Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! A database!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. . Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. A guy named Peter Deitz had an amazing idea. He called this Social Actions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

To reference earlier points in the hype curve, xAPI is what the ACCME should be using to analyze the aggregate educational value of CME activities. Cutting back on the administrative headache of tracking credits for certificants is an imperative for the eLearning industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

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. Share Your Stories and Change the World " is accepting submissions until February 7th.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. What's Changing?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. But widgets are just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. Steve Rubel has an interesting post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? ll aggregate all the data together. Jeremiah Owyang to the rescue with this excellent post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. Social Housing explores social media. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Allan Benamer put together an NpTech version of Digg, using open source software called Pligg combined with a Yahoo Pipe of the Nptech feed.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2017

As for individual giving, there is data, but it is rarely real-time and granular enough to see how giving changes throughout the year. Open-Source Insights and Dataset. Donation Insights uses Mastercard's anonymized and aggregated transaction data to offer a report and a dataset.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

It’s a change of pace for the monthly nonprofit technology news to lead with non-electronic technology, but what can I do? The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

and change things as needed. create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. You can even subscribe to the recent changes and get them sent directly to your email inbox or to a feed reader like Google Reader. I like Wik.is

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Certainly, people seemed to appreciate access to the platform apps that began changing their world. Although these tools of alternative financing have some promise, the potential of platform cooperatives to fundamentally change worker conditions in the gig economy will never be well realized within the extant capitalist economy.

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