Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. Please join us in realizing this “radical” future!

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And so I’m kind of a radio producer and audio nerd, and I just thought it would be amazing to bring in sounds from the natural environment to accompany her words. What audio are we bringing in to keep this from the perspective of the black people we’re profiling? So I thought it was powerful audio to use.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. We think Watchitoo.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). national experience. In our conversation, I got the impression that the Copyright Office is getting ready in case Chafee is revisited.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Top feature: Donorbox’s UltraSwift Checkout feature allows donors to quickly complete payments in just a few clicks, promoting higher conversion rates.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Saturday, June 1 is the National Day of Civic Hacking and Net2 organizers in Honolulu, Boston and New Haven are jumping into the fray! Find your closest NetSquared group and join the conversation today! Boston, MA: National Day of Civic Hacking - RHoK Boston. Bored this weekend? Social Media September is coming! Event Reports.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2019

Sure, you could pay for some audio books — but there are also a wealth of podcasts that are just as, if not more interesting than said books. The sgENGAGE Podcast brings together leaders and practitioners from across the entire social good community for wide-ranging conversations on trends, big ideas and best practices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. I’ve been to national meetings in the U.S. The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Naeema Zarif started us off with an energizer that involved our respective countries National Anthems. The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

During this phase: Check audio to make sure speakers sound loud and clear. If multiple people are speaking in the same session, ensure they all wear headphones to prevent audio feedback. Hashtags serve as a great way to encourage continued conversation online. Check lighting to make sure speakers’ faces are well lit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. Taking that process from individual level and extrapolating to national level." " Interesting, this idea came from impromptu conversation with Will Richardson. Photos of the slides.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

However, based on my conversations and experiences with many museum professionals, my guess is that many of you are aware of the issue, may think it’s worth discussing, but have limited knowledge about the core issues surrounding bilingual interpretation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so). If not, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

I designed and facilitated “ A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Nonprofits in a Networked World ” at the SXSWi Interactive over the weekend as an opportunity to experiment with some of these ideas. As many of you know, I’m comfortable with public learning, so using this post to share what I learned.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The ability to have conversations with members and supporters is the most exhilarating part of the new media landscape for advocacy groups such as ours. Today, we can keep the intimacy and personal touch of those missives, but we use audio and video to literally give a "voice" to our clients and our supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

" for the National eXtension Institiative I had some deja vu. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. Today, I did a Webinar called " 10 Steps To Extension 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Hybrid meetings are familiar for many nonprofits, particularly larger international nonprofits with many country offices or national networks with affiliate office locations. In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. That's one key piece.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

And when individual museums invest in projects, such as exhibits, they tend to put a lot of their resources into proven model (gallery, furniture, labels, marketing, audio guides, associated programs), and count on them succeeding. In a stable environment, that worked pretty well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot. As a promotion for its new show, Genius , the National Geographic Channel has created an Albert Einstein bot for Facebook Messenger. Obviously, this is a custom programmed Facebook Messenger Bot designed for a conversational experience. Engage and Educate.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

What I did for them when they finally decided to do it is pull the audio from it and they can make that a podcast and they put it on their website. I was ready, ready with the conversation. When you talk endlessly, people either do two things, they zone you out, okay, or they end the conversation before you have the opportunity to ask.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Our conversation began with Marsha describing how Dining for Women works. and get a sense of Dining for Women as a national organization. Over the past three years, the organization has grown and added a bunch of exciting new programs, so I asked her back to the Big Vision Podcast to talk about them.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The eye images were posted to the site, and the incantations were layered over the top of each other in an ever-growing audio file. Conversely, the story combined with the artifacts succeeded in drawing in a wide audience of players who did not have any prior experience of ARGs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Entrepreneurship is one of the most significant contributors to a nation’s prosperity.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 Some states, such as Colorado, have started official employee-ownership commissions and dedicated new funding to support business conversion to employee-owned cooperatives or ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. You know, we're just constantly running.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

It is a completely different conversation. That ability to stand in awe and reverence for what a precious gift it is, just to be alive, and just to share this planet with so many other beautiful sister and brother species and nations and neighborhoods. You can listen to the audio from this interview on the Big Vision Podcast.

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