Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2006

I'm at the NetSquared Conference yesterday and today. Pretty exciting: this sort of thing would have been hard to imagine not so long ago! Our new CTO, Patrick Ball, was attending and spoke on human rights. Patrick occasionally injected his reality checks into the proceedings. I spoke on revenue models for socially motivated businesses, on a panel moderated by Vince Stehle (of Surdna Foundation) and with Clara Miller of NFF and Lee Davis of Nesst.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

My colleague, Michael Stein ("Internet Strategist and Author") who works with nonprofits, emailed me about a new Internet campaign Take Back Mother's Day for Peace that was recently launched by a Bay Area public grantmaking foundation, The Ploughshares Fund ( www.ploughshares.org ). (Ahem. hint, hint, hint -- this is a nice idea for Mother's Day).

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 31, 2006

So we just wrote a program here that really shows off the bang for the buck you get when applications provide you with an API. Microsoft Outlook, like other Office apps, has a great deal of its functionality exposed using Microsoft's ActiveX technology. And our Members Only app has a SOAP interface. So how hard can it be to write a pipe that connects the two?

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MAY 25, 2006

On Tuesday, May 30th at 4pm PDT, Micki Krimmel , the Director of Internet Outreach for Participant Productions , will be speaking about, "Media that Mobilizes: An Inconvenient Truth , ClimateCrisis and More Tales from Participate.net " as part of NetSquared's remote conference. I've written about the work that Participant Productions does a couple times here before.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 24, 2006

Bookshare.org Excitement Lots of great things happening with Bookshare.org. I just got back from Geneva, where I took advantage of being invited to the UBS Philanthropy Forum (very cool conference, maybe more later!) to discuss international Bookshare.org. I was able to meet with two key people from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as well as the head of the International Publisher's Association, Jens Bammel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2006

We thought we'd get the early bus -- we were up anyway from jetlag. Unfornately, the bus driver left us off at the wrong building. It was almost a mile or so down the road. We started walking and luckily David stopped and offered us a ride!

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. While many of these new apps are the inevitable "me too" calendar and wiki pages, a few of them, like GroupSharp , which hit her list just the other day, are beginning to demonstrate usable and flexible business functionality, the

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon. They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the gro

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2006

On Wednesday, May 10, the Guatemalan National Police Archives Project found a bottle filled with petrol in flames on their premises. It was apparently an attempt to intimidate the project to secure and preserve the estimated 48 million police records found by the Human Rights Ombudsman's office in 2005. Benetech's Human Rights Program is helping the Ombudsman's Office in Guatemala with the Archives Project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 10, 2006

Jonathan Peizer has been one of the most influential thinkers in my evolution with Benetech. Patrick Ball introduced us early in our transition to the new Benetech projects (Bookshare.org and Martus), and JP became our first funder of our Martus project through the Open Society Institute. His insights about technology in the social sector have been especially valuable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2006

Route 66 Literacy began its first beta at Community Association for Rehabilitation, Inc. (C·A·R) in January, here in Palo Alto, California. C·A·R is a nonprofit organization for children and adults with developmental disabilities (mental retardation, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, autism, and other neurodevelopmental conditions causing developmental delays) and other disabilities who live the Silicon Valley area.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2006

Asking the Wrong Questions Michael Gilbert is a fascinating observer of the application of technology to social objectives. I quite enjoyed a recent article of his looking at technocentric approaches to technology assessment. As a techie, I have to keep reminding myself of these issues!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2006

This post describes what good game designers do to "turn your brain on" or "cognitive arousal." Passionate Users Blo g has tweaked some gaming design rules to apply to NON-game experience. Which experiental pleasures does tagging give its users? Typology of Cognitive Pleasures. (in no particular order). 1. Discovery. User experience as exploration of new territory. 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

via Alex Barnett Blog. "From now on I???m going to call this idea the ???Del.icio.us Lesson??? This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We???re. seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even though we???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

from a post by Steve Eisner who writes a blog called A Social Life Some points for me: Defines two different types of tag behavior: Consuming Taggers : People who stalk other people's tags. Prefer to use their own vocabularly. Publishing Taggers: Haven an incentive to match their audiences' vocabularies. "At the same time, the network benefits of social bookmarking depend on enough publishers agreeing upon a common vocabulary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. This article will explore how tagging lets us connect with others. Rashimi also wrote another interesting essay entitled " A Cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

via Emily of Emily's World comes another example of nonprofit tagging. The organization is The Creative Coast Initiative and they appear to be using del.icio.us to organize resources to be published on their site. They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. The organization is "a public/private partnership responsible for attracting and growing brain-based businesses in Savannah.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. There is some interesting discussion threads taking place. Even if you're not attending in person, you may have some questions or observations to add. Some of the questions: Why some people love discovery aspect of tagging and others don't? How do we get past this debate to the point where we can set up some good learning experiments with the use of tagging for nonprofit organizations and reap some good lessons learned or practic

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

streetsign Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. The one thing I love about Nancy White is that she reminds me about the importance of playing and exploration -- even I don't have any time. Nonprofits don't have the time to explore and play, although it is recognized as important by some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

This article, " Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging " was recently updated and published on TechSoup. It morphs two different blog posts by nonprofit tagging thought leaders, Ruby Sinreich and Alexandra Samuel. These are excellent practical tips for choosing tags - either if you're doing this for your own personal information management or to use as a guide to help your organization come up with a tagging policy or at least some standard tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice Online Conference. The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Okay, when we talk about the "why" of tagging - we use two words - findability and discovery. I love the way Marnie Webb phrased it in this comment. "Discovery allows me to play. Wonder through tag streams and find related items in a way that helps me get at various topics in a much different way than search." On the other side, I have a colleagues who hate, no HATE , this part of the tagging experience and think it is a big fat waste of time.

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