Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IPv6 September 29, 2006 So, this blog won’t be totally technology zen. Sometimes, I’ll talk about technologies I think are just cool, and useful, and, well geeky, ’cause I can’t help being a geek.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
I am an enthusiastic support of the social enterprise movement, people who are operating enterprises that have social outcomes as a primary goal. One of the most interesting things from a recent Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance was having an interview with a Hong Kong film crew that was doing a piece on social enterprise. I was delighted to see the latest web site in Hong Kong about social enterprise, the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Resource Web.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." I love seeing this through Loretta's lens of learning. Specificallly, she challenges the idea put forth by Nancy White " The act of production is an act of meaning making." Loretta argues: The first supposition is that as various means are used to capture the proceedings of an event, (Nancy mentions: Chat/IRC, Videoc
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 20, 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
SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. I read my new issue of Ode , With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky, and a new magazine, GOOD. I'd been looking forward to GOOD for a while after Green LA Girl wrote about it, and after talking to Christine Soto at the GOOD Magazine booth at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp. Christine was nice enough to send me a review copy before I left on my trip.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
The first two links today are motivated through my participation in Emily's Non Profit Blog Exchange. For this round I've drawn two blogs - one new to me and one I commented on just last week. Random Thoughts on Life and Work I'd never run into this blog before - this is why the blog exchange is so useful! Random Thoughts is written by a non-profit development professional, so a lot of the material is fundraising and marketing oriented.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
I am listening to Senator Clinton right now, as the Clinton Global Initiative makes it to its last couple of hours. The conference has been very interesting: great people and speakers, and an unusual format (the demand that every attendee make a specific commitment to social change). I think it really has catalyzed commitments: Richard Branson made a 3 billion commitment yesterday in the area of climate change.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
Lately, the crap to good stuff ratio has been a little skewed toward crap when it comes to trackbacks and somewhat with comments. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them. But, lately, there has been a lot of trackback and comment spam. At first, I thought it might have something to do with this , but it is just spam.
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 20, 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.
Have Fun - Do Good
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
I consume way too much celebrity gossip. I've got Pink is the New Blog and A Socialite's Life in my feed reader; buy US Weekly and People to "send to my grandma" (which I do, after I've read them); will flip back and forth between Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood if I'm home alone (my husband is a sensible man who thinks America's celebrity culture is gross), and don't even try to schedule anything the night of the Golden Globes.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
Web Accessibility standards are not new, but as the internet becomes more central to American life, the issue of website usability by people with disabilities is getting its day in court. My colleague Jack Dill, marketing director at the YMCA of Greater Omaha, sent me a link yesterday to an article in the Non-Profit Times discussing the lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) against Target Corp.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
Things are really hopping around Benetech today! I was just named a MacArthur Fellow and the phone is ringing off the hook and the emails are streaming in. Because the MacArthur process is secret, I don't know who to thank for this, so I'm thanking everybody! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Soon I'll be remembering everyone I should be thanking, but I should start with my family, the Benetech team (including our board and advisors) and of course our supporters, all of whom made this honor possi
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
Jon Stahl points us to a piece in the Seattle Times on the emerging local citizen journalism movement in Seattle. Notes a journalism educator in the article, "We're in a time when activist citizens and sometimes even the general public have an opportunity to be involved and create meaningful and easy-to-share journalism." Now substitute the word "journalism" and think about the sharing notes and knowledge from conference.
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Forum One
SEPTEMBER 14, 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.
Have Fun - Do Good
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
After including Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women in my post about Giving Circle Book Groups , someone from the International Museum of Women asked me if I would post the submission guidelines for Imagining Ourselves , "an online global exhibit featuring art, photographs, essays and film by young women in their 20s and 30s answering the questions, "What defines your generation?
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2006
I've been called a Luddite in these pages before (in response to Software Bricklaying ) but this is the first time it's been meant as a compliment. Michelle Murraine gives me the title after quoting approvingly from my posting on "interruptive technologies" and the need to manage them to permit attention. But after all, her new blog, Zen and the Art of NonProfit Technology is subtitled "conscious, minimalist, neoluddite perspectives on nonprofit technology.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
A Bookshare.org member is going to be featured this weekend on on TV on Extreme Makeover. Cindy, one of our volunteers, shared the following on our volunteer listserv (and she said it better than I could!): The opening episode, two hours, of Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, features the home and family of one of our bookshare members and active volunteers, Vic Llanes.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. But a big congratulations goes to Jo Lee. - an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success. 1.
Have Fun - Do Good
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
I spent the weekend getting my garden ready for Fall. It is a small space that up until now I have only planted flowers in, but I think I am going to try putting in some winter vegetables. In Northern California you can still grow veggies like lettuce, spinach, leeks and chard. If you have only a small space for a garden, I saw this link on Hugg.com to a post that describes how to build a square foot garden (photo above).
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
I've just become acquainted with the work of the late Claudio Ciborra , thanks to a posting by my friend Adriano. Ciborra's research was in the social study of information and communication technology; Ciborra felt always that Information Technology must be understood as a social rather than scientific discipline. In Ciborra's approach, the user of a system -- the "actor" typically designated by a stick figure in standard system diagrams -- must be understood as a person and not a robot.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Catching up September 1, 2006 It’s not until I’ve spent a little time reading a wider array of nptech blogs that I have realized how much has changed in the last year or so, since I was last really imbedded in the field.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
Our volunteers are essential to accomplishing Benetech's mission. From time to time, I like to highlight the contributions of particular volunteers. Today, I'd like to honor Matthew Devcich, a high school student and aspiring Eagle Scout, who chose to focus his major Scout project on Bookshare.org. Our Bookshare.org team was delighted to work with Matthew, who was meticulous in his preparation and organization.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006
Today I attended the first in a series of N-TEN and Idealware Webinars called "Choosing a Blogging Tool" based on Idealware's excellent report. While I am familiar with the content, I am very impressed at how Laura Quinn can clearly describe the various software features in easy to understand terms. Great work! I was struck at the number of folks participating who had questions about blogging community platforms and level of the participant questions.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
Via a short blurb in the email newsletter from the good folks at OneNorthwest Distributed Online Volunteerism with MediaVolunteer.org. Pssst. want to see the future? Our friends over at Green Media Toolshed / Netcentric Campaigns are about to launch a powerful new service which harnesses distributed research from a loose network of volunteers. Volunteers are quickly checking and verifying changes in media lists.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
I've been thinking alot about liveblogging at conferences and Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Events (as well as here ) Many of brilliant colleagues amplified my thinking outloud by adding some great insights of their own, including Nancy White , Chris Brogan , John Smith , Bev Traynor , Rob Cottingham , David Wilcox , and Amy Gahran.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
Cool Cat Teacher Blog "Teaching content with new tools, enthusiasm, and belief that teaching is a high calling." bring attention to a post " The Power of the Newbie." She suggests that Newbies (bloggers, vloggers, etc) should: Here is what you should do when you are a newbie: Keep a notepad handy and write down the steps to accomplish your task including any "glitches" or nuances.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
Hmm. got your attention? Well, Nancy Schwartz certainly got mine with her directory of nonprofit and foundation CEO blogs. There is only one blog described so far and she is asking folks to refer others via email. I am wondering if they will be hard to find. I've noticed quite a few anonymous blogs from Philthanthropic leaders and most have been abandoned.
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