Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

Gerry was one of the earliest computer software attorneys, and even wrote one of the first books on the subject. I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. And stuck was the operative word: I stayed in that role for seven years.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Face recognition has been used by law enforcement as a way of identity verification during traffic stops or as a way to find a perpetrator. While this big tech might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, face recognition has been readily adopted into the technology we use every day. Staying Ahead of the Curve.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. I think this is fair to say we have leading minds on both sides of the issue.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land. Expect this type of tracking to become more widely available as a feature in marketing software.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before. Read it here.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

And, like for-profit companies, you can’t afford to ignore data privacy and protection laws – such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For these reasons, using association management software (AMS) like Nimble AMS , built on the Salesforce platform , offers many advantages.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Face recognition has been used by law enforcement as a way of identity verification during traffic stops or as a way to find a perpetrator. While this big tech might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, face recognition has been readily adopted into the technology we use every day. Staying Ahead of the Curve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

Forcing tech companies to weaken their products through compelling the creation of backdoors would be a massive step backwards. What laws they violate. And Silicon Valley understands it as such a moment for the tech industry generally. It is now incumbent on Silicon Valley to remedy this situation. Who they love. Every secret.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Benetech was founded to be a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit dedicated to creating social change at scale.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? The April 2015 TechSoup Green Tech Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Check out our Green Technology Page. Official Rules.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? The April 2015 TechSoup Green Tech Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Check out our Green Technology Page. Official Rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech is a tech social enterprise. While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques. His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

For example, advocating for a law change may require the work of multiple governmental bodies, sign off by various elected officials, and also changing public perception — each of which could be an advocacy campaign in its own right. What can you learn from campaigns of the past? Send the right opportunities to the right people.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. million, based on what they would have paid for retail equivalent products (including the software). software in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2008

Tech Luminaries Address Singularity Gordon Moore is one of the fathers of Silicon Valley, and has had wide-reaching impacts. And my personal favorite is that his foundation gave the initial funding that led to our extremely cool Miradi software for environmental project management.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

The Power of Tech in Advocacy & Organizing 14NTC: We came, we tweeted, we played with Legos. Session Presentations Blog Posts “Royals” and Working at a Nonprofit (#14NTC) , Jessica Dickinson Goodman CommunityOS Software for Nonprofits at The Nonprofit Technology Conference! And then we took a long nap! 14ntc Community NTC press'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. What monitoring strategies will be used, whether filtering software, scanning emails, or scanning proxy server logs for inappropriate websites. If software installation is required for a user’s. connected to the network.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Previously, as associate general counsel at Walmart Stores, she managed privacy law and compliance for domestic and international ecommerce, marketing, social media, and mobile initiatives. Alexandra graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law and has an undergraduate theater degree from Northwestern University. Jacob earned his J.D.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. The moderator was Stephan Sonnenberg , Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Eligibility.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

So today's Articulating Tech: How to Win Friends and Influence Luddites turned out to be a pretty fitting followup session for that discussion. Campbell said he once worked at a law firm where the attorneys didn't want a document management system, even though they needed one. Click here to continue reading this post.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

My 14-year-old son Jimmy had installed some new software, against my express wishes to not install random software from the Internet (still a good idea!). Jimmy explained it wasn’t software from the Internet; he had gotten it from his friend Chris who lived two doors down from us. I had never heard of it. And, the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Now, more than two decades later, social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement and Benetech has become the “go to” nonprofit software company in the heart of Silicon Valley. copyright law. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2014

I had no idea what the real risk here is so I asked Sam Chenkin of Tech Impact about whether or not this is a big deal. Besides the obvious ethical concerns of failing to protect privileged information, HIPAA is federal law and your organization’s professional responsibility – there is no excuse. Microsoft Windows.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. Nonprofit Tech for Good offers a Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising that takes an honest approach to social media. MoreWeb.org.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

c) TechSoup should stick to its knitting of being an opinion-free provider of donated and low-cost software and hardware and not offer opinions on social and political issues. tax law that cleared the way for this service — ultimately reducing costs, complexity, and duplication of efforts for both grantmakers and their global grantees.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. Read more about Free Graphics Software and Images.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

and makes no representation or warranty that the Sweepstakes is in compliance with your local law. It is your sole responsibility to review local laws to determine whether the Sweepstakes is lawful in your country. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Taken at face value, CitySoft certainly doesn’t violate the letter of the law, since you can get the source code if you buy their product, but their source code is unavailable otherwise, it sort of violates the spirit of open source.) 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Will this advertising platform alienate users?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. Our Local Impact Map. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. TechSoup offers a low-cost npOffice Office 365 Assessment from our cloud partner, Tech Impact.

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