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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bar camps seem to be a new phenomenon, modeled after the FOO camps organized by Tim O'Reilly. Everyone was eager to swap notes and experiences, since the challenges we all face are quite similar. Picture of the open source foundations summit. After the summit, I attended the BarCampAmsterdam Bar Camp being held here.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft.

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The 8 Key Elements of a Federated Buying Agreement

Connection Cafe

The overall deal has to address not only licensing and servercloud services but must also consider design, implementation, support, modification, retraining, maintenance and upgrade—and it has to do this while respecting scale differences and various scheduling and operational constraints for all represented affiliates. Replication.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Are You Content Creation Impaired? Here’s Some Tips and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been using the “Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly” Maturity of Practice model as a framework for over a year now to assess nonprofit social media practice. An executive sponsor is necessary to lead the program and communicate its value and reach to the organization. The name references a Martin Luther King quote.

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first thing to point out is that Story of Stuff project is not an independent nonprofit (as far as I could tell) and is fiscally-sponsored by the Tides Center. They used a creative commons license – allowing anyone to use their films, put them on their sites, and do anything they wanted except sell it.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. Cool Factor : Mobile as a research tool. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action.

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