Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Consider Google and other search engine advertising (or see if Google will partner on a Google Grant). For example, the Tech Museum Awards of five $50,000 prizes each year attracts many organizations with real capacity who are seeking both prestige and funding that could be significant in getting the new projects off the ground.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

This content has been driven by requests from the SEs themselves, looking for help in developing their leadership style and their organizations. Many of the SEs are senior, having been leading their organizations for longer than a decade, and many longer than that. He also announced that Microsoft (and I think Yahoo!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2007

It was very interesting, hearing a blend of corporate positioning from Microsoft and Google combined with real interest in social issues. The questions from the audience were great, and it was one of the better panels I've been on (thanks to good prep work from the Microsoft team that organized the panel, especially Jane Meseck).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India. As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Change will happen when the organized blind sue Amazon or Amazon's partners, if they calculate that the cost of complying will be less than the cost of not complying. I've found the publishing industry (and Google for that matter) to be willing to do socially responsible things voluntarily, because it's the right thing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2007

Their real challenges, not the ones they talk about when they are selling their organization! Closing Plenary Speech by Larry Brilliant Larry Brilliant did a great job inspiring us with a speech I've never heard him give before, because I've only heard him speak post-Google about Google.org. The second was all about story-telling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

I was able to personally thank senior executives at organizations such as Google, IBM and Human Rights Watch for their support of our work. I met a technology leader who was completely excited about a new product she is launching to help both disabled children and non-disabled children together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

On behalf of our nonprofit organization, Benetech, and the thousands of similarly situated social enterprises in the United States, we are writing to support this rejection. It should be noted that Google has more than five million instances of websites using the phrase “social enterprise.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. With a seed grant from the Knight Foundation, we set out to find the answers to these questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. Google itself, he said, does not have a spotless record.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

So, let's start with the granddaddy group, Ashoka, beloved of Google (quotes from Google on their web page), Skoll and so on. Of course, one of my critiques of Edwards' work is that he ignores evidence that doesn't agree with his arguments. Where are the Ashoka fellows?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. For the more senior social entrepreneurs, we can travel because we have leaders and teams that are usually better than we are at running the organizations we head and/or have founded. Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone.

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