Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

I had the honor of attending CGI 2013 where I announced Benetech’s latest Commitment to Action. I’ve just had the chance to reflect on how cool CGI 2013 and some of the ideas I’m still processing! Just have to find some time and money to tackle them! Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. First Place Video. Please visit the site to view this video). Without further ado. Flickr Pro.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Video has the power to educate, inspire, and move people to action. If you or your organization produces creative, impactful videos, we think you deserve some recognition for the work you’re doing – and maybe even some incredible prizes. The DoGooder Video Awards are taking submissions starting March 4, 2013.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Whew, what an NTC!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? Do you want your organization to be recognized for making great videos and maybe win some incredible prizes? Organizations are more video savvy than ever.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. What We Learned at NTEN''s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Big Duck NYC. Whew, what an NTC!

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

Major congratulations to Jamie Biggar of Leadnow ( www.leadnow.ca ) for winning the 2013 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact on online advocacy and fundraising. Biggar receives a cash award of $1,000, and Care2 will donate an additional $1,000 to his favorite charity. Below is a brief video shown at the awards luncheon.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Aaron Bramley Lights.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example. Here are a few ways you can get more involved if you're interested: Watch one of three short videos about the important work the winners are pursuing. Nominations for the 2013 Grinnell Prize are open through November 5 th.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2013

Whether he’s under a bridge in New Mexico or speaking with residents in a tent city in Michigan, Mark is using his smartphone to check in, to tweet a person’s story, or to post a raw video on his website. I met Mark Horvath, winner of the 2013 NTC Rob Stuart Memorial Award , at NTC in 2010.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? Do you want your organization to be recognized for making great videos and maybe win some incredible prizes? Organizations are more video savvy than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

The annual awards luncheon is always one of my favorites and this year was a little bittersweet. The Life Time Achievement award went to Rob Stuart, the godfather of the NpTech movement , who sadly passed away in October. After a wonderful video tribute, she said, “Thanks NTEN, you have my back!”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Some of the most impressive ones include: Blue Drop Awards 2013 - Best Non-Profit Websites. The Webby Awards is sort of the Academy Awards for web design. It is replete with celebrity awards for people like actor Kevin Spacey, musician David Bowie, Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf, and Arianna Huffington.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. Please visit the site to view this video). The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

December 23, 1921 – June 23, 2013. He started his own blog, although short-lived, called “ My Name Is Earl ” Here a series of videos of the conversations we had about learning how to blog. Two weeks ago, I got to share with him the news that my second book, made the finals of the Terry McAdam award. Love Never Dies.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Check out our new website featuring a video of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote speech in San Francisco, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned, and here’s our schedule of upcoming events: Toronto, Ontario – June 26. Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA. Austin, TX – October 23.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Dennis McCarthy gave us a sneak peak of the 2013 online benchmark report last year , who will make an appearance this year? The doGooder Awards. The doGooder awards sponsored by see3 and YouTube presented at NTC celebrates the best in cause video over the course of the year. The Breakout Sessions. Year-Long Learning.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. Check out this wicked explainer video. Portland, OR: Mini Sessions from Locals Who Presented at 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Not sure what a Social Media Surgery is?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011. By using this hierarchal setup, you will be able to keep track of all the grants that were awarded to your nonprofit by the XYZ Foundation, and you can keep track of each individual grant simultaneously. The QuickBooks "Customer/Jobs" Utility.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

These individuals, recipients of the annual NTEN Award , are the people working hard to move NTEN''s mission forward from within the community: always ready to share a case study, idea, or contact. While we''re excited to present this award annually to a single individual, we know that a successful community is much more than than one person.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Here they are, the recipients of the Leading Change Award, the Campaign of the Year Award, and the Technology Impact Award. The Leading Change Award recognizes an outstanding individual whose leadership has made a significant contribution to positively change their organization, their community, and the sector.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Time for Nonprofit and Charity Videos. They're looking for newer videos created no earlier than January 1, 2012.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. Kyle is only 30 years old but has done quite a lot already in his career. Much of what it does is noncommercial.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. The Internet of Things is one of those items on my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. See the CNET video on this new technology for good here. All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

It's easy to see why Twitter wanted a foothold in the video messaging game — dynamic storytelling apps like Instagram and Cinemagram. Twitter recently launched its nifty video-looping service earlier this year in. — Tenovus (@tenovuscancer) January 29, 2013. — Dogs Trust (@DogsTrust) January 25, 2013.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. NPTech Contests and Awards. DoGooder Video Award Winners. This 25 th.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The Baby Steps Video Competition makes one big statement… that engaging with a child in the first five years of life, regardless of the activity, is the single most important step parents, care providers and educators can take to helping that child succeed. Producing a Compelling Story: Video Production , Thursday, January 9, 11 a.m.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Social Media: You''re Probably Doing It Wrong" THURSDAY, MAY 9TH, 2013 at 2PM ET In this webinar you''ll learn: How to build a multichannel campaign calendar to leverage social media with other online communications and outreach. REGISTER NOW and attend this FREE Expert Webinar on THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 at 2PM ET.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) billion in 2013. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2017

4% from 2013-2014. If there’s no budget for an event, each department could record a video message about why volunteers are valuable. Consolidate the messages, and play the video during a routine volunteer meeting. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , volunteer rates have been declining over the past decade.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

We took time as a group to remember the irreplaceable Bob Russell, we cheered for all of the other award winners , and we laughed and cried watching the finalists for the DoGooder Video Awards. Guts and vulnerability With all of that generosity on display, we’d have to be robots not to show a little emotion.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2015

Everyone had a favorite celebrity Ice Bucket Challenge video. But the video that left the most lasting impression on me was the raw truth of the video by Anthony Carbajal , the winner of the 2014 Cash, Sweat and Tears Award. I cannot adequately express what this video means and how it affects the viewer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. That was a significant increase from 2013 and nearly as many emails that I received on December 31st. That was slightly down from 2013. About 6 faux forwards this year which was more than 2013. My multichannel award goes to The Nature Conservancy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. The Humane Society of the United States gets the award for Best-Email-That-Looked-Like-The-CEO-Sent-It-From-An-iPhone message. Did You Know?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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