Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

I would recommend Animoto for any user who doesn’t have a lot of time to put into production or into learning specific technologies, but yet needs to churn out a high volume of videos. Step 4 - Add Images & Music. TechSoup's DigiToolbox is back to demo another tool you can pick up to tell your digital story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Musical instruments. Technology for day-to-day use, like backup batteries and charging stations, is especially relevant when requesting from technology companies. Annually file your Form 990 with the IRS. Arts and crafts. Kitchen goods. Electronics. Hobby supplies. Furniture(space permitting).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. In fact, that is far from the case.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? This blog is rated 8.2 very good, they say) on Blogged.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Welcome packet.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2013

You get unlimited storage, however, for purchased music, movies, apps, and books from iTunes. Time Machine is a built-in backup program in Mac OS X that works with your Mac to automatically back up your system files, applications, accounts, music, photos, and more. It also backs up photos and videos from your camera roll.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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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! All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. That’s all.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately.

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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. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. But, that was 4 years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. It offers classes in art, tailoring, mechanics, carpentry, masonry, technology, dentistry, nursing, electrical, and music, among other subjects. " More Stories; We Would Like to Add Yours.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. 20) Book club.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Technological change is no different. The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. The technology landscape of the past 30 years is littered with big hits and even bigger misses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

via Johanna Bates, nonprofit technology geek extraordinaire who works for Community Partners send me this update about a project that her husband, Colin Mitchell, just helped launch. He works for this non-profit that supports independent, non-corporate audio and video file sharing (among other things).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. If Apple's numbers hold up, it should make it easier for staff to file blog posts and first-person reports on the go and from the field. Smartphone sales are soaring , with 54.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. Technology can help – “Fuzzy Look-up” is an add-in for Excel, and is available free from Microsoft.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. In this way, the MP3 experiment is an example of the ways that technological barriers can become benefits by mediating otherwise uncomfortable interactions.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7 To make these files as searchable as possible, NMAAHC teamed up with Forum One and Quotient , to build the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Porta l. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help organizations incorporate new technologies, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our client organizations in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. For us, it was no different! To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help our clients incorporate technology, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our clients in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were musicians, we'd have the recordings and the sheet music. How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Going through the old exhibit files at ASTC, the file folders, the idea that those might make their way into here is really exciting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

Sam’s philosophy is that there shouldn’t be an expectation for busy nonprofit people to be experts in technology, but it is important that they be self-sufficient. It’s good to get some basic no nonsense information so organizations can worry less about their technology. That is truly important work for two reasons.

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