Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration. Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding Sometimes called "Web 2.0"

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

CiviCRM is an open-source nonprofit-focused CRM system with powerful features for campaigns, fundraising, event planning, contact management, and case management. They were also able to move data from multiple systems into one centralized solution. Project Management. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action. Spanish-Language Products Available at TechSoup: read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

I met Lina Srivastava at SXSW last month and I found her clarifying commentary on the " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social good/systemic change? Does your organization have access to the technology tools and skills as well as the capacity to collaborate beyond your organization's firewall?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

It allowed a system of communications that shaped the business world. But I had to realize that introducing social media as a tool for better collaboration, either across an organization or with outside stakeholders needs to be facilitated. Changes in Business and the Workplace. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

Mapping systems are helping pinpoint areas that are hardest hit and mobilize aid. Wikis, social networks, and Twitter feeds are letting stakeholders and actors talk virtually to coordinate their response. Tags: Influence Collaboration Social Media. Organizations are using social media to raise more money faster than ever before.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible. By Stuart Holland, Sr.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

This may be you, or a bit of you; I'm often collaborating with folks, including other staff here at Database Designs, who slice up the tool pie differently. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. In a time when more and more nonprofits are blurring the line between local and global, I think that services like WWL can make a huge difference in how we communicate and collaborate.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Their wiki states that CRM systems until now have borne the full burden of relating with customers. Any system that will allow particpation of both vendors and customers (or donors and fundraisers, or politicians and supporters.) But what does a VRM/CRM collaboration look like? We are all both customers and vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

The vision is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborative, share knowledge, and build alliances. In this way, permaculture has become both a design system and a loosely defined philosophy or lifestyle ethic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start. Guiding volunteers to success is equally critical. Fear of Failure vs. Fear of the Unknown.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking. Of course, I have crazy ideas about a zagats guide to nonprofit blogs, a collaborative effort built on a wiki or elsewhere.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Here is a perfect application for a wiki. A wiki is a website that allows a community of users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing. We've been finding that the wiki is a perfect place to plant organizational knowledge. There are a number of wiki tools around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

" I've covered some aspects of this in my screencast and workshop on " Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing For Nonprofits." " Certainly tagging as a cure to information load and an easy way to share information for resource strapped nonprofits that afford fancy enterprise KM systems. " "Web 2.0

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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. "To You can read more about their work here [link].

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Don't want tickets/case management, don't want wikis, don't want blogs, don't want "here's what I'm eating for lunch" status updates - need to be able to to tailor interface to only what we need/want.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Browse through this list of resources about user-generated content in an educational context from the Horizon Project Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We've also started using a wiki for a volunteer research project, and we'll probably expand our use of wikis in the future. The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about?

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Don't want tickets/case management, don't want wikis, don't want blogs, don't want "here's what I'm eating for lunch" status updates - need to be able to to tailor interface to only what we need/want.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.  s go and ???tweet???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. But there isn't much about the demographics of who is using wikis, particularly their age.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

It's very useful to step back and take a look at what the non-profits we work with have been trying to accomplish with their information systems. Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. What are the challenges these groups are facing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

tools take collaboration and information sharing to a whole new level, the non-profits I work with have nuts and bolts Information Systems issues that are, and should be high priorities. " I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring. Wikis or Writely can certainly be more efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project. Do you have advice?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. Technology for Good Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. Can you tell me more about your work with wikis and nonprofits? How have nonprofits you're working with used wikis?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

One of the things that struck me was that unlike my generation, Gen X, where a room full of "do-gooders" would have all been people majoring in education, sociology and other social sciences, many of these students were majoring or interested in engineering, product design, symbolic systems and business.

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