Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. Here’s our laymen’s take on the major provisions of the Treaty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The webinar highlighted how how the.NGO and.ONG domains and their functionality differ from the.ORG domain and featured OnGood – the new global directory of verified NGOs and ONGs. ONG” is the same, except in romantic languages (i.e. On May 6, 2015 the Public Interest Registry launched the.NGO and.ONG domains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. His specialty: user testing. A move to Benetech’s quality assurance team was a great fit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. English is increasingly favored as a second language. The official language is Bahasa Indonesia, which is a Malay language.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

InterConnection received the computers from Microsoft, installed Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007 (Czech language version of course), and shipped 157 computers by sea. Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network. There were no costs incurred by Microsoft for the donation. They’re a busy place. and everywhere else.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

You should also use engaging language to present this information to entice people to register. Her global professional background spans the fashion, luxury hospitality, and tech sectors and is complemented by her proficiency in various languages.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And last time we had you, you were stuck in Australia. So as Steven was saying, I live in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and part-time in Mollymook Beach, New South Wales, Australia, curiously enough. A member of the Fundraising Institute of Australia. But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Real-Time Nonprofit Strategic Planning Model The real-time nonprofit strategic planning model is useful when your nonprofit is in the midst of a crisis, like an economic recession or national/global catastrophe. This statement should use precise language but non-finite verbs. The situation could also be limited to your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The third edition of the Global Trends in Giving Report (the sister report to the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report ) will be published September 15, 2020 , and for the first time, we are conducting an open call for partners worldwide. It is important to note that the survey is anonymous and so is the data. Benefits of Partnership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

For nonprofits with a global audience, this is a long-time needed functionality for Facebook Pages. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

Nonprofits in North America, Europe, and Australia have a multitude of online fundraising services to choose from mostly thanks to their government’s efforts to build digital records and databases of legally verified nonprofits. That said, this year’s Global Trends in Giving Survey includes questions about crowdfunding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

At about the time I quit working for the day (6pm in Missouri, USA), nonprofits in New Zealand, Australia, and Asia are coming online for another work day. Google Chrome has a built-in applet that can translate Web pages into numerous languages with one click. Google Chrome makes it very easy!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2019

Phone numbers are provided for those in the United States, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. << View All Upcoming Free Webinars >> The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2021

2021 Global NGO Technology Survey & Open Data Project :: Take the Survey. 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report :: Download. 2019 Global NGO Technology Report :: Download. 2019 Global NGO Technology Report :: Download. Published by Infoxchange (Australia & New Zealand). For Nonprofits Worldwide: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

. • These publisher agreements have also included permissions to distribute books outside the United States: most frequently, we are provided global rights. Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2019

2018 Global NGO Technology Report :: Download. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live. 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report :: Download. Global Landscape of Philanthropy Report 2018 :: Download. Australia Giving Report 2019 :: Download. Published by Infoxchange (Australia & New Zealand).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

For nonprofits with a global audience, this is a long-time needed functionality for Facebook Pages. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived. In this post, I'll share our thoughts on what should be done next.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

We are grateful to the 3,573 people who have taken the 2018 Global Trends In Giving Survey thus far. This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. Australia 2.9%. are female.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 17, 2015

First, “NGO” is an acronym meaning “non-governmental organization” whereas “ONG” means “non-governmental organization” in countries where a romance language is spoken i.e., Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We researched over 3,000 individuals across the UK and Ireland; Canada; and Australia and New Zealand to determine how charitable support differs between generations. One fifth of participants globally shared that volunteering is the best way for them to make a difference. These generational differences are evident globally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. Dulingo :: duolingo.com. LastPass :: lastpass.com.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. I’ll decode that slightly wonky language below. What did we do? Read on for our review of the last six months. There will be gossip, numbers and a few bad jokes along the way to keep you from getting drowsy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. In our analyses, which is in Canada, States, and in Australia, and Europe, people, when they become a monthly donor, were 7 to 20 times more money because they don’t drop off your programs at the rate that your single gift donors do.

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