Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2010

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! DIA Blog - " E-xemplar: Ways to Make Legislative Campaigns Suck Less " Global NpTech Can anyone translate?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Brooks shows that if the world had a global approach to outbreaks like Swine Flu, then the decision-making and directive power would be in a really bumped up World Health Organization-like group.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If the question at hand was a global treaty setting “fair use” as a global norm, I would expect the same objections. The reason there’s a global book famine is because the money to do this voluntarily, and do it for each and every country over and over again, doesn’t exist and will not exist in the foreseeable future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Unfortunately, not the best thing for global nonprofits. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

A hot topic at the SCCR20/WIPO discussions in Geneva on global access to materials by the print disabilities is the term "Trusted Intermediaries"("TIs"). proposal has similar (but not quite as out there) language saying that the organization using the exception has to have the trust of both the publishers and the consumer groups.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2009

TechSoup Brazil , a collaborative effort of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN) and TechSoup Global, was launched has just officially launched after many months of planning. I'm pleased to say that I can nearly read it with my Spanish-language experience. but not quite. Welcome, Brazil! Saudo Brasil!).

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

Their team of digital volunteers, already trained in public affairs and talking to the media, used specific language to represent themselves as Red Cross voices online. For Hurricane Irene, the Red Cross used volunteers to listen as well as respond in the social media space, to ensure 24 hour coverage during the storm.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

Global peer to peer relationships – People can now connect from a variety of locations on a peer basis without the need for long formalities that can sometimes work as walls to keep people out rather than protected. Not in the language of multiple choice surveys but in the a real spoken language.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here in Barcelona, it's standard to see three languages on labels (Catalan, Spanish, English), and in Scandinavia I've seen as many as six. Even in North America, it's becoming typical to see two languages on the walls. As far as I see, an institution like this could: focus on non-language-based participation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

There are many good reasons to travel: There is nothing like a face-to-face meeting to forge a relationship or read subtle body language cues; spending time immersed in a different culture opens our eyes, minds and hearts; traveling to a client, partner or donor shows them that they are important to you and your organization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2009

It makes sense for Mozilla to take the initiative to put together a project like this; after all, it's largely volunteer efforts that have put together Mozilla products, translated them into dozens of languages, and built plugins to extend functionality in every conceivable direction. Tags: Accessible Technology.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Eventually, higher resolution screens and devices like Amazon.com's Kindle will make it easier for human eyes to scan e-text, but for now, make the bullet point and the tag your best friends. (Hint: they don't.) While you should be wary of anybody promising to teach you how to make people laugh, some of the advice itself can be pretty funny.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. NIDA is a partner with Khmer Open Source Project , an Open Source Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions for software applications and operating system , a Linux SuSE 9.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong. Push yourself to really test the limits of your beliefs when thinking about our individual roles in extending literacy globally. Tags: CSR Promotions. In the years to come, I spent endless hours in that cramped space.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

Brian has big ideas about reducing language barriers on the Internet, and his enthusiasm is nothing if not contagious. In a time when more and more nonprofits are blurring the line between local and global, I think that services like WWL can make a huge difference in how we communicate and collaborate. Tools Web 2.0

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

During the camps, groups and leaders quickly self-identified and immersed themselves in solving humanitarian relief problems like coordinating relief workers and negotiating language barriers. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). We just need to make sure that any global treaty that is negotiated doesn’t make things worse for people with disabilities here in the U.S.!

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" Insulting your boss with such colorful language isn't the only thing we need to be careful of. But if your organization is global, sharing information about a recent travel adventure could be helpful. Filter our personal blog entries by using the tag "linkedin" in the settings of your WordPress blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. His english language blog can be found here. He recently started a " Khlog " or Khmer Language blog. Technorati Tags: nptech I am Cambodian. YCC Network.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

There is something beneath the language of "what works" that can kill innovation. Tags: socap09. A different spin on the concept of mistakes and failure: " Mistakes should be considered failures if they fail to correct the problem. And if the correction creates new problems.". That it is about effectiveness and quality, not growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

It was difficult to learn to the language at first! The committee members of Community Forestry and Ecotourism projects were trained in basic computer skills and English language skills. Cross-posted on Global s. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , cambodia Although I come from a different culture, it doesn't hamper my work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. Tags: backchannel. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? So, if you're moderating a panel, think of yourself as a giant insect!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Not many Cambodians are doing vlogs yet and there are some good reasons for that (equipment, lack of Internet access, language barriers, skills, etc.) Cross posted on Global s. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech That aside, I want to encourage Cambodians to vlog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Gave a grant to global kids. Global kids has been working with MacArthur to understand youth s as related digital media. Speak the language of your audience. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c Will have a public launch of the series in September - with online discussions with the authors. Don't have enough kids talking themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

Continue my Typing To Learn Khmer Blog A suggestion from the Globalization panel was to practice learning another language - so I got validation for my khmer studies. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon I have avoided this because I don't like self-promotion. I'm still not sure I can bring this one to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. For development, there are blogs from agencies like bellanet or global s for a selection of blogposts from any country you are interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. The campaign tag is: sopharath. What a dork I am!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Groups such as NTEN, TechSoup Global, NPower, and your regional nonprofit association may also be able to provide resources and guidance. Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN Newsletter cassie scarano. Perhaps a Board member is a technology professional or could connect you with technology professionals from their company.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

It’s no surprise that positive in-person interactions that support a variety of languages, attitudes, and experience in museums can be the biggest factor in promoting inclusion. Tags: design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum. They aren’t isolated “first Sunday” programs; they change the face of the museum to visitors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

So to get the design and language geared to them is very difficult because most of the stuff for them is ads and magazines. We tell them: here’s a global forum for you. And they’re already behind globally. It's been amazing, working with the language of innovation. Tags: web2.0 I get forwards daily from teens.

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