Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 18, 2005
Watching policeman rough up a taxi driver. Second and final delayed blog posting from Tunis. Original post from Nov 18, 2005: The WSIS Summit continues to be fascinating. In a recent post, I alluded to human rights activists getting beat up. Yesterday I had a personal experience with the police presence. I took a taxi back to the conference after a brief visit to Carthage for lunch.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2005
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin. RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above. It's described as: HangingTogether is a place where some of the staff at RLG, a membership organization of libraries, archives, and museums, can talk about the
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Forum One
NOVEMBER 30, 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.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 30, 2005
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, low key, lots of food, but Christmas kinda stresses me out. Every year I tell myself that I won't buy into the hype. I won't feel like I have to prove how much I love my family and friends with something I give them on December 25th. I went to an acupuncturist a long time ago who told me that Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve fall at the wrong time of year.
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NOVEMBER 19, 2005
Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Not yet. And you can't really read three or four of them while waiting to order your latte. And I've been dying to start really using my wiki for something.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 16, 2005
Tunisia is very interesting this week! The WSIS conference is going on, human rights activists are getting beaten up, and we're talking about how information technology can help build a better world. I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities. It went well: many passionate and interesting people from the disabilities movement are here and we are definitely brainstorming ways to join our efforts.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 23, 2005
S ocial T erminology E nhancement through V ernacular E ngagement. Read the article by Jennifer Trant and David Berman in D-Lib. Steve is mentioned in an recent C-NET article. Jennifer Trant is working on her PhD in the Faculty of Information Studies @ Uof T. She has worked in museum informatics for many years, including 10 as co-chair of Museums and the Web.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 30, 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.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 26, 2005
Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. The 10-day summer camp in Ben Lomond, CA offers dance, poetry, hip-hop, spoken word, singing, drumming and giant puppetry workshops mixed in with education about social and political issues. Most of the participants are between the ages of 17-25, working class and youth of color.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2005
One of the advantages of good software is that it enables an organization to manage a great deal of organizational complexity. But there is a sort of misguided complexity I'm concerned about, complexity whose cost outweighs its benefits. We've been at this business for over 15 years, and in that time computers have become ever more central to organizational life.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 10, 2005
The Tech Awards yesterday were a blast. The Mercury News ran a great story and quoted Peggy Gibbs, one of our execs: Old problems, new solutions : The Tech Museum Awards also provide a venue for many local foundations and non-profits to seek out new ideas and partners. "One of the reasons we're here is to make sure we're continuously collaborating," said Peggy Gibbs, vice president of business development for Benetech, a Palo Alto non-profit that looks for ways technology can help solve the prob
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 1, 2005
Thursday is World Usability Day, and I'll be giving a on-line session entitled Technology Social Entrepreneurship and Accessibility of Web Services at 20:10 GMT, or 12:10pm PST. I never have done such an event, so I'm looking forward to trying it out!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 21, 2005
On most mornings, I try to get my exercise done in the morning, a five mile run or spinning. Just so it doesn't get boring, I take my Ipod along and listen to music or podcasts. This morning I missed out on my run, but this week's show over at 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals, had arrived and I simply could not wait until tommorrow.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2005
Click here to download video. My daughter is 4 and in her pre-school is a computer. I've been lingering a little at drop off to observe how she interacts with her peers at the computer. It struck me how gender inequities start an early age. I thought that with some intervention we might avoid some problems for my daughter down the road should she wish to pursue technology.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 20, 2005
Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders are editing an anthology of essays titled "She is Such a Geek," an Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books, Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution. They are looking for submissions of essays. Here are the details on how to submit your essay. Technorati Tags: webjustice2.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2005
Lisa Stone's recent post on the Blogher Blog, " True or False: Do "women warm the podcast bench? " responds to Steve Friess' report for Wired News on the lack of a presence of women at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference. Lisa writes: What worries me is that just because women didn't show up on that radar at podcasting's inaugural conference doesn't mean we aren't podcasting.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2005
Source: Global s Online, Rebecca MacKinnon. From a post on Global s, Rebecca MacKinnon writes "These guys are basically the dream geek team for free speech on line. They gave instructions in detail about how non-governmental organizations, human rights groups, and individuals trying to speak the truth under dangerous circumstances can secure their communications and data, and minimize the likelihood that people will get caught or arrested as a result of their work.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2005
I'm also a paper artist. I create art with paper. My tools include pens, ink, rivets, glue, ribbon, and many other objects. I explore techniques as diverse as orgami to stamping. As people who know me well, greeting cards are always handmade. I've also played with the idea of computer arts & crafts -- integrating digital and handmade art. For example, using a rubber stamp to create an image, scan it, and manipulate it and then use it as part of a paper collage.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2005
This is my "virtual" colleague Joistke Hulsebosch. We've never met face-to-face, but we have many similar interests. We "met" when we both took the incredible Nancy White 's Online Facilitation Workshop. In addition to the workshop curriculum, we were encouraged to explore our own inquiry questions. Mine included: How can blogs play a role in online community building?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2005
I stumbled upon that logo today.and it was actually the third click in a row that where I saw the word "mistake." Last night Corey asked me a great question. "What a mantra that you often say to motivate yourself?" I've always said, "Mistakes are our best teachers." Many times people become mistake phobic and a mistake becomes a point of shame.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2005
I've been looking for some how-to guides for mini-documentaries that would cover some of the asethetics, planning, and process as well as the technical parts. I came across the FourDocs Guides via Nonprofit Online News. A lot of what is here could be adapted for vlogging if you wanted to create "vlogumentaries." I loved the " Start Thinking " guide that teaches how to structure, subject, and style.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2005
I can make better choices chair Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Marnie Webb asks "Why don???t we think mistakes are a part of excellence? I think in our culture we tend to view someone who has made a mistake as being "dumb." Maybe it has something to do with our upbringing or our educational experience. We were not taught at an early age that "reflection" is a good thing, let alone how to do it.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2005
I met some of the "Mommybloggers" at blogher. and more recently they launched a site called, what else, Mommybloggers. The goal "is to expose the diversity of the writers who commonly fall under the label "mommyblogger. We will feature women who will share how their experiences in motherhood effect the many various aspects of her life in humorous, supportive and informative ways.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2005
WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.
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