Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2005

We're hiring! Benetech is in growth mode, and we're hiring for three positions right now. I'm seeking a new CTO to help grow Benetech's project portfolio and our engineering team, and to help me handle the incredible range of opportunities Benetech has for changing the world. Bookshare.org needs a dynamic person to manage and drive the expansion of our collection, managing both automated and volunteer processes to bring more books to more people with disabilities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2005

One of my personal resolutions for 2006 is to be less sloppy with tagging and organize my rss feeds. I use newsgator for my Cambodian feeds and wanted to consolidate and organize in bloglines. So, had to figure out if there was a way to export them from newsgator and import into bloglines. You have to save the "OPML" file from program onto your hardrive and then upload/import it into the other.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

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

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I am participating in my first Nonprofit Blog Exchange set up by the fabulous Emily. I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. Daniel's blog was recommended to me through a great list serv for anyone interested in volunteers and volunteer program managment, Cybervpm at Yahoo!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I've been taking some time today to browse through a year's worth of service requests from our clients. It's very useful to step back and take a look at what the non-profits we work with have been trying to accomplish with their information systems. What are the challenges these groups are facing? What seem to be the burning needs of the advocacy groups, service organizations, think tanks, and associations we work with?

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2005

Baldrige National Quality Award Launches Nonprofit Pilot Program :: PNNOnline :: : "Baldrige National Quality Award Launches Nonprofit Pilot Program Posted by: alvenable on Friday, December 16, 2005 Topic Special Features As an introduction into the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program, associations and nonprofits will have the unique opportunity to participate in a pilot application program to be launched in January 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2005

Not too long ago, a researcher looking at early childhood and technology asked me for permission to include a reference to my post, " Mommy, what's a blog ?" Today, I discovered the future: Miniscobleizer ! Thus inspired, I started a group on flickr called nptechkids.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2005

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

DECEMBER 17, 2005

My friend Abby, the Executive Director of the school gardening nonprofit, Urban Sprouts , has taken the plunge and started an Urban Sprouts blog. Hooray! If there are any readers out there who want to start a blog for themselves, here are my basic, "accidental techie" guidelines. 1. Decide what you want to write about. The best blogs are ones with a particular focus.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps. Here are three you might want to check on every few days: 1. Solution Watch. This site was created by 19 year old Brian Benzinger, a student at Gibbs College in Norwalk Ct.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2005

Charity VillageNewsWeek: Cover Story : "Future Present: The evolution of online fundraising and donor communications Andy Levy-AjzenkopfDecember 12, 2005 By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf There's no doubt about it. Modern technology has taken over the way people and organizations communicate with one another. Getting your message out there is as easy as the click of a button.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Jim's adventures in Tunis I had to write these experiences down. They are not Benetech-relevant, but I circulated them inside Benetech and was encouraged to post them in the Beneblog. Advance notice: my longest post ever. Written on November 20, 2005. I felt the need to jot down a few notes about my visit to the old part of the city of Tunis. It's a series of stories, all crammed into less than 24 hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 MoveOn Ever Spent: Flickr via Jon Stahl. The article describes how MoveOn is experimenting with flickr, believed to be the first political campaign to make use of flickr. The article points out that adhoc groups have formed on flickr to support photo sharing and organizing around political topics, but MoveOn's use of flickr is on a larger sca

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2005

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

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I'm double blogging these days, here and on the NetSquared blog. That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. A gathering for folks to socialize and chat about how nonprofits can use web-based technology like blogs, podcasts and social bookmarking for change. Here's info. for the next Net Tuesday happening in the Bay Area. The photo is from NetSquared's "I Want Change" Flickr group where folks are posting photos with signs that say what they want to change in the world.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Since installing and modifying my new template, I have a new-found confidence in my ability as a CSS programmer. So I started trolling the net for new ideas and sample scripts for improving my Blogger site. I found quite a few. As I play with these tools over the next while I'll offer more substantial reviews that might be useful to other Blogger-based bloggers out there - but until then, let me leave you with a few useful sites: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

Nancy White has some mindmaps up for the Technology for Communities report she is working on. She is using flickr to share and get feedback via the comments feature in flickr. She has also shared how she is tracking the resources she finds in delicious using the tags below. And, if you're really interested in learning more about some of these tools, cpsquare is holding a Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice Conference beginning next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

I really should be finishing up moving over my files, configurations, and last couple of software programs, but I started woolgathering instead. I found an article called " Ten Bloglines Hacks." There's a great hack to add "tag in delicious" instead of a clipping file and a pointer to a windows blogging client called elicit that I must compare with ecto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Imagine a software conga-line with floppies and CD-ROM's snaking around the computer and waving little hands. That is what's happening here today after wiping the hard drive and re-installing the operating system on the computer. Now I'm in the process of getting my software on and reorganizing god knows how many gigs of data that I've ported over from my old computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

Meet Zarah Jane Almeida who works as a producer for Mlup Baitong's Environmental Advocacy Radio Program. She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. Born in Roxas City, known as the seafood capital of the Philippines, she graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in mass communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link]. I couldn't find anyplace on the site defined what a software bounty is, but assuming from the listings it means getting paid for coding as opposed to coding for coding's sake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 25, 2005

Via Dina Mehta come an announcement about Remembrance Week. The WorldWideHelp Group would like you to join us in Remembrance Week. It's designed to remember the one-year anniversary of the Tsunami as well as the other major disasters that stroke our world during the year. They want to use the energy and power of the online community that came to together to help people impacted by these disasters and remind us that people are still suffering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Every 5 years or so, I'm forced to upgrade computer before it dies or becomes so slow I'm not productive. I've been doing that since I owned my first PC (286) in 1984. I try to get a machine that will be workhorse for at least five years. I usually purchase in the fall when Dell and others will negotiate prices with you. Then spend some down time during the holidays migrating from the old computer to the new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Okay, I can't help but think about the famous Australian line, "Now that's a knife." Mal Booth, Head of Research Centre, at the Australian War Memorial Museum comes word of museum podcasting from down under. We've just ventured out for the first time into podcasting. These are designed to accompany a 'treasure trail' in our museum over summer (in the southern hemisphere).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Here's a collection of group creative problem-solving techniques catalogued by UK consultant Martin Leith. Some of these might be appropriate for small group activities in a training for brainstorming new ideas related to the topic of the training. Here's a classic - brainstorming on post-it notes. Leith also has another site about large group intervention methods , including a description for open-space technology approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2005

The photo on the left is my contribution to the netsquared iwantchange group. To find out how you can participate, check out. Marnie Webb's post about it. Why are we holding a sign that says "Buy Made in Cambodia Clothes?" Cambodia has become a big player as a garment exporter by passing labor laws, providing decent conditions in factories, offering benefits we take for granted in us (vacation, maternity leave, paid overtime) and working with socially responsibility companies that sell

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs. Even better, according to a comment, they've raised $5,600 so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

Here's Robert Scoble saying a few words during the Global s London Summit. He refers to that moment in a post about netsquared titled Making the World a Better Place Through Your Browser. And, here's an article from OpenDemocracy briefly touching on that moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

Marnie Webb is writing again about mistakes. The post she points to talks about genuis makes mistakes, the particular genius is Igor Stravinsky. Her post made me think of a book I read a while back called " How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci " by Michael J. Gelb while preparing a workshop on creative thinking strategies for a leadership circle for individual artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. Tharum and I have been in communication via our blogs, IM, and email for over a year now. In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London.

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