Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My 14-year-old son Jimmy had installed some new software, against my express wishes to not install random software from the Internet (still a good idea!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2013

As of May 2012, 20% of web traffic in the United States and Canada occurs on a mobile device through a mobile browser (such as m.bing.com ) or a mobile app (such as NPR Music ). Priority #3: Purchase a smartphone for your communications and development staff! The Mobile Web Will Rule by 2014. from tablets.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Internet behemoth unveiled the Now on Tap feature that cuts down on the amount of time you need to find something on your phone from minutes to mere seconds. He also showed his generous side by bringing Internet technologies to developing countries and helping provide educational opportunities for at-risk kids.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2020

Roughly one in five Americans have abandoned broadband Internet altogether and now exclusively use their mobile device. Cloud computing is the delivery of server data, software, databases, and intelligence over the Internet or “the cloud”. Notably, this isn’t just a trend for younger generations. Cloud Computing.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

After you’ve considered your foundation’s readiness and decided this approach makes sense, here are some practical, actionable ideas for developing participatory grantmaking in your funding institution. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. I found that MediaMonkey , a free music organizer/player, sync tool that I had used with an older MP3 player, will sync my tunes with the Pre. Calendar: Google Calendar Sync.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Facebook called it the “ Open Graph ” and the pr people called “A revolution to the whole meaning of listening to music together or family T.V.” ” You can read more about how it works from the Facebook developer notes. Recently, some apps have been using the OpenGraph in innovate ways. with their Facebook friends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go. It’s based on Mozilla Firefox, and apparently the developers of Flock contribute a fair bit back to the Firefox codebase. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. That’s really all it is – there isn’t anything fancy about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. Why do we nptechies care? More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

corrupt and unhealthy trash collection, and the poverty it perpetuates, in many developing countries. developing countries. problem with emotional music, moody colors and images, and an overall. And of course a fun music track keeps you watching. #4 The music is a fantastic hook and. people in the developing world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They are on this list because I think they are great, because they have undergone a lot of change or development this year, or because they are game-changing. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music. From a developers prospective, Vista is much better than OS 10 – Microsoft even gives away basic development tools like asp.net and visual studio on their website. He should understand that the same thing is true for iPhones.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

It’s a conference that is an event of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet. I’ve never been – online politics has never really been my focus. But I’m quite looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to talking about free and open source software to this audience. {

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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. Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? Photos of the slides. " Oh no. I thought to myself.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I’m really psyched about the Nonprofit Development Summit , happening here, in my (current) fair city, Oakland (I love it that I don’t have to travel so much anymore.) Funny thing: it’s happening the same week as the Convio Summit , and the Blackbaud Conference. It might be interesting. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Read an interview of an Android developer. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

business development and marketing professional who has worked with. As part of the marketing campaign for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial , it also functioned as a professional development program in arts administration. work created from the Internet with the goal of making classical art forms more relevant. Ryan Biega is a.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Michele Martin talks about developing a personal learning plan. I read her blog for great tips on professional development and technology. { It’s a great, thoughtful post. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. 1 trackback } links for 2008-07-30 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Last year’s winner was Barry Warsaw, lead developer of the awesome Mailman mailing list manager. The competition, judged by a panel of national leaders in public interest computing, is now entering its third year. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008. Ruby Sinreich is a new phenomenon ! You go girl!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 12, 2008

I’ll be on hiatus for about another week, and will have some long awaited new FOSS tools, as well as other posts that have been brewing for a while. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop). This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. This is also an ongoing process. Intermediation. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 The only thing that will be left is games. I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. Here in the U.S., Here are the three winners in that category.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. LAMS – not as much an LMS as a curriculum development tool. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

In my country, there still are no good hosting companies, though our internet speed and ping inside the whole country, is better than the most of europe, that’s why I use e-insites. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 2 Brian 11.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

1 trackback } Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin - Affordable Web Developer - Just another WordPress weblog on Affordable open source web development. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin - Affordable Web Developer - Just another WordPress weblog on Affordable open source web development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol. That is, basically, the addressing system computers and routers and such use to direct traffic around a local network, and the internet. Sometimes, I’ll talk about technologies I think are just cool, and useful, and, well geeky, ’cause I can’t help being a geek.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

So I’m polishing off my PHP skills, and we’ll see where that leads. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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