Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. Gerry did have one other piece of critical advice: change the name. Amazingly enough, it wasn’t the publishers who fought against the treaty; the publishing industry has a long history of supporting access for the blind, as long as their interests are respected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

One of the communities that inspired this development - Planetwork has held a vision for how these emerging open standards could be used for social change. XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. There is a history of virtual gift giving. I sent a coffee gift card to Alex Steed to help ower his Millennials Changing America project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

Thanks Marshall for all the great advice, I'm going to make some changes after I post this interview. Tagging itself is going to need to change so that people feel more comfortable using multi-word tags. Mission statements can evolve organically, with each previous version available in the page history.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

People tend to give bigger gifts on Giving Tuesday, especially when that gift will help change a life and your donor is clear about how their gift will make a difference. Just after lunch: Do a Facebook Live talking about why your campaign is important and how lives will be changed. Talk about how the donor can make a difference.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. Many native groups are not eager to offer up their cultural stories and history for mash-ups on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix. Think of it as the track changes feature in word, but on the web so that anyone who has access can contribute. Change Issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The condor recovery effort is my favorite example of collective impact : organizations and individuals joining together, across sectors, to coordinate and direct their efforts toward large-scale change. On our last trip to San Diego, my daughter and I took a trip to the Natural History Museum. A puppet feeds a condor chick. It soars.”.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

First, they may want to learn some basic facts, history, and read some stories about how the organization makes an impact. Their “Water Changes Everything” video conveys, in three minutes, why people should care about their mission. Charity: Water is a nonprofit site that is admired for their compelling design and messaging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool! Qwiki :: qwiki.com. Re.vu :: re.vu. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. I added this tab so that I have a separate page that just hosts a series of specialized search engines (eBay, Amazon, Flickr) as well as my Google search history. It's flexible and easy to change as your web habits and needs change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

The title of the session was “Politics 2.0 – How social networks and new media are changing politics.&# wikipedia b. Her history is with off-line organizing and so her job is to see how we can leverage social networks and integrate web 2.0 I didn’t stay for the entire thing, but what I caught was good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool! Qwiki :: qwiki.com. Re.vu :: re.vu. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com.

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