Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

Orphan works article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian News. I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with. Tim O'Reilly (who has been hugely helpful to us and especially Bookshare.org) published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Authors Guild suing Google's Library project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

Make a donation to help Katrina's victims. Networked for Good. Red Cross. America's Second Harvest. Humane Society of the US. ASPCA. Also, check out the TLB's Blog Relief Campaign.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

Software Engineering texts often talk about “extracting requirements” from users. The dental analogy is painful. The implication is that the requirements are all right there - - but the users are oddly incapable of just spitting them out. A tray full of nasty-looking instruments will be necessary to grab onto them and yank. I'll tell you a story.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

These animated political cartoons by Mark Fiore, www.markfiore.com, made my day yesterday: Find the Terrorist in Your Neighborhood Oh Yeah, That!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

Sometimes I like to update people on my travels. I've got a lot of trips planned for the next few months, and sometimes these blogs lead to people getting in touch with me about ideas for action! Right now, I'm in Kyoto, Japan, to speak at the Science and Technology in Society forum (STS). It's an interesting and high powered group, and I'm looking forward to talking about Security and Privacy of Information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

There are nice occasions where something humorous makes an important point. This presentation entitled Escape from CAPTCHA has a funny slide that captures the inaccessibility of many schemes used on web pages to keep out robot programs by requiring a human to enter obscured text. Thanks to Ivo Pletikosic for the link!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2005

The MacArthur Foundation just published a nice article on Benetech's human rights program in their latest newsletter. The Foundation has been a steady supporter of our work in the human rights field, and recently renewed that commitment with a three year, $800,000 grant to Benetech. Our human rights program is meeting its sustainability plan thanks to support from people like MacArthur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Charlene Li writes about the potential of Google Talk to generate searchable conversations. Imagine if you were using audio in asychronous way in a forum - audio as dialogue - imagine how easy that would make it to scan the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology. Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Barry???s Blog??? the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The press release says: Modeled on PBS???s McLaughlin Group , this blog will draw on the participation of 14 leaders in the arts to debate key policy issues and developments in the arts and culture sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

I've been very busy this week taking a fantastic online workshop on online facilitation from Nancy White at Full Circle. We had just finished an online chat where Nancy modeled some protocols for faciliating a large group chat where we discussed some interesting questions about the challenges of moderating chat with international participants when. I noticed one of the Cambodian bloggers, Wanna , had logged on to Yahoo IM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2005

I am participating in the nonprofit blog exchange, an idea hatched by Deborah Finn and being executed by Emily of Emily's World. Last week, I received an email telling me that I had been matched with queensland positive people. (I have no idea who was matched with my blog.). The simple instructions were: The entry must mention the blog in some way and include the link to the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

For some people in Cambodia, the devastating impact of flood waters is well known. The drawing above, titled "I hate the Flood" was done by a young girl who lived in my daughter's orphanage in October 2000. The Sharing Foundation raised $9,600 in donations for relief and rebuilding efforts. (And, relief was gotten to these suffering Cambodians much faster than to the people in New Orleans).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

A late evening or rather early morning request came in from Nancy White about Katrina tags. (I was sleeping). I awoke to find that Alexandra Samuel has put together an incredible post summarizing everything you need to know about Katrina tagging. Here's the blog post. And, here's the wiki version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

Chuck Patch , Director of Systems at Historic New Orleans Collection, and has been the leader of the Museums Computer Network group. He recent post to the list was: "Chuck Patch is not dead!" He is in Philadelphia! Another colleague posted that he had already known Chuck was okay because googled him and found information about his organization via a museum's database supplier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2005

From David Geilhufe at Social Source Software. FINAL REFUGEE DATA EXCHANGE SPEC. Refugees can go to 20 different websites to find information on their loved ones. We are publishing a spec to facilitate data interchange among sites and that would allow the creation of a central database of most refugee databases on the web. We are also connecting database owners with volunteer programmers that can help implementing the spec.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2005

Technology for all has the ctc set up in the Astrodome in Houston and you can read first hand accounts about their excellent work here. I made a donation to them - if you want to support them, you can make a donation online here. The internet connection is important for people to help locate missing loved ones as well as to get to the next phase - a new life, home, work, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

I'm baack from vacation. and digging out from a flood of emails, comments, unread posts in my reader, etc -- and it looks like I'm not the only blogger with insomia related to Katrina. Andy Carvin has created Katrina Aftermath Blog and has declared September 2: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. Here's Andy's instructions on how to participate: If you have a blog, here's what you can do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

After watching some of the coverage on CCN tonight, it is difficult to sleep viewing the horrors. But, I learned via Andy Carvin's blog an effort that I want to contribute something to -- Internet Access for Astrodome Refugees is being coordinated by Technology For All in Houston. They have a donation page on their site and you write in the comments if you want to direct your support to this effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2005

I was happy to discover that my new camera, a Canon PowerShot SD300, has a macro option. So, I spent some time on vacation learning how to do close up shots.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2005

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

Audioacrobat is another tool to put audio on the Internet using your phone. It also has some other features too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2005

Ed Batista posted an excellent list of online resources and blogs about Katrina, including The Interdictor

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