Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. I had never heard of it.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were one of the foundation professionals who joined us this year in Nashville, you are hopefully well into your planning for how to put some of what you learned to use; I’m also hoping you enjoy this little refresher on what I consider to be some of the finer takeaways from our foundations track. Moral of the story?

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

This doesn’t have to be an elaborate night event with food and drinks (although that is definitely an option). A group of generous donors did just that for the Testicular Cancer Foundation, matching $125,000. Encourage your own supporters to share the event with their friends and family. For a low-key event, make it a lunch and learn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

It's definitely a better option than having football on, don't you think? The winner will be announced on CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute which airs Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving) 9 PM ET/PT on CNN. Even if you don't get a chance to vote, you can still watch the show on Thanksgiving. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

Later, Michael Hoffman , who was in the audience, introduced me to his friends at “ The Calling &# and they suggested I write a guest post about anything I’m passionate about! So, here it is … Last summer, at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp, Chip Conley was the keynote speaker.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

An example is the nonprofit Hoshyar Foundation ’s beautiful presentation about educating girls in Pakistan that went viral and got 2,000 to 5,000 hits per day. This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket. It’s definitely worth checking out!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The Mozilla Foundation supposedly has been working on an integrated email/calendar/contacts system, but they are spinning off Thunderbird , and Sunbird (the calendaring app) is coming along slowly. And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. coming out in October.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Image four: Trag Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I do agree, fundamentally, with the four freedoms laid out by the Free Software Foundation : The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So let’s jump right in. Thanks for having me.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Jan 13 - 15.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

This helps us avoid having averages skewed by a single participant, something I wish Spotify had done with my musical listening habits… Year-End Hits This was a tough-ish year for nonprofits hoping to see substantial year-end growth over 2021. even as overall investments grew. And that’s a wrap! And that’s a… lot!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. So that's sort of our broad education work. Our final program area is enterprise development.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. Soundboards - definitely not necessary. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I listened to music to get into a meditative state. was to raise money for the Sharing Foundation to send 53 Cambodian Youngsters to school by covering the cost of their uniforms ($10 per child or $530). I did this by adding a match - I'd donate $10 for each year if the Sharing Foundation's Cause reached $25,000 - which it did.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 5, 2016

The causal relationship between IT usage and capacity building correlates to the definition of capacity building – “the ability of nonprofit organizations to fulfill their missions in an effective manner” DeVita and Fleming (2001). Nonprofits can build their brand by blanketing the most viewed SMS.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not very often that we take a very scientific view of the philanthropy world, but Jen is definitely leading the charge on that. And the very foundation of philanthropic psychology is that it explores how we can love people in the same way that we love ourselves. We can have the prettiest of things, of the prettiest music.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

There’s definitely room for an open source effort, but it needs to match the realities of the nonprofit world: most nonprofits don’t have the benefit of in-house techies, most don’t like their data out on the web, and most can’t afford thousands of dollars or hours. So what are all the others doing?

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are the foundation of the learning process. Do you remember that old song about the music going in one end of the trumpet and then going round and round ‘til it comes…… Is Your Organization Moving Towards a Skills Gap Crisis? How to safeguard your users’ learning experience.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And so these are my definitions. These are just broad definitions. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. But you should document that organizational basic foundation structure for your database. So that’s how I define campaigns and funds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. They say: Published research results and ideas are the foundation for future progress in science and medicine.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So in format for today, part of this is going to be educational, going to hopefully learn some things you haven’t learned before, and part of it’s definitely going to be strategic. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. It meant so much I cried.

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