Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

I was stunned when I found out in New York that the plane I was boarding was the new Airbus A380, the massive, double-decker airliner. My full set of pictures are on Flickr: Dubai, UAE, Oman and Airbus 380 - a set on Flickr

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MARCH 29, 2013

This week's New York Times Magazine will feature the article, Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? Tweet Flickr photo credit: Just Give Me Water by Peter Korsh by Susan Dominus. The article explores the work of Adam Grant, a Wharton professor, and author of the forthcoming, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.

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MAY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book.

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JULY 15, 2013

New York, NY: Tumblr: The Marketing Powerhouse Your Nonprofit May Be Overlooking. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. Image adapted from Happiness is an ice cream cone as big as my head , creative commons licensed on Flickr. Manchester, UK: Charity & non-profit analytics meetup: Dashboards.

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DECEMBER 6, 2006

Graphic in Flickr Source: Tara Hunt's post " Cross the Chasm " Chris Brogan sent me a link to the new NpowerNY/Squido Handout on Seth's Blog. It's call org.2.0! It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land. Or maybe not.

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MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Stephanie Corleto is the Digital Communications Manager at National Institute for Reproductive Health and NIRH Action Fund , and has previously worked at WNET New York Public Media, French Institute Alliance Française, and Girl Scouts of the USA. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. If you're in the New York City area, Lunametrics is offering an in-person Seminar for Success on Google Analytics & Google AdWords July 23-27th.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr) I love "reading" my feed of stories told through images each day The Instagram community has grown quickly. On December 22nd, the New York Times blog, Bits , reported that Instagram passed 1 million users in two months. As of right now, Instagram is only available for iPhones.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. New York Times columnist David Brooks nails this in an op-ed piece, wherein he argues that Big Data, while very useful for guiding our intuitions, gets some things very wrong. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo.

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JULY 12, 2009

We have a family membership at an upstate New York sculpture center featuring outside exhibitions. Flickr photo: al binami , View CC license This article was originally posted on Getting Attention at [link] by Nancy Schwartz: Nancy E. Courtesy of Nancy Schwartz, publisher of Getting Attention.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. The New York State Senate has a Twitter feed. The New York State Senate website is built on Drupal. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. Participatory. Collaborative.

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JULY 15, 2011

Flickr: coolcatcookie Our community continually strives to further their missions and help other organizations further their causes, too! As you’ve probably heard, New York State recently signed historic legislation legalizing gay marriage and promoting marriage equality.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). The era of winging it in social media is over.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. On March 2nd, one of the highlights of the agenda is a keynote conversation with David Brooks , New York Times Columnist and Lois Salisbury , Director of Children, Families and Communities Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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APRIL 7, 2014

New York, NY: Salesforce, Oh the Possibilities: A Medium Dive. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Community. Tuesday, April 15. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Monthly meetup. Wednesday, April 16. Thursday, April 17.

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JUNE 2, 2010

I'll be red-eyeing it to New York tonight so I can be bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed for the start of the conference tomorrow morning and will be planning to live-blog posts throughout Thursday, Friday, and some maybe even on Saturday. read more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

According to the New York Times article, Route to Creativity: Following Bliss or Dots? Flickr photo credits: Pickles in Skippy''s basket by walt eis ; d-in-baset by Aaron Weber ; Puss in Hannah Basket by Greengirl24 ; Toolie waits by Linda Tanner * I will be moving Have Fun, Do Good over to my website, brittbravo.com.

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MAY 14, 2010

Flickr: levork) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharingtheir nptech awesome. Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesomeonline, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) What's Your Nonprofit's Superpower? Members are in bold.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Flickr: gareth1953 As you know, this Spring has seen some new faces at NTEN – including mine! Want to be sure I get you or your organization in the news in the future? During the transition, one thing has fallen from the blog: the regular member round-up. Well, don't fret! It's back now and here to stay.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Last December, a New York Times story called “ The Internet Gets Physical ” reviewed ways that companies and inventors were trying to “put digital ‘smarts’ into everything.”

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JUNE 9, 2009

Flickr Photo: zaklee Our web site is over two years old, and the botox just isn't hiding the. lost all your money on a street corner in New York City, trying to follow the. cracks anymore. Fortunately, the good folks at Beaconfire are helping us out with a. professional grade User Interfacelift, er, site redesign.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. I’d like to start off this week’s member news by congratulating my colleague, Annaliese Hoehling. The 9th Annual Games for Change Festival will be taking place on June 18-20, in New York City. TSDigs” will begin in February, so learn more now and register to participate in the webinars and Twitter chats!

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APRIL 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Flickr Photo: Lawrence OP A couple of years ago, I talked to Ed Granger-Happ about his philosophy for running the IT shop at Save the Children. And if you're ever in New York, you should stop by, too. The work they do is life-saving, so he felt it was important to be always looking for better ways to get it done.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Flickr: Julia Folsom As the clear skies of autumn give way to winter's moody precipitates here in Portland, Oregon, we can feel cozier by staying connected to our communities. Additionally, the Regional Representative will receive a trip to the 2013 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington, DC.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg In this article about Twitter and story-telling, NTEN members Beth Kanter and Thomas Negron are mentioned.

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MAY 5, 2009

In addition to the one-on-one consulting (captured by WeAreMedia Flickr BootCamp folks), a large group of nonprofit techies headed out to install two wireless networks, with equipment provided by Cisco, at the St. This year we saw a record turnout with more than 100 volunteers assisting about 60 Bay-Area organizations.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). This student-built app lets players take on the role of a ghost detective who encounters local residents who haunt the community.

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DECEMBER 16, 2006

Angelo was live blogging it remotely here and the flickr stream is here. At the same time, there was a wild and crazy 4th Birthday Party going for Creative Commons in multiple real world locations , Warsaw, Beijing, Amsterdam, Turin, Copenhagen, Lisbon, New York City and headquarters in SF. Dina Mehta was the irc steward.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, I was hopeful when I heard about The One Laptop Per Child - XO Giving on NPR yesterday morning and it also reported in the New York Times and ABC news. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited!

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APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Academy of Vocal Arts uses a flickr account to document organizational events/galas/benefits - good way to get started.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information. More >> Year. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design.

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