Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 23, 2007
We just got terrific coverage from CBS Evening News of our Bookshare.org project. It is really exciting when a news team takes the time to dig in and understand the story. Our team is thrilled about the piece, and we're getting lots of phone calls and email as a result. I think this is the first time we have had national coverage of Bookshare.org, which turned five years old this week!
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. I’ll spare you the details. It’s truly a practice in patience to live without a computer. Work doesn’t get done. Blog entries don’t get written.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. Later today I'm doing a Webinar, a briefing on Web2.0 tools for the good folks at NCNA. I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Both require me to let go of old ways. That's a hard thing to do. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these ne
Forum One
FEBRUARY 25, 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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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
You were all so helpful with posting your favorite nonprofit blogs to help me prepare for a talk I'll be giving at the Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits sponsored by the United Way of Kern County that I thought I'd ask for your ideas again! I will also be talking with students in a marketing class at The New College of California's Green MBA program about how nonprofits and green businesses are using the social web for marketing.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2007
Second Life, the on-line parallel universe, is a controversial topic. Some folks are fanatical about it, and it's touching a lot of real world places. I was wandering by Second Life interviews onsite at Davos. At the same time, I have heard that it is overhyped and that the number of participants is exaggerated. But, hearing something like the following story makes me feel good about Linden Labs, the folks that operated Second Life.
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. Currently, he's blogging about his Web Office experiment which is well worth following. I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service !
Forum One
FEBRUARY 23, 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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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
"What was most alarming about creating "A Drop of Life" is that it began as a pure fiction, and as I began to do my research, I began to realize that the sci-fi [water] meters that I had created, already existed in ten countries. Two thirds of the world will not have adequate access to water by the year 2027. Just twenty years from now. Your right to quench your thirst could depend on how much money you have in your pocket.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
Jerome Groopman is a physician who frequently writes on medical topics for the New Yorker. His stuff is always fascinating. A few issues back, they ran a piece of his called What's the Problem , where he looked at the heuristics , or rules of thumb , that physicians use when making a diagnosis. And at certain recognizable errors doctors make that lead to incorrect conclusions about a patient's ailment.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
One of our employees suddenly passed away from natural causes, and we are all very sad here. I sent the following note to the Bookshare.org members and volunteers and received many, many emails expressing condolences and dismay. To the Bookshare.org community: It is with great regret and sorrow that I inform you that Gustavo Galindo passed away suddenly Sunday.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Photo in flickr - Letting Go. I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." The description is: Public broadcasting isn't the only industry that's exploring the role of social media in their work. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 at an amazing pace, and some of their experiences can serve as valuable lessons for what we may want to develop as w
Forum One
FEBRUARY 8, 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.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
If someone asked you, and ten other contestants, to come up with the most creative way to, " take a given amount of money and other resources and multiply them before giving them away to help others ," would you win? That is the premise of Oprah's new reality show, "The Big Give." You have until February 23rd to send Oprah a 3-minute tape explaining why you should be on the show.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2007
A number of my clients have asked me recently if they need to be worried about the early change to daylight savings time this year. You remember, don't you: clocks get rolled forward on March 11th this year as the new law lengthening Daylight Saving Time takes effect. Here's the deal: The Windows operating system assumes it knows when to start Daylight Savings Time in the United States.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 11, 2007
Our new environmental project management software, Miradi , just went into its beta testing. Our core beta testers are drawn from the Conservation Measures Partnership , coalition of the leading biodiversity groups (such as The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WCS). I thought that meant a small beta test, but it turns out that we already have testers registered from 16 different countries on 6 different continents!
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 25, 2007
This weekend, I visited the New York Hall of Science. We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 million scientific papers grouped into scientific paradigms. Next, we wanted to see “Connections,” an exhibition on networks. We looked at the museum map on the wall. It had considerably fewer than 1.3 million nodes.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Here's an example of "social search" in action. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. I'm summarizing the parts I found interesting: The give us some numbers of tagging, although since it is the first time they have asked about tagging there is not data to determine whether tagging is increasing or not.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 8, 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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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 16, 2007
The January/February issue of Colorlines has named ibrahim abdul-matin, the Technology Organizer for the Movement Strategy Center, as an Innovator of 2007. Thirty-year-old matin is helping to develop a new social networking site for youth activists, MyBLOC.Net. From the article: Aside from a new place to post your profile, myBLOC.net is set up to host self-selecting groups, create alumni circles to provide long-term connection between participants at a training or conference and individually tai
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
I don't usually pay much attention to the Grammys, but there was so much reason to this year. National attention was focused on the resounding show of support for the Dixie Chicks and their right to speak their mind those many months ago about the president and his war. The endless stream of "bests" was clearly political - but quite gratifying. Nonetheless, I wouldn't have minded if they had lost in just one category - Best Country Vocal Performance by a Group or Duo: my friends in The Duhks wer
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2007
It's great when one of our team is honored for their work, and Carrie Karnos has been one of our top Bookshare.org volunteers for years, including being Volunteer of the Year. Carrie just received the James H. Veale Humanitarian Award for service to the blind community. Congratulations, Carrie! Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. 21, 2006 Dear Readers: Last September I as
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 7, 2007
I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. Okay, pop quiz. You're developing a heavily themed exhibition. The scenic contractors need to know what a "degraded plaster" wall finish means to you. Your boss is in California picking out antique fountains. The framers need a reference for the curved arch. Five stakeholders in different cities want to see the work that's been done so far.
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