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Now That’s A Spreadsheet!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the sequel movie Crocodile Dundee 2, there is a great line when Mick Dundee visits the US and two guys try to rob him at knife point. He pulls out his outback knife, which is three times larger and says, ”Now, that’s a knife!”

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. ” A wink and nod to a famous novel and movie in Brasil about a women with two husbands named Marcleo. ” The unofficial title was “Beth and the Two Marcelos.”

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Ending the Book Famine: the Marrakesh Treaty The World Blind Union talks about the global book famine experienced by blind people, and the negative impacts on education and employment on many millions of people around the world. Ten years ago, I was one of a handful of leaders who got together to create a first draft of a global treaty.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. I think maybe a movie or game or two gets downloaded. Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. He has seen it all. How does 11K gb connection speed sound to you? billion to date.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. It doesn’t cover movies. The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) Article 2(c).

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Games Games Games

Museum 2.0

Games about the Sixth Extinction , the global food chain , lyme disease , and so much more. Barry has taught thousands of NYC youth and facilitated over a thousand hours of youth programming, including as troop leader of his daughter’s Girl Scout Troop. Games about gut microbiology. Games about pterosaurs. Games about killer snails.

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Future of Volunteering from the Volunteer Canada Perspective

Connection Cafe

From discussions with our global networks, these dynamics are experienced throughout the developed world. In a socially distanced world, virtual tours of non-profits, lunch and learns with community leaders, book clubs, or movies with facilitated discussion can strengthen that foundation.

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