September, 2005

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

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Orphan works article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian News. I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with. Tim O'Reilly (who has been hugely helpful to us and especially Bookshare.org) published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Authors Guild suing Google's Library project.

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Help Katrina's Victims

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Make a donation to help Katrina's victims. Networked for Good. Red Cross. America's Second Harvest. Humane Society of the US. ASPCA. Also, check out the TLB's Blog Relief Campaign.

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

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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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Like pulling teeth

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Software Engineering texts often talk about “extracting requirements” from users. The dental analogy is painful. The implication is that the requirements are all right there - - but the users are oddly incapable of just spitting them out. A tray full of nasty-looking instruments will be necessary to grab onto them and yank. I'll tell you a story.

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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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Amusing animated political cartoons

Have Fun - Do Good

These animated political cartoons by Mark Fiore, www.markfiore.com, made my day yesterday: Find the Terrorist in Your Neighborhood Oh Yeah, That!

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Helping protect human rights information is one of our critical goals at Benetech. Information is the core of human rights work, and suppressing of such information is one of the ways perpetrators of abuses get away with their crimes. We created our Martus software to help protect human rights information. However, the confidential nature of field human rights work often makes it difficult for us to share our successes, lest we add to the risks grassroots activists already take on as part of the

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There are nice occasions where something humorous makes an important point. This presentation entitled Escape from CAPTCHA has a funny slide that captures the inaccessibility of many schemes used on web pages to keep out robot programs by requiring a human to enter obscured text. Thanks to Ivo Pletikosic for the link!

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The MacArthur Foundation just published a nice article on Benetech's human rights program in their latest newsletter. The Foundation has been a steady supporter of our work in the human rights field, and recently renewed that commitment with a three year, $800,000 grant to Benetech. Our human rights program is meeting its sustainability plan thanks to support from people like MacArthur.

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Cambodia has faster growing number of open source software users?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft.

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Searchable Conversations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlene Li writes about the potential of Google Talk to generate searchable conversations. Imagine if you were using audio in asychronous way in a forum - audio as dialogue - imagine how easy that would make it to scan the conversation.

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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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Nonprofit Technology: Wikipedia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology. Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ?

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Barry's Blog: Key Arts Policies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Barry???s Blog??? the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The press release says: Modeled on PBS???s McLaughlin Group , this blog will draw on the participation of 14 leaders in the arts to debate key policy issues and developments in the arts and culture sector.

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Podcast of Conversation with Wanna

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been very busy this week taking a fantastic online workshop on online facilitation from Nancy White at Full Circle. We had just finished an online chat where Nancy modeled some protocols for faciliating a large group chat where we discussed some interesting questions about the challenges of moderating chat with international participants when. I noticed one of the Cambodian bloggers, Wanna , had logged on to Yahoo IM.

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My nonprofit blog exchange entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am participating in the nonprofit blog exchange, an idea hatched by Deborah Finn and being executed by Emily of Emily's World. Last week, I received an email telling me that I had been matched with queensland positive people. (I have no idea who was matched with my blog.). The simple instructions were: The entry must mention the blog in some way and include the link to the blog.

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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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For some people in Cambodia, the devastating impact of flood waters is well known. The drawing above, titled "I hate the Flood" was done by a young girl who lived in my daughter's orphanage in October 2000. The Sharing Foundation raised $9,600 in donations for relief and rebuilding efforts. (And, relief was gotten to these suffering Cambodians much faster than to the people in New Orleans).

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Favorite Vacation Shot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This was my favorite photo of the kids from our vacation. We camped in Maine at Cobscook Bay. The tidal flats provided a lot of entertainment, including looking for snails. In fact, Harry wrote about it on his first day of school.

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Blueberry Documentary Vlog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Download blueberry_final.wmv. Production Notes: Harry was fascinated by the microphone and as result was too close to it. So, some of the over is a little distorted. Moviemaker has the ability for you to change the volume on chunks of the audio over and the audio on the video clips, however you can change volume within the clip. Even if you could record the narration over and over again to improve it, with a child you don't want them to feel bad.

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Katrina Tags: How To

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A late evening or rather early morning request came in from Nancy White about Katrina tags. (I was sleeping). I awoke to find that Alexandra Samuel has put together an incredible post summarizing everything you need to know about Katrina tagging. Here's the blog post. And, here's the wiki version.

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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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Chuck Patch is not dead!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chuck Patch , Director of Systems at Historic New Orleans Collection, and has been the leader of the Museums Computer Network group. He recent post to the list was: "Chuck Patch is not dead!" He is in Philadelphia! Another colleague posted that he had already known Chuck was okay because googled him and found information about his organization via a museum's database supplier.

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Refugee Database Specs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From David Geilhufe at Social Source Software. FINAL REFUGEE DATA EXCHANGE SPEC. Refugees can go to 20 different websites to find information on their loved ones. We are publishing a spec to facilitate data interchange among sites and that would allow the creation of a central database of most refugee databases on the web. We are also connecting database owners with volunteer programmers that can help implementing the spec.

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Technology for All - CTC at the Astrodome in Houston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Technology for all has the ctc set up in the Astrodome in Houston and you can read first hand accounts about their excellent work here. I made a donation to them - if you want to support them, you can make a donation online here. The internet connection is important for people to help locate missing loved ones as well as to get to the next phase - a new life, home, work, etc.

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Internet Access for Astrodome Refugees

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After watching some of the coverage on CCN tonight, it is difficult to sleep viewing the horrors. But, I learned via Andy Carvin's blog an effort that I want to contribute something to -- Internet Access for Astrodome Refugees is being coordinated by Technology For All in Houston. They have a donation page on their site and you write in the comments if you want to direct your support to this effort.

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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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My Camera has a Macro Lens!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was happy to discover that my new camera, a Canon PowerShot SD300, has a macro option. So, I spent some time on vacation learning how to do close up shots.

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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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Another tool for podcasting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Audioacrobat is another tool to put audio on the Internet using your phone. It also has some other features too.

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Katrina Blogs & Online Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Batista posted an excellent list of online resources and blogs about Katrina, including The Interdictor

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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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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

You may have noticed a new buzzword lately. Web2.0. Everyone is talking about it. Is this just technohype? Is it simply an umbrella for the innovative collaborative tools I've been talking about, like Writely and Kiko? Or is it something new, some brand spanking new technology being brought to your browser? Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved.

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Web-based writing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A few weeks back I talked about the wiki as a tool for collaborative writing. A wiki is a website that is easily editable by all members of a community. Recently I came across a tool that takes another approach to joint writing projects. Writely is a web-based word processor designed for shared writing. The person who originates each document can select which other users are allowed to work on it.

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Making rain

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I've been slowly working my way down the list of sites participating in The Non-profit Blog Exchange , reviewing one each day over my morning coffee. This morning we arrive at The Rainmaker's Blog. Maintained by fundraising professional Dana Salisbury, the site provides longer articles on non-profit management and finance. I couldn't find a statement of any sort on the site that explained the mission and orientation of the site, or the biographies of the authors.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I was in the middle of an office move many years ago, all my papers and books and files stacked on the floor or dumped in cardboard cartons, when the messenger service showed up to collect a proposal we'd just finished and and needed to get into the hands of our prospective client by close of business. Yikes. it was somewhere in that mess of papers and folders and boxes, but who knew where?

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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.