Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 29, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 25, 2007
One of the things I often talk about in my public speaking is the continuum that goes from pure profit orientation to pure charity. Most social entrepreneurs I know operate somewhere in between, and for good reasons. Charity is an important and good thing, but charity can be a powerful negative force when misapplied. My example of this is the abusive use of foreign aid in ways that support the giver and damage the recipient.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2007
Marc Sirkin at last year's Games for Change Conference. Marc is the Chief Marketing Officer at the IRC. I've been following Marc Sirkin's blog for about a year before I met him at last year's Games for Change Conference where he taught me Brain Age and Mario. (At the time, my son was in the process of earning 50 stickers for NinendoDS and I wanted to be able to play with him.
Forum One
JUNE 14, 2007
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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Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 22, 2007
Guess what? Your advocacy made a difference. Oxfam announced yesterday that Starbucks signed an agreement with Ethiopian farmers: "Starbucks and Ethiopia have finalized an agreement that ends their trademark dispute and brings both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers. This agreement has the potential to give these farmers a fair share of the profits for their world-renowned coffees, and it’s what Oxfam has been pushing for since November.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JUNE 20, 2007
This week Jeff Atwood has a great post in his Coding Horror blog, excerpting from Steve McConnell's 1996 book Rapid Development. He quotes a list of "36 Classic Development Mistakes" that can doom your project. I've had to extricate teams (and I admit it, myself) from many of these over the years. Jeff and Steve are thinking about software development efforts, but any technology project is prone to these mistakes.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 18, 2007
Just published my first op ed on the raising the floor concept yesterday in the Sacramento Bee, Everyone deserves access to technology, online world , co-authored with Prof. Gregg Vanderheiden. This op ed was derived from remarks I made to the California Emerging Technology Fund's Roundtable recently. I want to sound the call for the technology community to get behind raising the floor for everybody around the planet.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 5, 2007
Just arrived in the mail along with the new copy of Daniel Park's Definitive Guide Camtasia Studio 4! Just in time to help me with the screencasts I'm working now about SalesForce.
Forum One
JUNE 10, 2007
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
JUNE 21, 2007
Over the past few years, FRONTLINE/World has produced a number of stories about social entrepreneurs, all of which you can watch online. On Monday, June 25th, they are going to hold an awesome-looking film festival, Heroes from a Small Planet , in San Francisco from 6-10 PM at the Delancey Street Screening Room. Not only will they be showing the films, but they will have also have panels with some of the shows' reporters and social entrepreneurs like Trevor Field, co-founder of PlayPumps Interna
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JUNE 15, 2007
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JUN 15, 2007 A Great Event Wednesday evening I was joined by 900 other folks at Jazz at Lincoln Center to support the American Jewish World Service and honor President Clinton.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 15, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A big player jumping into Linux June 15, 2007 Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks, Quicken, and TurboTax, are jumping on the Linux bandwagon. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 13, 2007
Benetech has been seeing incredible growth in our Martus projects over the last year! We now have over 60,000 bulletins which have been backed up to secure Martus servers by over 1000 users across the world. This represents 400% growth over last year. This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 30, 2007
Interesting Saturday morning. got interviewed by tv station on how I live blogged my summer vacation las year using wayfarer. Learned a few things from the interviewer and camera person about b-roll and directions of where to look and how to respond. some points that Andy Carvin made during the videoblogging and nonprofits session we did at NTC.
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Forum One
JUNE 4, 2007
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
JUNE 20, 2007
Today I joined Second Life , a virtual 3-D world built by its residents. At first I really didn't want to. I already spend way too much time online, but then there started to be events that I wanted to check out. Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JUNE 15, 2007
There's a lot of talk about accidental techies nowadays. But the non-profit world is also full of accidental marketeers: people who are experts in their subject but struggling beginners when it comes to selling their organization's programs to donors. This first half of June the blogosphere has been full of tips to help the accidental marketeer. 1. Underpromising A few days ago The Agitator talked about the current marketing maxim advising companies to "underpromise and overdeliver" and wondered
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 11, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders." That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 13, 2007
Santa Clara University invited Bill Coleman (founder of BEA and Cassatt), Jeff Miller (VC at Redpoint Ventures) and me to speak recently on the topic of "Working to Change the World." It was a great hour of conversation around social change and the tech community's role. The show will be broadcast on Thursday, June 14th, on KLIV radio, 1590 AM in the Bay Area, and is also available as a video on the STS (Center for Science, Technology & Society) website.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 30, 2007
My Flickr Stream. Pretty cool new feature from Google Maps - street view. You click on street view and you can see 360 photo of the street. I'm reminded about what Jerry from Electronic Sheep said at the 2006 Games for Change Conference about virtual worlds as a platform. He something along the lines that the next web platform will be walking through google maps in 3D.
Forum One
JUNE 1, 2007
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
JUNE 9, 2007
We want to show that it is possible to care enough to change things. We want to remove all excuses and impediments to individual action, because such actions--collectively--do make a difference -- Not On Our Watch. It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JUNE 14, 2007
I wrote about this a while back but I still frequently hear our clients worrying that every email they send out might be violating the CAN-SPAM act. Calm down. The law does not prohibit the sending of unsolicited commercial emails. It does not require people to opt-in to an email list in order for you to communicate with them. What it does do is set some very clear requirements that your unsolicited commercial email must meet.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 1, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good. Next steps are get some feedback, and move forward with it, somehow.
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JUNE 5, 2007
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 29, 2007
Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview.
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JUNE 22, 2007
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Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 7, 2007
No one likes to feel like they are being watched, especially if they are doing something wrong. Amnesty International is asking its supporters to monitor 12 villages in Darfur via satellite that they have deemed "vulnerable" to attack on its new site, Eyes on Darfur. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) provided expertise on satellite imagery and other geospatial technologies.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JUNE 11, 2007
I've had a few questions in my mailbox recently about this subject -- and as leader of a company that provides software development services, it's one that is dear to my heart. Our usual way of working with our clients is to estimate the time required for any requested programming task, and to guarantee we will come in within 20% of that estimate. So arriving at an inaccurate projection can really hurt.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 25, 2007
I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The session, presented by Cultural Connections , focused on museums, exhibits, and programs specifically developed to inspire visitors to take action in their own lives to create social change.
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