Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 28, 2006
One of our hottest human rights projects is our work in Guatemala, helping with the huge secret police archive that is being analyzed there. National Public Radio's Morning Edition had a great story on the topic this morning, and Benetech's very own Patrick Ball was quoted talking about this as the largest secret police archive ever made available to the human rights process.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 28, 2006
Flickr has added a new feature to its organizer - the ability to add geotags to your photos. And best of all it is done visually. There is now a map tab where you can navigate to a location and then automatically add the geotags to that location to a flickr photo or batch of photos. The feature also includes privacy controls so you can make the geotag private independently of the friends/family privacy codes.
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Forum One
AUGUST 13, 2006
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.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 31, 2006
In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. If you: * Have something you want to say and share with other people * Want to join an online community of like-minded people * Are looking for a new communication tool for your nonprofit or business
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
AUGUST 23, 2006
Just back from vacation. And although it's still August and the calendar says summer lasts another month, that Back to School vibe is in the air and the season is definitely waning. The "let's get back to business" feeling seems to be widespread - everyone is blogging about fundraising this week. I always eat up this information, because I'm not an expert in development, but I'm always asked to help automate development tasks.
AFP Blog
AUGUST 28, 2006
CharityVillage® Research: Communications: Content is king online : "Content is king online Pattie LaCroixBy Pattie LaCroix August 28, 2006 You remember the days when flash movies on a web site were all the rage? Remember having to wait through long loading times just to view the same flash movie over and over again every time you came to the same web site?
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 31, 2006
My bird photography days Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. From about 1987-94, my husband and I did a lot of bird photography. I recently came across our archive of slides. (Remember those). I picked one to scan. This is night crown blue heron. We had a huge lenses that weighed a ton and would drag it and a heavy tripod -- get up at 4:00 a.m. and sit in blinder until we captured the perfect shot.
Forum One
AUGUST 13, 2006
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.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 29, 2006
A study for the nonprofit Womens Way found that women who volunteered improved their leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. According to the Womens Way press release , "The correlation of women’s professional growth and development with their philanthropic involvement makes a strong business case to employees and employers about the importance of investing in community involvement as a professional development tool.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
AUGUST 11, 2006
Here's another very promising open-source web development tool I've come across in my month of feverish web development - the Aptana IDE. Aptana is an integrated development environment for HTML/CSS/JavaScript projects, built on the Eclipse desktop. It's a major step towards bringing to web development the same kinds of tools we take for granted in java, Delphi, or C++.
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AFP Blog
AUGUST 10, 2006
onPhilanthropy: 10 Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World : "10 Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World By: Marnie Webb, 08/09/06 Here’s the thing: when nonprofit staff start thinking about using web-based tools, they often think about doing it themselves. About starting a blog. About making a section of their site dedicated to photos. About creating something where there was nothing.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 31, 2006
I got an email from Joitske Hulsebosch who writes the Communities of Practice for Development Blog with a copy of the onlne conversation we had about blogging. That was almost a year ago and Joitske want thinking about blogging. I encouraged her, gave her a few tips, and she went on to create a fantastic blog. Today I read a post in her blog that she learned about about a service where you can make your own animation film online and was inspired to make an animation flim after a meeting with a c
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 31, 2006
Here's my post for BlogDay 2006. I'm sharing five "new to me" blogs that I discovered this year. Thirteen Peny Picayne - Is the personal blog of Andy Fluke from NCDD who I met last month and has the chance to live blog the NCDD gathering in San Francisco earlier this month. I really enjoyed hanging out with Andy and I learned a lot about technology, dialogue, and NCDD community.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 29, 2006
I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 30, 2006
It's harvest time and we're enjoying a huge crop of heritage tomatoes from the garden, more than enough to share with the groundhogs. Pictured above are the fruits of my conference networking over the past few months. It's a huge pile of business cards. I did follow up in a triage sort of way, but not comprehensively with everyone I met or exchanged cards with.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 29, 2006
I'm still stuck in Outlook and email clutter and hoping to free myself, although I'm not sure if it is my bad habits that are cause the clutter versus the software. Michael Stein (East Coast) recently commented on an earlier post of mine about in-box clutter. He left a comment and I asked him if he would share some of his work flow in gmail and treo.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 28, 2006
As some of you who are following this blog already know, my dad expressed some interest in blogging. So, when we visited two weeks ago during our vacation, I spent some time introducing him to blogging. I decided to video blog some snippets of the process and posted the first two of three videos and blog posts about it. #1: The First Conversation ( video ) #2: What will you write about?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2006
A couple of years ago, I collaborative with several colleagues at Summit Collaborative to develop a list called " Fifty Fabulous Free and Low Cost Nonprofit Friendly Web Resources." It was pre-Web2.0 and four years a later, there are lots more free tools. So, I was particularly delighted to see this new toolkit from my colleagues at Npower Seattle.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 25, 2006
About a year ago, I asked a variation on Britt question: Where are the nonprofit vloggers ? Less than a year later, Britt discovered quite a number of nonprofits blogging on YouTube. Also, if you're including women nonprofit machimina makers - take a look at Evonne Heyning's work. I would also this same search on ourmedia and blip.tv and perhaps send a shout to the vlogging online communities beginning with freevlog.org.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 25, 2006
Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising. Carnet also introduced me to Mollyguard and I took the opportunity to interview the co-founder, Julia Hartz, for blogher.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 25, 2006
Issac Asimov once said, " Writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers." For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 25, 2006
Last month, as the UPS man was delivering my copy of The World Cafe book , Nancy White was skyping me from a gathering of the GIGIs and introduced me to the co-author Juanita Brown who I later met in-person during the NCDD Conference. Now, I'm a GIGI and helped with set up and launch of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog ! From Tom Hurley's post about The World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue " a gathering of World Cafe pioneers, long-time hosts, and others who have expressed their commitme
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2006
So, while I'm waiting for my 2800 plus email messages to download and organizing almost as many flickr photos, I discovered a wonderful new FREE mapping program called Wayfaring. You can plot your route, describe it, use tags, have other people track you, blog it, and oh so cool. So, I plotted our vacation where we logged almost as many miles as I have email messages and linked to flickr photo sets.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2006
Back from vacation, I started to browse my bloglines while my email client was busy downloading 2,893 messages that were sent to me in the last two weeks and found this interesting WSJ article " What does your inbox say about you ?" by Jeffrey Zaslow via 43 folders. The point is that your inbox is basically a mirror of your life and your habits and that you need to walk a middle line between these two options: Option A: "If you keep your inbox full rather than empty, it may mean y
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2006
This week several Cambodian bloggers conducted a workshop on Personal Information Technology at International University. Kalyan Keo was one of the presenters. Khmerak (aka Phnom Penh Geek) who is off to Malaysia , along with Lux Mean - also shared their experience. This is very exciting to read about. It looks like it was more of a presentation than hands-on lab experience (I'm sure computer labs with Internet connections aren't easy to come by.).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2006
via Lifehacker comes a pointer to a kick-ass screencast called " A Beginner's Guide To WordPress " from Rachel Cunliffe, a web designer from New Zealand. Definitely work a link in my tutorial collection in the sidebar of my blog.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2006
I was on vacation during the Second Life Community Convention. Mitch Kapor (who is an investor) gave the keynote. Here's three quotes: " Second Life is a disruptive technology on the level of the personal computer or the Internet." ???Everything we can imagine and things that we can???t imagine from the real world will have their in-world counterparts, and it???
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 20, 2006
Watch the Video. And for something completely different to do. we went to the Crawford County State Fair. We saw monster trucks, junk food vendors (fried twinkles anyone?), 4-h cows, vegetable winners and quilts.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 21, 2006
I just discovered another great blog. It is called " Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom " and written by Joe Dale. While browsing the useful articles and links on the side bar, I found a little wiki called " Webnotes " and created my own space. It is sort of close to what I've always wanted - a diagramming or visual wiki. Think mindmanager wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 16, 2006
View from the Nonprofit Tech Center Originally uploaded by eekim. This is very cool [link] The San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center, a new collaborative technology center. It is a community workspace for individuals and organizations passionate about creating better technology for meeting nonprofit needs!
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