmade. I've also played with the idea of computer arts & crafts -- integrating digital and handmade art. For example, using a rubber stamp to create an image, scan it, and manipulate it and then use it as part of a paper collage.

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Welcome Joitske!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is my "virtual" colleague Joistke Hulsebosch. We've never met face-to-face, but we have many similar interests. We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. In addition to the workshop curriculum, we were encouraged to explore our own inquiry questions. Mine included: How can blogs play a role in online community building?

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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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Are Mistakes A Bad Thing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I stumbled upon that logo today.and it was actually the third click in a row that where I saw the word "mistake." Last night Corey asked me a great question. "What a mantra that you often say to motivate yourself?" I've always said, "Mistakes are our best teachers." Many times people become mistake phobic and a mistake becomes a point of shame.

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Four-Minute Documentary: How To Guides

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been looking for some how-to guides for mini-documentaries that would cover some of the asethetics, planning, and process as well as the technical parts. I came across the FourDocs Guides via Nonprofit Online News. A lot of what is here could be adapted for vlogging if you wanted to create "vlogumentaries." I loved the " Start Thinking " guide that teaches how to structure, subject, and style.

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Mistakes Are Opportunities for Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can make better choices chair Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Marnie Webb asks "Why don???t we think mistakes are a part of excellence? I think in our culture we tend to view someone who has made a mistake as being "dumb." Maybe it has something to do with our upbringing or our educational experience. We were not taught at an early age that "reflection" is a good thing, let alone how to do it.

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First Mommy Bloggers, Now Mommy Casters!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met some of the "Mommybloggers" at blogher. and more recently they launched a site called, what else, Mommybloggers. The goal "is to expose the diversity of the writers who commonly fall under the label "mommyblogger. We will feature women who will share how their experiences in motherhood effect the many various aspects of her life in humorous, supportive and informative ways.

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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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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.

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501c3 Cast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm on a little podcasting kick here. Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Corey Pudhorodsky who is the and brains behind 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals. Corey Pudhorodsky is the Terry Gross of the nonprofit podcasting world. He asked great questions and a great "FM radio ," not to mention a good sense of humor.

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More on Podcasting Without Electricity. some creative ideas from the Walker

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while on the topic of nonprofit podcasting, the thread on TechSoup. has a great post by Eric Williams from the Walker New Media Initiative. I'm a big fan of the Walker's experimentation with blogs, wikis, and podcasting. Eric posted some excellent thoughts on the problem that Cambodian bloggers have to get past - podcasting without electricity. Since I can't point to the specific post in the thread, I'm excerpting here.

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Some Vlog Posts from Blogher Meetup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nonprofit technology social calendar was packed full this evening with events happening all over Harvard Square, from the Symposium on Social Architecture co-sponsored by Corante and the Berkman Center to the 501 C3Tech Club gathering to a Blogher Meetup ! If you want to find out more about the conference, read the tagged blog posts from the conference here and the nonprofit technology spin here.

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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.