Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2005

My next piece for BBC News was published today as their Davos Diary 'Enlightened self interest'. I was luck enough to be chosen as the Davos attendee asked to provide diary entries. My third and last one should be out early next week as a wrap up on my Davos experience. Here's the text of my piece from the article (looks nicer on the BBC site, though!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2005

What is an "@rt sparker?" According to the @rt Room , it is an idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination. It is a snow day and with two young children at home, we need something to do after the snow man is finished and we have painted in the snow. Great - artist books for kids - we made a book out of a paper bag.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 31, 2005

Well, this is the week I decided to take a look at Google's other offerings. all the other places besides the SEARCH where they can get Adwords in front of you. I've just started this account on Blogger, as you can see, but I've also been playing with Gmail, Picassa, and their SiteSearch service. The week got rolling when Ansley Berrones sent me an invitation to gmail.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2005

My second day at the WEF, and I'm blogging on the WEF's site and writing my pieces for the BBC. Communications overload. Here's a link to my latest WEF blog, on the Social Investing session.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2005

I am heading off to Davos for my third World Economic Forum meeting. I have been tapped to write for the BBC website as well as a guest blogger for the Forum. So, expect my posts on the BeneBlog to be a little more frequent as I post these. Here's my first Forumblog.org post: Packing up. I've inserted it below: Just packing my bags and getting ready to head Davos-ward.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 16, 2005

Great events at Bookshare.org! We just hit 20,000 titles on our electronic book library for people with print disabilities. We are delivering more and more books that meet the literacy needs of our users, by providing the latest bestsellers, textbooks and daily newspapers into accessible form. Another great piece of news is that Janice Carter has joined Benetech as our Director of Literacy Programs, and is now general manager of Bookshare.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 10, 2005

The end of the year is always exciting, and 2004 was no exception. One of our Bookshare.org users, Jay Leventhal, contacted me about making a donation at the end of the year. Jay was particularly interested in making the search capabilities of Bookshare.org better than our existing simple author or title searches. This is something we have been wanting to do for a long time: something more like the advanced search of Google or Amazon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2005

I am happy to report that I met with the product manager for Google Print/Google Library and a couple of people from their accessibility team recently. They are very interested in understanding the access issues around their projects, and we'll be working on providing them with more information about possible solutions. While it's premature to discuss any commitments or solutions (and Google would need to consult with their content partners on any changes), I was pleased about the level of engag

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2005

Benetech's Patrick Ball was on National Public Radio's Morning Edition show today in a piece entitled Uncertainty the Rule in Gauging Deaths from Tsunami. Patrick's main point was that getting a precise number of those lost in the tsunami was less important than working on aiding the survivors. This contrasts with Patrick's work in political violence, where assessing the numbers and patterns of human rights violations is important for accountability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2005

My first article for the BBC is already up: Davos diary: This is not about money. Be sure to give it a read!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 1, 2005

I'm the founder of Members Only Software, Inc - a provider of software to think tanks, professional societies, YMCAs, service and advocacy groups, and trade associations. Friend me in Facebook Find me in LinkedIn get vcard Email me I've worked directly for a number of non-profit groups and community agencies over the years as well. Working for the Berkeley Community Health Project in Berkeley California for three years in the seventies was a crucial formative experience for me.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 1, 2005

This blog is a chapter in the web-wide discussion of non-profit technology issues. How does this discussion differ from those on other blogs in the non-profit space? I'd like to try to keep my focus mainly on the bread-and-buter issues that confront my consulting and software clients on a daily basis. We'll talk about prosaic stuff like Membership Management, Meetings and Events Management and Fundraising, broader ideas like security and software project management, and the social, cultural, and

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