Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 27, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. This week, I asked the question: What is the biggest mistake a nonprofit can make with their website.
NetWits
JULY 31, 2008
You have probably heard lots about Web 2.0, but increasingly companies are using Web 2.0 to drive what is now being called “Customer Service 2.0”. Customer Service 2.0 is about using blogs, discussion boards, and all the latest social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. to monitor and stay in touch with customers to help uncover and resolve their issues.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 18, 2008
John Crossman (Benetech's Director of Engineering) and I attended an interesting and exciting Google Open Source talk on AxsJAX at Google this week, by Charles Chen (the developer of FireVox) and T.V. Raman (the developer of EMACSpeaks). They are tackling the challenge of making the richer Web more accessible. Since the web is now used for much more complicated things than simple static web pages, there have been many accessibility problems.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 9, 2008
(Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism. It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He was one of 27 individuals to win the first Knight News Challenge.
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JULY 7, 2008
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 30, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS. I love Holly’s approach to technology. Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green.
Forum One
JULY 31, 2008
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 17, 2008
I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 14, 2008
Flickr photo by Terry Bain. Terry / aXis / You Are a Dog / the book / the blog // We Are the Cat / the blog. I found Mashable's How To Develop a Social Media Plan in Five Easy Steps Via Britt Bravo who forwarded me this link. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 13, 2008
"That's the big take home. It's not just like, "Hey, make less trash, the trash guy did it," but find where meaning is for you, and believe that you can make a difference if you learn about yourself." -Ari Derfel Late last month I interviewed Ari Derfel, CEO and co-owner of Back to Earth, Inc. , about saving all of his trash for one year. Below is an edited transcript of our interview for the Big Vision Podcast.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 22, 2008
You'll love those lazy hazy crazy days of summer - those days of hot dogs and pretzels and beer. remember that old tune? I can remember listening to it on the radio as we drove to the Catskills in my Dad's old Dodge. But vacations are different now - everywhere I'm reading articles about how we Americans don't really get away from our work anymore when we go on holiday.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 25, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits July 25, 2008 Between the Connection Cafe , and the new name for their fundraising database: Common Ground (formerly known as Aikido,) I have to admit that I’m beginning to think of coffee, when I think of Convio.
Forum One
JULY 29, 2008
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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 7, 2008
Last year, the National Federation of the Blind took on Amazon.com about the accessibility of their website, which NFB felt at one time had been quite accessible, but which had declined in accessibility. My impression was that this advocacy was linked to the Target department store lawsuit, because Amazon does the technical work behind the Target website, which has been inaccessible.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 29, 2008
Congrats to Mazarine Treyz, Senior Development & Communications Officer, Urban League of Portland. She was the first one to contribute something to the WeAreMedia Module 5: Online Community Engagement Strategy and Skills. The question was : How do you get prepared for an online community? What questions do you need ask as part of your planning? The Brains On Fire blog tell us why it is so important to be prepared before you launch an online community effort: Online communities are popping up
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 30, 2008
When you're in charge of your office's fundraiser, you've got two goals to meet: 1. Raise the amount of money you've been assigned. 2. Not make your co-workers dread the sight of you. Your campaign needs to be fun and engaging, but also effective. Here are a handful of ideas to get you started: In her article, 10 Fun and Great Fund-Raising Ideas for Your Workplace , Josienita Borlongan says that having a Pink Ballerina Hippo Costume Fund-Raising Contest has been very successful for her.
Steve Bridger
JULY 31, 2008
Earlier this week I gave a talk to about forty Action Aid staff members on social media, subtitled “does it mean we have to change our jobs?&#. Thanks to Joanna Juber - the charity’s Digital Engagement Manager - for inviting me to speak on a range of topics I will be blogging about over the coming months. Fundamentally, how technological innovation has always necessitated institutional innovation and how charities need to learn to be agile (the technology won’t slow to their pa
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 14, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. I seem to spend inordinate amounts of time responding to people (proprietary software vendors, to be specific) harping on the idea that “open source software is free&# is a myth , and blathering on about how it’s not really free, because you have t
Forum One
JULY 23, 2008
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 5, 2008
There's so many cool things going on at Benetech. One of the coolest has been the reaction to our brand new environmental project management software, Miradi. Miradi is a great example of how technology can be used to more fully benefit humanity: now in the field of improving the environment! Miradi just launched and we're busy signing up users! I'm excited because it's another example of top-quality software created by our technical team in partnership with the conservation movement.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 27, 2008
If you have kids, you probably also read bedtime stories to them. In our house, we've read everything from Horton Hears a Who to Good Night Moon. Shel Silverstein 's The Giving Tree is also a popular request, despite the fact that it often makes me cry too. It is a story about a tree that gives everything to a young boy at every stage of his life. I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses).
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Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 16, 2008
David Bornstein's book, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, describes the qualities Ashoka looks for in the social entrepreneurs they support through their Fellowship program. The quality that stood out the most for me was Creativity. In the book, Bill Drayton, Ashoka's founder, says that social entrepreneurs need to have two kinds of creativity: • Goal-setting creativity , "the visionary seeing over the horizon to a different pattern in the field." • Proble
Steve Bridger
JULY 26, 2008
Summer returned yesterday and while on a family walk in the Walborough Nature Reserve at Uphill , I spotted this cow that had strayed from the herd. It reminded me of those Osborne billboards you see dotted about the countryside in Spain and Mexico (and probably many places besides).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 10, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct.
Forum One
JULY 10, 2008
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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