Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 27, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 23, 2007
Ann Harrison, our Communications Director, just pulled together a great photo essay on our work with the National Police Archive in Guatemala. Bringing Ann on board has been a key part of improving our communications as an organization. Ann's extensive experience as a journalist brings improved story telling to Benetech: combining our technical skills with the social impact that drives us.
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JULY 26, 2007
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 13, 2007
Source: Flickr User Lynetter. I'm tracking social media metrics for a variety reasons. Surprisingly, what I'm reading is coming to me via social sharing. What you're seeing above is a visualization of sharing intensity - this was the slide I took out of my presentation for the Bridge Conference Presentation earlier this week. Sharing, Engagement, Interaction, Popularity, etc are some of the emerging terms for metrics for social media that are in process of being defined.
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Forum One
JULY 30, 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
JULY 31, 2007
If you haven't read anything by blogger, Carmen Van Kerckhove, you are missing out. She is the co-founder and president of New Demographic , an anti-racism training company. She hosts the podcast Addicted to Race and blogs at Racialicious , Anti-Racist Parent , and Race in the Workplace. Her recent post on Race in the Workplace, "How to Respond to a Racist Joke," is brilliant.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 21, 2007
Well, it's 3 am, and I've just checked out of the all-night Bookshare.org Harry Potter on-line party. It's been going for 7 hours already, and the moment of truth is approaching. We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community.
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JULY 17, 2007
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 31, 2007
Click to Play. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman were in Cambodia and are in Thailand right now. They are traveling with Christina Arnold from Project Hope to document her project. Here's the backstory about how they got there, etc. Jay and Ryanne were delivering "video blogging kits" to Sharing Foundation in country staff to begin to capture some video of the work.
Forum One
JULY 5, 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
JULY 31, 2007
Guess what? I'm going to be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference that I mentioned in my Writing to Change the World post earlier this month. When I contacted them about a possible bloggership for the Conference, they asked me to speak. Wahoo! If you're interested in coming, the conference is August 23-25 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, which is known for its labyrinth.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 15, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new blog! July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 31, 2007
A friend of mine likes to tell this story from his early days as a software consultant. His team had spec'd out a system for a client, and implemented it in somewhat more than three the time they'd included in the contract. Even though they'd lost their shirts, they were full of excitement as they delivered their shiny new application to the client.
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JULY 24, 2007
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 31, 2007
Source: Tharum. Dear Nonprofit Tech Colleagues: I am seeking contributions of t-shirts for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. Participants will include bloggers who work for NGOS. When asked what I should pack in my suitcase , the response was "tech t-shirts." I've also been cruising the blogs written by Cambodian colleagues. A few work for NGOs.
See3
JULY 17, 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 JUL 17, 2007 I love this video. We made some terrific videos for CCAP - the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 30, 2007
Last week at the BlogHer Conference I had the pleasure of meeting Rochelle Robinson , the Online Program Manager for Ms. Magazine. Rochelle specializes in online advocacy using technology for positive change in public consciousness, law, and social policy. One of the cool things on her site is a link to Social Change Websites , a directory of nonprofit, grassroots and advocacy campaign web sites.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 15, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Sweet tasting dogfood… July 15, 2007 Part of the process I’m going through of “eating my own dogfood&# that is, using free software (open source) tools whenever I can includes taking myself off of proprietary platforms whenever possible.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 27, 2007
It's a wonder I have any time left to blog at all now that I've signed up for Facebook. But I felt I really ought to give it a test-drive, now that I see so many people urging non-profits to look into it. This post is for those of you who have not even peeked into it yet. I'll tell you my conclusion up front: For non-profits looking for ways to get their message in front of new audiences, especially a younger tech-friendly community, maintaining a Facebook presence is definitely worth exploring.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 30, 2007
Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Personal Information Technology Workshop ???
See3
JULY 12, 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 JUL 12, 2007 How many site visitors do you have? Or is that the wrong question?
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Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 28, 2007
I'm having a great time at the BlogHer Conference this year connecting with lots of do-good, good-hearted BlogHers like: Zoe Chafe, Staff Researcher and blogger for Worldwatch Institute. Rochelle Robinson , Online Program Manager for Ms. Magazine. Sheila Bernus Dowd, who writes about nonprofits in Silicon Valley on her blog, Starfish Circle. Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media & News.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 9, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. It sometimes tastes yucky. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 22, 2007
1. Tools: Web-development plug in for Firefox If you do any web-development work, you'll want to get a hold of the Web Developers Extension for Firefox. This capable tool lets you view -- and more importantly, modify in real time -- the css, scripts, images, cookies, and form elements in any page you are viewing. It was the CSS features that got me to install the plug-in.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 31, 2007
The KM4D Journal is produced by the KM4Dev-community and I was honored to participate on the editorial team for the the recently published issued on " Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development. " Nancy White and Lucie Lamoureux lead a team editors which include myself, Partha Sarker, Oreoluwa Somolu, Beverly Trayner, and Brenda Zulu.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 26, 2007
Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. Part of my job is to help put together Net Tuesdays in San Francisco, monthly meetings for social changemakers and web innovators to socialize, network and share resources. This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 6, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it! July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries.
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