John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Marnie Webb, CEO at Caravan Studios, recently asked nonprofit tech folks via Twitter “I’m giving a talk on the next wave of technology for NGOs. What groups of technology would you include? ” I think Marnie was asking about tools or technologies, like Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Breakthrough Philanthropy event put on by Peter Thiel's foundation, covered in the local press with articles like "Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy" from the San Jose Mercury News. And the last group is well known to tech people, the X PRIZE Foundation.

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2016

Another awesome 16NTC conference starts next week in San Jose. There's going to be some terrific panels aimed at nonprofit advocacy, fundraising, tech, and leadership teams. Every year we go through the program to help you focus on the top 10 sessions to attend. Digital Outlook: Ready, Set, Go… Wait, Where Are We Going?

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Further up north in San Francisco, headquarters to numerous tech companies big and small, the Board of Education recently approved a measure to expand computer science courses from preschool to 12th grade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. Recently, Heather Mansfield at the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The Extraordinaries has also been doing a good job of tracking nonprofit iPhone apps over at their blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. We held our first NetSquared Camp in China and co-organizer Matt Jung reports on innovative Chinese tech for good projects. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2015

Next year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (March 23–25, 2016) will be in our own backyard — San Jose — so TechSoup will be there with bells on!*. It's time for the annual community voting on #16NTC sessions. We are looking forward to engaging with the #nptech community.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

The small conference room in San Jose, California, was dimly lit and buzzing with intensity, while being relatively silent, except for the tapping of keyboards and the occasional chuckle or sigh.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. Bonus If you’re feeling excited about this, we’re sweetening the deal.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Leading the pack with innovative ideas, amazing grassroots social change, and barn-raising tech solutions, the N2Y4 is not to be missed. It will be held in San Jose, California from May 26-27. Limited tickets are still available, so get yee registered today !

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, tech company Zendesk teamed up with San Francisco nonprofits St. At TechSoup, we believe in digital inclusion and using technology for social good.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. Maura Lafferty, an independent communications consultant working with classical musicians and performing arts organizations in San Francisco, CA.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. If you, or someone you know, is working on a tech for social impact project, please encourage them to nominate their project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet). In addition to recruiting additional talent to our team in, we're also recruiting advisors and donors from the top echelons of the tech community.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. I'll see you at The Tech!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

TechSoup and its members have been central to the launch of BetterWorld Wireless and subsequently our ramping and scaling up of Mobile4All — a partnership with San Jose-based Community Technology Alliance, Downtown Streets, and a host of other corporate and nonprofit partners.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. December is Human Rights Month, and it inspired some great work. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Employee Engagement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2016

The Future of Collaboration: Tips and Tech Tools to Empower Teams. There you have it, my top picks for NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose. In season 2 of the Raise+Engage podcast I am going to tackle this topic, so it’s a good one to listen in and get opinions and ideas to share in June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. There wasn't much of a budget for technology and many of my co-workers weren't especially tech-savvy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. "Now" comes off as disingenuous and irrelevant if done wrong. And now is not tomorrow. It is not the long term. It is just now. Endlessly, persistently, expensively, now. This was impossible. The exhibits we put on the floor were immediately dated.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

Both in attendee feedback and in our own debriefs, we''ve identified a number of points that we want to formally share back out here to gather additional feedback and share some of our thoughts as we look ahead to 2016 (in San Jose, March 23-25). Looking forward to seeing you in San Jose for 16NTC March 23-25!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. The valley is famous for spawning many contenders in each new tech area, and only a few survive. I'm putting the text of the op-ed below: Silicon Valley has become rich by selling our products around the world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

However, the San Jose-based nonprofit, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), had a hunch that cellphones might be a surprisingly good place to start getting employment and becoming self-sufficient. Just like any single thing, mobile phones are a help, but not a cure for homelessness.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Social Good Tech Week. Social Good Tech Week. Social Good Tech / San Francisco, CA / Not available. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. Accounting. Accounting. Spring 2016. One week, thousands of people and ideas. Harnessing the power of technology to create and scale social change. Fundraising / #AFPFC / @AFPIHQ.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

My job now at GlobalGiving is to make sure that everything we are doing, and everyone who is working on donor-facing activities (business development, marketing, tech) is organized in some sort of recognizable formation. Why do you think Global Giving is unique and does fabulous work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Witness this posting placed on craigslist yesterday: Lovely Blonde at The Tech Museum on Sunday - m4w - 46 (san jose downtown) Date: 2007-10-14, 9:05PM PDT We chatted briefly while attending the Body World exhibit at The Tech on Sunday in downtown San Jose.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Tags: Tech Virtual. This is happening very, very quickly.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. The Tech's system is barely better in what is provided , offering a glimpse into the actual exhibits you visited and the content (mostly photos) you took onsite.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Beck talked about her role as the only tech person at a mid-sized science museum as one of capacity-building. A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum.

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