Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 30, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Mission Statement August 30, 2007 I have not at all been tempted by the 31 days to a better blog challenge. Not because I don’t want my blog to be better, it’s just that I don’t have the time right now.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 26, 2007
My eldest son, Jimmy, and I were able to attend a portion of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University last week. We were able to hear the elevator pitches of more than a dozen social entrepreneurs from literally all over the world. Oh, and Jimmy's 21 now so we can drink beer together in a public place! Jimmy's quite interested in social entrepreneurship.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 4, 2007
Heading down the home stretch. but wanted to share a few learnings re: personal fundraising. For this campaign, I haven't sent out any "email blasts" - except for one to the video blogging community list. This campaign is mostly being run off of my blog, personal emails, a little Facebook and mostly Twitter. Twitter as a fundraising tool?!?
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AUGUST 23, 2007
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman AUG 23, 2007 Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 30, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently. That is actually one of the things I’m going to try and change – to set up to do a post every weekday.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 25, 2007
Social capital formation is a hot topic for me. I want to see us have the same kind of positive environment for social ventures as we have in Silicon Valley for high tech ventures (but they have to make a lot of money), where great social ventures are rewarded with better and lower cost capital. An under-used tool for foundations is the program-related investment (PRI).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2007
Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. I've been busy trying to cram over 150 tech shirts into a suitcase to take to Cambodia so I missed this one. So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Facebook has been taking down organizational profiles for nonprofits, including Ranger Rick's profile. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.
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AUGUST 31, 2007
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman AUG 31, 2007 Katrina – Two Years Later Continuing with the theme of seeing is believing… Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush stood in New Orleans and said that we were about
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Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 27, 2007
Did you know that as of this writing, Hilary Clinton has raised $63,075,926, Barack Obama has raised $58,913,134 and Mitt Romney has raised $44,432,349? Mike Gravel, on the other hand, has raised $238,744. You can see and share these astounding figures with MAPLight's Presidential Fundraising Widget , which can be placed on your blog or web site. In addition to launching the widget, MAPLight.org has published an API (application programming interface) that makes it easy for any Web developer to
Forum One
AUGUST 20, 2007
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.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 24, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#. Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ra
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 20, 2007
The Benetech team read with great interest the recent Op-Ed in The New York Times, entitled An Atrocity That Needs No Exaggeration. The Op-Ed notes the recent ruling in Britain against the Save Darfur Coalition for overstating the number of dead in Darfur. Britain's Advertising Standards Authority found that Save Darfur's estimate of 400,000 killed in the conflict is based on flawed research.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 29, 2007
Click To Play. Meet Virak , Phnom Penh Geek, and a member of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit team. Yesterday, I taught him how to use the video cameras and he made his first video blog post. It is here. We have two other cameras to give. Virak has promised to blog about what he is learning about video blogging in Cambodia. The major challenge is the Internet connection is slow.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
AUGUST 28, 2007
Is your organization getting ready to think about its software requirements? Sometimes when organizations approach us about their software needs, we are struck by how poorly they have thought out what it is they are looking for. We cannot even guess from their few pages of notes what major pieces of functionality they are seeking, or why they are seeking a new system.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 28, 2007
Soha El-Borno of Wild Apricot tagged me to participate in the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme. I think I've done this before so if you've been reading here for awhile, I'm probably repeating myself. First the rules : 1 ) Post these rules before you give your facts 2) List 8 random facts about yourself 3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them 4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they've been tagged Then the facts: 1.
Forum One
AUGUST 14, 2007
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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 23, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free software and sustainable computing August 23, 2007 I remember in the late 90s, in the heady days of getting organizations up to speed with technology, I would suggest to organizations that they add in their budget replacing 1/4 to 1/3 of their computers each year (instead of the much more common practice of replacing them all at once every 5 or 10 years when a
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 19, 2007
One of my big themes is how social applications of technology lag behind business applications by years (if not decades!). One recent example was the article in USA Today, Cassettes linger long after expected demise. One of the main remaining uses of cassettes is: accessible books for the blind. It's hard to switch technologies once you have invested in them, especially in a field where the payback times are long or potentially forever.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2007
Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. But, I manage to optimize some photos from my arrival and last night's dinner with the Clogger Team. So, if you want to follow me - best to click through the flickr stream.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
AUGUST 22, 2007
One of the more common uses I see my friends making of Twitter is to post a link to an interesting web-based resource. Since the one-line nature of the Twitter post limits the amount of effort that can go into polishing these "miniblogs", I'm getting a virtual hailstorm of information this way. And then there are all the articles, blogs, and videos that my Facebook contacts post every day.
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Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 25, 2007
I ran out of handouts yesterday during my talk about do good blogging at the Writing for Change Conference, and said I'd post the handout up here today. It's just a sampler of do good bloggers (please don't be sad if I didn't include you, it's a sampler ), links to blog search engines, links to blog feed readers, and links to blog software platforms.
Forum One
AUGUST 13, 2007
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.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 21, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The more things change … August 21, 2007 One of the great things about the nonprofit technology community is that the community, on the whole, has a great respect for women, in whatever roles we play – whether it be geeky not.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 12, 2007
I just got back from a short jaunt to the University of Washington in Seattle. Not only is it the school my son Andy attends (beam, beam), but it is also a hotbed of activity around advancing people with disabilities. My long-time friend Professor Mari Ostendorf (who was a grad student with me at Stanford) was running a summer research program for engineering students with disabilities.
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