Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 28, 2006

It's good news for bloggers: On Friday a California Court of Appeals ruled the bloggers are entitled to the same protections as journalists in traditional media when it comes to being required to reveal confidential sources. Tags: blogging , legal Something else that can make us all breath easier.

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EveryAction

MARCH 14, 2016

Like many of you, we're just a week away from heading to sunny California for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) , one our favorites, and one of the best nonprofit conferences of the year. Tag along on our #16NTC adventures by following us on Twitter at @EveryActionHQ. Hope to see you in San Jose!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2010

Special Olympics of Northern California. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Marketing Mobile Technology Mobile Websites. It becomes immediately clear that the design principles and purpose of nonprofit mobile websites are quite different from desktop sites. National Public Radio. m.npr.org. sonc.mobi. World Wildlife Fund. www.wwf.mobi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Tags: crowdsourcing. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to a survey by the University of California at Santa Cruz , the number of working African American business owners fell more than 40% during the pandemic—a much steeper drop than other racial groups. Black-owned businesses often face unique challenges and they’ve also been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Called a friend at a PC, and they got the same misroute to 116 Sheridan Avenue, San Francisco, California 94129. Tags: BIB10 Internet Archive Kahle misroute Google Dirty tricks. Walked up, and they said that the Archive had moved out a couple of months ago. That works!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

No, this is not a description of Benetech’s Palo Alto, California headquarters. Tags: Ann Harrison HRDAG human rights Smithsonian Patrick Ball Guatemala. Inside naked light bulbs reveal bare cinder-block walls, stained concrete floors, desks and filing cabinets. Above all there is the musty odor of decaying paper.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently announced partnerships with The University of Chicago Press, the University of California Press and New York University Press, where they will be sending digital files of their books to Bookshare to be made available to people with print disabilities. Tags: Benetech Press Bookshare UC.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN will moderate a panel with Heidi Hess of Children's Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation. Tags: TechSoup. CARE2 is holding a webinar on strategies for successfully welcoming, cultivating, and converting new leads into donors. What: While They're Hot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

The “superfriends” on stage at OMCA’s California Futures at the Massive Reopening Celebration. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2009

Tags: Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Well there's a good description of it here and a detailed FAQ here. Suffice to say, you won't be seeing the usual PowerPoint or formal presentations, but instead the sessions and topics are proposed and chosen by the users.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Do Small Nonprofits in California Use Technology Successfully? :: PNNOnline ::: "Do Small Nonprofits in California Use Technology Successfully? Tags: NPtech.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California. There’s more potential to engage the viewer with a live demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I first met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. Tags: Free Agent. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. Tags: print disabled print disabilities Kanter Wiley Flatworld copyright OERs Creative Commons Schwarzenegger Plotkin CC Bookshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

NetSquared is pleased to announce a new Partner Challenge with University of California at Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. Select “HRC-UCB&# from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form. Tags: challenge mobile netsquared. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The story in the San Francisco Chronicle says the new gift cards are available in Safeway and Vons supermarkets in California in denominations of $25 and $30." Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is a California-based company and is the fifth largest privately owned technology company in the world. Tags: GreenTech Software. Jack Dangermond founded ESRI 40 years ago and still runs the company with his wife Laura.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law. California is finalizing a law that will mandate a ‘kill switch’ be included on all new smartphones. ” Of course, California is home to one out of eight people in the U.S. None-the-less, as California goes, so goes the nation – again.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

If your organization is a nonprofit based in California, you may be eligible for additional discounts on VoIP services through the California Teleconnect Fund. Eligible for additional 50% savings on monthly rates with California Teleconnect Fund (CTF)? Yes, for certain California nonprofits. Custom tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Representatives from Preschool California Share Their Experiment Insights. LAUP also discovered that they by providing engaging content on Facebook other super fans will self-identify. PreSchool California. PreSchool California : Did an experiment using Twitter as a way to connect with journalists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

It has been a year since I’ve relocated to the Bay Area in California. Tags: Conferences Promotions Bootcamp craigslist. The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Annual Nonprofit Bootcamp practically in my backyard.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

As we mentioned on the blog, TechSoup's online community staffers along with expert consultants presented at the NSAC (National Sexual Assault Conference) hosted by CALCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault). Tags: Accessible Technology News Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

After several days of training in Chennai and through Skype with me in California and the Worth Trust team in Chennai they started off with 30 books a month. Tags: blind Worth Trust Bookshare Lavelle. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Tab on the Special Olympics of Northern California Facebook Page , if you have access to and a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Tags: Facebook Twitter YouTube. It will also allow you to create super, duper fancy Facebook Tabs, such as the “Get Involved!&# icons [ Example: World Wildlife Fund ].

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

It’s also essential to revisit your privacy policy each time a significant new privacy law goes into effect where you operate, such as the CCPA in California. Here are a few things you can do: Ban third-party tracking pixels Instead, lean into first-party data sources like HubSpot for attribution.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2013

If your organization is a nonprofit based in California, you may be eligible for additional discounts on VoIP services through the California Teleconnect Fund. Eligible for additional 50% savings on monthly rates with California Teleconnect Fund (CTF)? Yes, for certain California nonprofits. Custom tagging.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

#4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia). Stay on topic!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2010

Tags: social entrepreneurs travel Priceline Social Edge hotels. Do you have an example of penny-wise, pound foolish travel ideas that backfired? * Do you have ideas for reducing your environmental impact while getting the job done? How can we make travel more effective and less wearing?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Tag @Techsoup and use #TechedUp and #17NTC. Embargo Countries): Sponsor is offering this Sweepstakes from the State of California, U.S. This is a $600 market value! Your task, should you choose to participate: 1. March 27, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2010

The book is edited by three people: Ted Hart of GreenNonprofits.org , Adrienne Capps of the University of California, Davis , and Matthew Bauer, president of BetterWorld Telecom. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Running Your Organization Telecom Services. The book includes articles by many other authors. ts.org Certi?cation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

#4Change was initially proposed by Tom Dawkins (@tomjd) in Washington DC who is joined by Todd Pitt (@zerostrategist - Washington DC), Morgan Sully (@memeshfit - Oakland, California), Natasha Judd (@tashjudd - London, England), Edward Harran (@edwardharran - Brisbane, Australia) and Vibewire (@vibewire - Sydney, Australia). Stay on topic!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

This week TechSoup staff members and expert consultants are speaking at the National Sexual Assault Conference hosted by CALCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault) National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in Hollywood, CA. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2010

You can register for the full series or individual sessions featuring the experiences of the ACLU of Northern California , Blackbaud , and Identity Woman. Tags: Social Media Communications.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

It was helmed by Mercy Corps ' Roger Burks , who I'd already chatted with about this topic, in addition to Equality California' s Jay Davis and Forum One Communications ' Michaela Guerin Hackner. A few good, meaningful stories mean more than lots of mediocre ones. If nothing else, a story should have heart; authenticity means everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Tab on the Special Olympics of Northern California Facebook Page and the numerous customized Tabs on the Facebook Page of The Humane Society of the United States were created using the Static FBML App. Tags: Facebook Online Fundraising. For example, the “Get Involved!&#

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

The threat of violence and the ensuing anxiety plagued Krystal Saldivar's freshman year at De Anza High School in Richmond, California. With her family's support, Krystal applied to study at Holden High School , an alternative school in Orinda, California. Tags: Spotlight.

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