Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2009

It was exciting to note the publication of my big article on Benetech in MIT Press' Innovations journal. This article was my first big step in writing up some of Benetech's history and why we do what we do, and the process of working with the editors gave me a taste of what I'm in for with a book!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!” ” Now certainly development professionals have a history of using research – think donor research for big endowment campaigns.

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Attention Data Fundraising Journal 99

Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

The specific amount should be carefully based on the donor’s history and affinity for the cause, financial capacity, philanthropic nature, and relationship to the solicitor(s). Blunder No. 3: Not asking early in the meeting. Most donors are busy people and every minute is precious. Sign up here for a free subscription.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The first part of the book identifies eight common triggers that undermine our ability to connect with people whole history and values may be different from our own. The second part of the book offers simple and very specific everyday practices that enable us—as individuals, in our organizations, on our teams—to create cultures of belonging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Throughout history, philanthropy plays a very important role because it directly impacts our wellbeing. She came up to me and said she was very impressed by the history of American philanthropy and the AFP professionalism. I then said to her ‘Don’t you know that Egyptian has a longer history of philanthropy than the Americans?’

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] This might include the types of projects they’d like to help with, when they’re available, and their history volunteering with the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Lehrer’s piece on the Wall Street Journal is here. We live in an amazing moment in history where change is powered by the bottom up. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

For example, keeping a journal of what you consume and taking incremental steps towards reducing it so it becomes a lifestyle change. I know for myself that a return to keeping visual journals on paper and drawing with magic markers has been incredibly useful in this area.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

My parents realized that my cultural heritage would mostly be a footnote in history text books throughout my formal education, would be under-represented or poorly represented in the media, and would generally be misunderstood by many. Journal of Counseling Psychology , 58 1, 42-60. ^ [5] Supple, A.J., Ghazarian, S.R., Frabutt, J.M.,

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

List causes related to what you do, e.g. cultural institutions, environmental organizations, human services, journalism, justice and legal, education, international relief, veterans organizations, religious organization, etc.]. Have you interacted digitally with any organizations over the past 12 months?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

We’re honored to support the process towards justice and accountability at this critical time in Guatemala’s history. HRP team members presented papers at academic conferences, published articles in academic journals, and offered many public talks. The year 2011 has shown in many ways that the arc of history is bending toward justice.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Takeaway #1 Know Your Donors Ogilvy had an “aha” moment when researching Rolls-Royce – discovering in a trade journal that their engineers focused extensively on reducing noise. This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Briefly describe its history, founders, board members, purpose, achievements, and aspirations. Don’t drag on, as everything contained in this “summary” will be found in more detail elsewhere in the proposal. Finally, give a detailed explanation of who and what your organization is. Goals, strategy, and evaluation (1 page each).

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Documentary: A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Be sure to check past reviews and work history. You might see close-up shots of products or images of VIPs or event attendees to capture and promote the event more functionally. Typically used for company events. .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. On that note, if you're interested in open data, I highly recommend Martha Mendoza's talk from that same event on FOIA requests and journalism--very powerful stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.) I am going to have to stop using Chrome. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. This is a detailed history from the future. WHAT IS A VISION? A vision is not a solution to a problem.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is a new blog written by Diane Ragsdale as part of the Arts Journal suite. Across the Atlantic in the Netherlands, Jasper Visser has been chronicling some of the truly exciting experiments he and his colleagues have been doing as they develop the national history museum for their country. Thinking about Exhibits.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2011

History repeats itself, right? Lately, I’ve been keeping a journal of all the things that happen during the day that are good – things I accomplished during the day, things that randomly happened, happy surprises, etc. - Mike is an entertaining speaker and the day was full of ‘aha’ moments for me. Love this!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

QuickBooks is a relational database, and as such it offers a few ways to flag (or relate) transactions such as invoices, cash receipts, bills, cash disbursements, and journal entries to Customer/Jobs (funding sources) and Classes (programs).

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Classes Job Grant Database 36

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Documentary: A style of video journalism that documents events chronologically. Be sure to check past reviews and work history. You might see close-up shots of products or images of VIPs or event attendees to capture and promote the event more functionally. Typically used for company events. .

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

She is currently an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at William & Mary where she researches, teaches, and writes about early America. Wulf shared a personal example of how online collaboration has positively changed the way his daughter, Karin, works. Karin Wulf is a distinguished professor in her own right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

IT Adoption among Nonprofits" by Paul-Brian McInerney (who is an editor for the forthcoming NTEN and Gilbert Center "Journal for ICT in Social Change Organizations). The paper traces the history of nonprofit technology circuit riding and includes lots of the history from Gavin Clabaugh. (In MediaJumpStart, 2002).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Geography is fluid, though. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

This is already being done through other channels - whether staff is speaking/attending conferences, publishing articles in journals, conversations with grantees or experts in the field, posting white papers and research on the web site. Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Here are some example of tweeting thought leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book “Now is Gone” was released in 2007 and has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media. It’s that our congressional representatives can get away with this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

" Slate's Fresca initiative -- a program requiring its editorial staff to take 4-6 weeks to investigate and write up in-depth pieces -- found the same thing , netting millions of page views for its long-form journalism. All you have to do to get to them is scan and skim through a brief history of why we think nobody reads on the web.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. Ideas Museum of Art and History Museums Engaging in 2.0 I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m proud we were cast as innovators. Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2018

What are you going to do with all the notes in your journal and ideas in your head? You've just come home from a conference. You finished a book. You aced that course. Over the past year, I've been learning more about what it takes to spark and lead large-scale social change (especially from these folks ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other. If you're looking for inspiration with a collections focus, the Underground Library is a compelling experimental space dedicated to archiving all media produced in Chicago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I’ll have to admit to my preference for Joomla, although Drupal is growing on me more and more. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. This is a must-read.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2008

One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. After a long day and a glass of wine, I asked Mitch who buys museum books.

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