Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. In the popular online acronym, IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You can centralize your team’s documents, images, videos, and other resources into one accessible location. Dropbox Sign Platform overview: Nonprofits may need to share important documents and agreements, such as employment contracts or conflict of interest policies. This includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Meet, and more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Secure Digital (SD) cards are removable flash storage memory cards that most smartphones and digital cameras use to increase the storage capacity. They hold our photos, music, videos and apps. What if you need to erase one? No problem. Here’s how. Removable Flash Storage (SD Cards). They weigh just half a gram.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I need to figure out a good network configuration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2016

Are you a charity that offers free music education to inner city kids? One YPB member sourced free digital advertising for us with two major publications worth over $10,000. In addition to being on top of the latest social media trends, basic document production needs to be different. Sourcing Generous Donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.) I am going to have to stop using Chrome. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 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

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. A digital member badge that can be shared on social media. Certificates of appreciation (digital). Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. These exist already! Welcome packet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Here’s the inside scoop on Bryan Rahija, POGO’s blog editor and self proclaimed jack-of-all-digital-trades… EG for CC: What’s your elevator pitch about what POGO does? BR for POGO: More or less a jack-of-all-digital-trades? EG for CC: How do you describe your role at the organization to friends at parties?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. If pretty much all I did was documents, email and the web, like many people, I wouldn’t be having these issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Check out the website. How busy is it? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 Be Helpful.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. This summit will gather the world’s most dynamic and high level executives operating in digital strategy. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

It is well documented that most jobs in museums pay poorly. I work in museums doing collection database management, digitization, DAMS stuff, and more. For what it’s worth I think the subtext of this question is great. Gainful, full time museum employment is also notoriously difficult and competitive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07 That part looks very interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

You could even get creative with documentation--photos instead of text, music instead of words--but it's limiting. use digital interfaces. Many museum projects are on long enough leads that this is a good time to seriously investigate digital comment interfaces that incorporate automatic translation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader. Here's how. suggested by Mike Gifford on Linkedin.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And with digital natives?—?aka, A couple of reasons: It’s rhythmic, almost musical. click on this link, navigate to a sub-page, download a document, fill out a form, etc. And the Curse of Knowledge explains why so few organizations bother testing their digital content. a 12% increase over the previous year. aka, Gen Z?—?beginning

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Paul captured this moment brilliantly in text and digital stills here of David Wilcox and Nick Boot h video blogging each other. Music in video: Wonder Drums by porchcat Click here to view the video. So, the question isn't should we put down our social media tools and have a conversation?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. Even though the documents online explains it well, people still use the T() and the DB_QUERY() functions incorrectly. at 4:26 pm Dave Keays wrote: Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP. Be Helpful.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But what does moving your board meetings to the digital space entail? Tips for Hosting Engaging Digital Board Meetings. Going digital doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice board member engagement. Or, perhaps you’re still contemplating if digital meetings are even right for your team. The Basics of Virtual Board Meetings.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. Here are this year’s big winners in our world of digital impact. For us, it was no different!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

The Vega Awards highlight the vital role that digital pioneers play in the always-changing digital landscape. 2022 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three) Gold – Digital Branded Content Zero to Three works to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. We’re glad to share some exciting news!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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