Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Today, we're joining what is probably the largest online protest in history , by blacking out significant portions of the Benetech website, as well as our Martus and HRDAG human rights websites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody. We share the goal of bringing more books to American adults, but the vast Open Library vision inspired us to go even further.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.” In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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