Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

. - This is an independent, community-nominated, community-voted event created in 2012 that aims to publicly recognize the excellent individuals and organizations that have maximized the capabilities of Drupal open source content management system. The best advocacy website is Global Zero developed by Advomatic & Free Range.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Conversations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

First up, a round of applause for the winner of the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. Eli van der Giessen , NetSquared Global Community Manager, TechSoup Global.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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) Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of Techsoup Global , it's both. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag." Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. It was a bit tough catching up on the acronyms but the Global Impact Investing Network (GINN) has taken up a chunk of the work. The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" New Realisties in Online Advocacy " tagged and Jason from Democracy in Action. Global NpTech. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. I know there is a similar cooperative in the Bay Area called Tech Underground. Are there others? What's Hiafux ?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals. Moreover, the global nature of Black SiS’ operations meant time zones became an issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Different regions around the global have a very different level of access than those in North America or Western Europe.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 2001, we focus on serving the nonprofit sector and provide technology consulting, strategic assessments, print and web design services and open-source CMS implementation. Confluence is a technology and design company, located in Washington DC and Los Angeles. The platform includes a robust, integrated email marketing tool.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Keisha Taylor is TechSoup Global's senior manager for business planning and research for our Global Data Services work. She also likes the big data for good work coming out of the UN Global Pulse initiative. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. The UN Global Pulse initiative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. Burma has seen dramatic reforms and there is now a momentous opportunity to strengthen current advocacy and prepare for future justice measures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. I hope she's right.

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