Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

Watch the video clip At the recent Demographics via Candid launch event , Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green opened with a powerhouse keynote, followed by Ann Mei and Anna Koob, senior research lead at Candid, to further set the stage with details on the initiative and the demographic data Candid collects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. First Globally Unique IDs Are Issued.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Not only do those mental models not apply, but they also become a liability in a changed world. Second, decades of digital disruption have brought us to an increasingly complex and interdependent global economy where the simple models of the past have less and less relevance every day. Ask open ended questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Many forces have exacerbated the need for nonprofits to shift their focus to employee well-being, including the global pandemic, economic uncertainty, the wealth gap and racial injustice. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the demand for eLearning continues to soar, with the global market projected to reach a staggering $848.12 Characteristics of synchronous eLearning include immediate feedback, collaboration opportunities, and structured schedules. billion by 2030.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the demand for eLearning continues to soar, with the global market projected to reach a staggering $848.12 Characteristics of synchronous eLearning include immediate feedback, collaboration opportunities, and structured schedules. billion by 2030.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the demand for eLearning continues to soar, with the global market projected to reach a staggering $848.12 Characteristics of synchronous eLearning include immediate feedback, collaboration opportunities, and structured schedules. billion by 2030.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. Very important - we intend the pilot to provide an initial demonstration of these Global Development Commons principles: (See www.developmentcommons.org ). Let us know!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Inovo is a global consulting firm that helps purpose-driven leaders with innovative and profitable business models to pursue social change. Now more than ever, the cross-sector collaboration between nonprofits and corporations will be critical to scaling, innovating, and ensuring sustainable impact for generations to come.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It involves creating a forum where wide and varied stakeholders can share and learn together in an open, transparent way. And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started. An journey like this opens doors to new partnerships, relationships, and networks in a unique way.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s See Thomas Friedman? s vision for GEO is

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

And now that things are starting to open back up, expect more hybrid events, or p artially in-person events. When building your event marketing strategy, keep in mind that there are several advantages to hosting an online component at your physical event, including: Greater reach by tapping into potentially global markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

And now that things are starting to open back up, expect more hybrid events, or p artially in-person events. When building your event marketing strategy, keep in mind that there are several advantages to hosting an online component at your physical event, including: Greater reach by tapping into potentially global markets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The following topics will be investigated during the residency, and a workshop will be run by the artists at the Summit, based on the following themes: Different working modes: how do artists work with open content in their medium? Sustainability models: how do artists embrace ???copyleft??? copyleft??? s name to the iCommons wiki.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

That’s especially true coming off of a year defined by a global pandemic, social justice movements, and a tense presidential election. Join Krista, Libby, Lisa and many more inspirational speakers at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions for sessions dedicated to nonprofit wellbeing and resilience. Get Registered Now for Free.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Come by the TechSoup Global booth in the expo area for Office Hours with me! I’ll be presenting the slides below: Local is the new Global.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. copyright law.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In this comparison, we’ve reviewed some of the top tools on the market, evaluating them based on ease of use, support for complex content, collaboration features, pricing, and more. Pricing Model The pricing model describes whether a tool offers a subscription, one-time purchase, or custom pricing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. or Code for Oakland ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Note from Beth: As part of the research for our book, Allison Fine and I are looking at transparency and openness what it means for the way nonprofits do their work. Over the past few months, you could view the development of the strategy on their wiki , most of the work was done on a wiki that was open for anyone to read. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2020

W e successfully hosted our first fully virtual and truly global conference , bbcon 2020. To aid COVID-19 vaccine research , institutions bypassed guidelines or proprietary processes for sharing research to best support the collaborative efforts to produce a vaccine. . Emerging Tech Trends . Changes in Fundraising Appeals .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Jerry talked one benefit of this connectedness and openness is innovation.

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