Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

Recently we asked for some of the thousands of people with disabilities using Bookshare.org to share how it has helped them. These thoughts from Chancey Fleet were particularly eloquent and I wanted to share it with you all. For most students, the freshman year of college is a time for discovering intellectual strength, getting behind a cause or two, and exchanging rapid-fire theories on life, the universe and everything at 3 AM when you should be writing the paper that's due at 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2005

The Khmer Open Source Software project has a blog community. One of the recent topics being discussed is: " What is the best Linux distribution for Cambodia ?" Have some thoughts or advice, the thread is in English so stop by and comment.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 28, 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

OCTOBER 9, 2005

I have been vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic. I have also been someone who will eat meat, but not dairy; someone who will eat meat, but only in restaurants; and most recently, someone who eats everything. But sometimes I have animal product guilt and go through periods of cooking vegan/vegetarian. We recently had some friends stay with us who are vegan.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Everyone is worried about identity theft and misuse of credit card data these days. Whose responsibility is it to keep this data secure? Well, if you accept credit cards, the responsibility, in part, is yours. And since June 30th, the Payment Card Industry (PCI), the umbrella industry group for the credit card providers, has been requiring that you meet quite a stiff standard for keeping this data locked down.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2005

Disasters in the Internet age : "Disasters in the Internet age The Internet -- more than any other tool -- is proving to be a significant means of communication during disasters. BY Dibya Sarkar Published on Oct. 31, 2005 On Sept. 15, through a private Web site called LATalk.org, Ruby pleaded for help. She asked whether anyone knew the whereabouts of her three aunts, who were missing since Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana Aug. 29.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2005

I also write a blog about Cambodia and sometimes my nonprofit technology and cambodian interests intersect. Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. A case study is also available. Blogs and Development Thinking from the World Bank.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 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

OCTOBER 30, 2005

Starting Tuesday, November 1st at 10 PM/9C, A&E will present a new reality show called Random 1. Each week a team of five people will meet two strangers and find a way to make a positive difference in their lives. The Random 1 project started in 1996 when two friends, Andre Miller and John Chester, hit the road looking to meet strangers at random and make a difference in their lives.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2005

One of these days, the computer on your desk will die. In the last week, I've had a number of conversations with my clients, and with the attendees at the YMCA Technology Conference in Raleigh, about how they deal with this fact of life. Not surprisingly there are a good many small non-profits out there that do not budget for the replacement of the their computers.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2005

PRESS RELEASE Sabre Foundation White Paper Offers New Digital Paths For Philanthropy To Make Nonprofits Self-Funding - Yahoo! News : "Sabre Foundation White Paper Offers New Digital Paths For Philanthropy To Make Nonprofits Self-Funding Wed Oct 12, 3:00 AM ET (PRWEB) - (PRWEB) October 12, 2005 -- Donors can offer digital donations -- gifts in electronic form -- for leveraging policy reforms and 'land grant' endowments that benefit grassroots groups in troubled areas, according to a white paper t

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Benetech helps drive indictment of a former dictator. Our team has contributed critical information that has helped Human Rights Watch with its campaign to bring the former dictator of Chad to justice. This is a great example of the power of information technology to advance the cause of victims of gross human rights abuses. On September 27, 2005 a Belgian judge issued an international arrest warrant charging Hissène Habré with atrocities during his 1982-90 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be taking place next month Tunsia. WSIS has just released a special report " Information Society: The Next Steps " that looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. Experts from governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector speak out about effective policies, promising applications and innovative business models.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 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

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Did you want to be Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter ? Have you always wanted to work for the United Nations? Well, you can, in a manner of speaking, all from the comforts of your own home. You can join the online volunteer service branch of the United Nations Volunteers Program. Right now they have 154 virtual volunteer opportunities to choose from doing translation, research, web design, data analyses, database construction, proposal writing, online mentoring/tutoring, curriculumm development,

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. I got dissapproving comments by half a dozen readers - typical was a comment from Mike at Mind Valley who says: I am surprised that you doubt the business value of tagging and social bookmarking.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2005

Kiva.org Merges Philanthropy and Venture Capital With First-Ever Microlending Web Site: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance : "Press Release Source: Kiva Kiva.org Merges Philanthropy and Venture Capital With First-Ever Microlending Web Site Wednesday October 12, 9:00 am ET PALO ALTO, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 12, 2005 -- Kiva, the first nonprofit organization to enable individuals to make personal loans to microenterprises in developing countries, launched its Web site today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2005

Bookshare.org is Rookie of the Year Finalist from EdNET. We were delighted to get this recognition, which is a measure of our move into the education field with Bookshare.org. It wasn't until last year that we really moved into providing books for students with disabilities, and we're still in the beginning phases of providing every student with a print disability with an accessible version of every textbook and trade book they need for educational outcomes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Download schachter.wmv. Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled ??? Future of Tagging ??? with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated. (Schachter also gave a luncheon presentation and you can read Deborah Finn's. notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). The room was packed and it wasn???

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Forum One

OCTOBER 3, 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

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Unicef has launched a new campaign this month, Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS. As part of the "What You Can Do" page on their site, they have links to donate money, sign up for an e-newsletter, download a banner to post in your email signature, blog or Web site, and download ringtones for your cell phone. How cool is that? Sadly my lame-o Verizon phone won't take ringtones other than the ones Verizon sells.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

I'm excited to have been asked to partcipate in this event: please check the TechSoup site often during the week - As my friend Carl always says, "We'll learn a lot and have a lot of fun!" The Impact of Web 2.0 on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 technologies and illustrate how using new

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 3, 2005

The Google Library question is a hot one, and we believe that this project will lead to better access for disadvantaged people. But, the disputes between Google and the publishing industry and authors needs to be concluded before things will move forward. The core question is whether Google's Library program is a fair use of copyrighted material. Good summary in the attached review post: Does Google Library violate copyright?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2005

I got an email from Teresa Crawford who is working with Aspiration on a software survey. I just took the survey, it didn't take much time at all. And, if you complete the survey, you're entered into a drawing for a Treo 650. Here's the link and information Aspiration is conducting the first-ever 'Nonprofit Software Survey' of those making decisions about software solutions in and for nonprofits and NGOs around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2005

by Sue Bennett with Contributors: Tom Battin, Eugene Chan, Mary Lester, Jonathan Stein, Cristina Chan, Tessie Guillermo, Miriam Engelberg How to manage tech support (and keep your sanity!). At the NTC Conference in Oakland in 2003, Compasspoint presented a workshop with the same title and it was packed and got rave reviews. I'm sure the book is excellent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2005

We did a few experiments in the Full Circle on Audio as Conversation and some of the tangents included some vlog posts, but here's a new forum set up at vlogdir that can embed video and mp3 in messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

When I heard that TechSoup will be hosting an online about Web 2.0 and Nonprofits on Oct. 24th and that Michael Stein was one of the co-hosts, I assumed (wrongly) that it was Michael Stein , Internet Strategist from Oakland, CA. But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers." The keynote was presented by George McCully, President, Catalogue for Philthanthropy. This gentleman looks like a Harvard professor, with his red bow-tie and eminent presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

At the NTC in Boston there were vendors in the hall way, including Macromedia. Since I had been playing with screencast software, Captivate , from Macromedia, I stopped by to put my card in the raffle for a copy of Studio and listened to the pitch. They are selling Breeze , "a rich web communication system that lets you reach your audience anytime with engaging multimedia content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2005

The Before Photo. I'm here at the NTC Conference, it hasn't started yet. I interviewed Joe Baker. He told me of a new evaluation project that N-TEN and Npower will be working on. The video clip is here: Download joe.wmv.

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