Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. Why have a legislature?

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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. Check if you have to acknowledge in-kind gifts based on state laws, audit status, requirements from lenders, and value. Arts and crafts. Kitchen goods.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

First, he inspired us with his love of technology. But, seriously, he loved technology and was always talking about the coolest new thing. Second, he inspired us with his love of music. Of all the many ways he inspired us, six really stood out for Dad’s six children when we talked about it. He was always singing.

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MARCH 11, 2014

50 Shades of Social Media: Navigating Policies, Laws, and Ethics Thursday, March 12th, 10:30 AM. Building Effective Technology for Philanthropy. Dance the night away to 80''s music by DJ Tea Jay, complimentary food, and drinks. Here''s a list of some of my favorite sessions and parties that will be happening during 14NTC.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A guest Beneblog by Max Schneider People don’t typically associate boisterous merengue music with high-tech statistical analysis. Then again, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I heard the playful notes of a street band wafting through the window while in Guatemala with Benetech's Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2010

I'd like to give a shout-out to Dominic Perri who blogged this week about his 10NTC take-aways, focusing on the bigger-picture points of the conference and the nonprofit technology community. Congratulations! Did we miss anyone? Read the full description and participate in the month-long Think Tank here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) in Japan is a humanitarian educational association NGO that supports disadvantaged children and youth in Asia who are on the street, are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and natural disasters, or in conflict with the law. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Today, the technology available makes launching or re-launching a new-and-improved tribute giving program an obvious fit for the 2020s. Initially, live streamers that fundraised for their favorite nonprofits were gamers, but now the trend has expanded to streaming of all kinds, such as live music , cooking demonstrations , etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception. That's how I found my way into advocating for nonprofit technology and encouraging others to activism over technological legislation. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . As Robert Scoble pointed out, "It's not so much about technology but people."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest speaker at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The idea, grand in scope, was to present models and technology that can assist organizations shift internal cultures to make diversity of all types the norm. It all started back in March of this year. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

It was clear from the webinar that the natural progression of online technology and the best practices has progressed greatly over the past 18-24 months and that the nonprofit community has more opportunity than ever to recruit new supporters, raise more money and empower constituents to take action using social media like online communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

I found the majority of the time all I had to do was show up and talk to the Legislators about the impact of their legislation on technology. I will try to keep their minds fed with a fair display of music and art every 4 hours as well! (One of those was for municipal wireless access in Texas.) How many women do you think will show up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? If you could change the culture of prisons, you could change the culture of the country?"

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. It’s also very easy for just about anyone to put on due to modern portable karaoke technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Technology / #AOCS16 / @AOCSummit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

There were thousands of people in the park for plays, free music, and beautiful scenery. Museums need to develop ways to track frequency of use, whether with technology or otherwise As David Gilman commented, "How can we be friends if I not only keep forgetting things about you, but never learn them to begin with?" We love nice people.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

As a presumably law-abiding nonprofit, you might've wondered how much SOPA could've really endangered your mission. Those were the subjects of an afternoon panel today at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. But others had been fighting to stop the legislation long before its passage became a real possibility.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

" The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. Michael Enos, TechSoup's senior director for community and platform, sees a trend developing where nonprofits are leveraging existing technology platforms to "source to excess." Hybrid Cloud Computing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

People can touch individual spheres, each of which represents a musical note, to activate them, and the spheres create a song that evolves as spheres are activated and deactivated. It also ignores the laws of physics, and, more subjectively, is a little more precious than Tech visitors may appreciate. It's lovely. It's mu ltiuser.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

This is the question I hear most often about blogging, both from other technology vendors and from non-profit staff: How do you decide what to write about? My blog is about non-profit technology. It is not about other things that I may care strongly about, such as my family or foreign policy or music. You need content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

The book is " The Wealth of Networks ", by Yochai Benkler, who is a professor at Yale Law School. I think I’m liking the book so much because it’s an amazing combination of some of my favorite things: technology, law and economics. (No, It’s available at that link in a multitude of forms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

The basic idea is to bring together a combination of a green economy trade show with about four hundred green economy companies, and a conference on the green economy with about a hundred speakers, and then we have live music all day long, everything from hip hop to bluegrass. You see it with wind energy.

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