May, 2006

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NetSquared Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm at the NetSquared Conference yesterday and today. Pretty exciting: this sort of thing would have been hard to imagine not so long ago! Our new CTO, Patrick Ball, was attending and spoke on human rights. Patrick occasionally injected his reality checks into the proceedings. I spoke on revenue models for socially motivated businesses, on a panel moderated by Vince Stehle (of Surdna Foundation) and with Clara Miller of NFF and Lee Davis of Nesst.org.

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Taking Back Mother's Day for Peace!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Michael Stein ("Internet Strategist and Author") who works with nonprofits, emailed me about a new Internet campaign Take Back Mother's Day for Peace that was recently launched by a Bay Area public grantmaking foundation, The Ploughshares Fund ( www.ploughshares.org ). (Ahem. hint, hint, hint -- this is a nice idea for Mother's Day).

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.

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The Power of APIs

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

So we just wrote a program here that really shows off the bang for the buck you get when applications provide you with an API. Microsoft Outlook, like other Office apps, has a great deal of its functionality exposed using Microsoft's ActiveX technology. And our Members Only app has a SOAP interface. So how hard can it be to write a pipe that connects the two?

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth, ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net

Have Fun - Do Good

On Tuesday, May 30th at 4pm PDT, Micki Krimmel , the Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions , will be speaking about, "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth , ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net " as part of NetSquared's remote conference. I've written about the work that Participant Productions does a couple times here before.

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Smart Mobs: Omidyar Network launches $50K team-based funding project

AFP Blog

Smart Mobs: Omidyar Network launches $50K team-based funding project : "Omidyar Network launches $50K team-based funding project Sharing Economies, Technologies of Cooperation Posted by Howard at 09:31 AM Omidyar Network continues in its effort to reinvent philanthropy as a network enterprise. The online community, Omidyar.net, experimented with community-based funding last year, which led to a rich, passionate, and contentious online discussion.

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Rescued by Nonprofit Open Source Software Man!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We thought we'd get the early bus -- we were up anyway from jetlag. Unfornately, the bus driver left us off at the wrong building. It was almost a mile or so down the road. We started walking and luckily David stopped and offered us a ride!

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. While many of these new apps are the inevitable "me too" calendar and wiki pages, a few of them, like GroupSharp , which hit her list just the other day, are beginning to demonstrate usable and flexible business functionality, the

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People are Ready for a Vision-led Movement

Have Fun - Do Good

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon. They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the gro

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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48 million Guatemalan Secret Police Documents

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On Wednesday, May 10, the Guatemalan National Police Archives Project found a bottle filled with petrol in flames on their premises. It was apparently an attempt to intimidate the project to secure and preserve the estimated 48 million police records found by the Human Rights Ombudsman's office in 2005. Benetech's Human Rights Program is helping the Ombudsman's Office in Guatemala with the Archives Project.

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Important Book on Technology in the Social Sector

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jonathan Peizer has been one of the most influential thinkers in my evolution with Benetech. Patrick Ball introduced us early in our transition to the new Benetech projects (Bookshare.org and Martus), and JP became our first funder of our Martus project through the Open Society Institute. His insights about technology in the social sector have been especially valuable.

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Route 66 Literacy Beta Users

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Route 66 Literacy began its first beta at Community Association for Rehabilitation, Inc. (C·A·R) in January, here in Palo Alto, California. C·A·R is a nonprofit organization for children and adults with developmental disabilities (mental retardation, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, autism, and other neurodevelopmental conditions causing developmental delays) and other disabilities who live the Silicon Valley area.

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Nonprofit Online News: Asking the Wrong Questions

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Asking the Wrong Questions Michael Gilbert is a fascinating observer of the application of technology to social objectives. I quite enjoyed a recent article of his looking at technocentric approaches to technology assessment. As a techie, I have to keep reminding myself of these issues!

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Cognitive Seduction (a typology of user experience pleasures)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post describes what good game designers do to "turn your brain on" or "cognitive arousal." Passionate Users Blo g has tweaked some gaming design rules to apply to NON-game experience. Which experiental pleasures does tagging give its users? Typology of Cognitive Pleasures. (in no particular order). 1. Discovery. User experience as exploration of new territory. 2.

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The Del.icio.us Lesson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Alex Barnett Blog. "From now on I???m going to call this idea the ???Del.icio.us Lesson??? This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We???re. seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even though we???

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Cleaning up the Tag Soup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

from a post by Steve Eisner who writes a blog called A Social Life Some points for me: Defines two different types of tag behavior: Consuming Taggers : People who stalk other people's tags. Prefer to use their own vocabularly. Publishing Taggers: Haven an incentive to match their audiences' vocabularies. "At the same time, the network benefits of social bookmarking depend on enough publishers agreeing upon a common vocabulary.

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Social Analysis of Tagging: How Tagging Transforms the Solitary Browsing Experience Into A Social One

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. This article will explore how tagging lets us connect with others. Rashimi also wrote another interesting essay entitled " A Cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Another nonprofit using tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Emily of Emily's World comes another example of nonprofit tagging. The organization is The Creative Coast Initiative and they appear to be using del.icio.us to organize resources to be published on their site. They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. The organization is "a public/private partnership responsible for attracting and growing brain-based businesses in Savannah.

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Great Discussion about Nonprofits and Tagging: Come on over!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. There is some interesting discussion threads taking place. Even if you're not attending in person, you may have some questions or observations to add. Some of the questions: Why some people love discovery aspect of tagging and others don't? How do we get past this debate to the point where we can set up some good learning experiments with the use of tagging for nonprofit organizations and reap some good lessons learned or practic

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Play is important

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

streetsign Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. The one thing I love about Nancy White is that she reminds me about the importance of playing and exploration -- even I don't have any time. Nonprofits don't have the time to explore and play, although it is recognized as important by some.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging - article on TechSoup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This article, " Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging " was recently updated and published on TechSoup. It morphs two different blog posts by nonprofit tagging thought leaders, Ruby Sinreich and Alexandra Samuel. These are excellent practical tips for choosing tags - either if you're doing this for your own personal information management or to use as a guide to help your organization come up with a tagging policy or at least some standard tags.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice Online Conference. The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds.

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Why do some people love the discovery aspect of tagging and others don't?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Okay, when we talk about the "why" of tagging - we use two words - findability and discovery. I love the way Marnie Webb phrased it in this comment. "Discovery allows me to play. Wonder through tag streams and find related items in a way that helps me get at various topics in a much different way than search." On the other side, I have a colleagues who hate, no HATE , this part of the tagging experience and think it is a big fat waste of time.

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Silver Surfer Week 2006

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What a great idea! Silver Surfer Week is intended to encourage UK older people (over 50) to find somewhere this week where they can have a good first experience of Internet/email free of charge. They hope to get at least 10,000 over-50s to take their first mouse clicks onto the Internet. There are all types of different facilities throughout the UK making their computers available.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Confession: I'm a car slob too.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I gave someone a ride in my car and I had to apologize for being a car slob. I have some good excuses - have young kids who eat in the car, I'm too crazy busy to clean it up, it has almost 100,000 miles, etc. Well, I'm also a tagging and rss slob. I'm not going to put the link in to it - but tagging and rss encourages my sloppiness. I need to change my habits and be a little more neater and thoughtful.

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Questions as Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love Jamie McKenzie's Questioning Toolkit that leads you through different types of questions and how you can use them in instruction. What I like most is the Unanswerable Questions. His other article is titled " Questions As Technology ," and while it was written in 2002, it still resonates: Because the new information landscape is streaming by at supersonic speeds, we find ourselves working overtime to ???

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From Tag to Ag: NP Example

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just found Sonny Cloward's post about how he used delicious/tags to get resource content published and organized on the Web site. Here's his post explaining how he did it. Here is what the resource section looks like. Therefore added thought bubbles to represent the publishing side of the tag usage. Sonny's would be using tags to publish a resource directory to a web site.

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Nonprofit Use of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Use of Tagging Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Playing with visuals. for the big picture look. Have a story to illustrate an organizational example - a composite of tales. My other brainstorming is here. This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.