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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them!

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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. feed where he is tagging resources here. s showing and that knowledge is part of the feedback loop, so let us know in a comment. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters).

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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Is Your Contact Network More like Open Source or Propritery Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The point of knowledge networks in a tool like LinkedIn is to be. knowledge. Gotta go back think about care and feeding of the network, started this last September. So, is your personal knowledge network like open source software or is it under lock and key? connections. not showing who they are. t show the.

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Great reads from around the web on March 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The checkins functionality in the Ushahidi Platform is one of the first open source checkin products that crosses multiple mobile platforms.

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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.