Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2005

We're hiring! Benetech is in growth mode, and we're hiring for three positions right now. I'm seeking a new CTO to help grow Benetech's project portfolio and our engineering team, and to help me handle the incredible range of opportunities Benetech has for changing the world. Bookshare.org needs a dynamic person to manage and drive the expansion of our collection, managing both automated and volunteer processes to bring more books to more people with disabilities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

While checking my links in Technorati last month, I came across a link from a blog named "Darkstar.org" and wasn't sure who it was. After a little digging, I figured it out was Carnet Williams! So, I tracked him down for an interview. 1. You've been in the nonprofit technology space for a long time. I remember reading your posts in the early days of Rider's list and finally meeting you back in 2001.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 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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DECEMBER 2, 2005

I am participating in my first Nonprofit Blog Exchange set up by the fabulous Emily. I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. Daniel's blog was recommended to me through a great list serv for anyone interested in volunteers and volunteer program managment, Cybervpm at Yahoo!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2005

I am proud to be affiliated with the Social Enterprise Alliance, a group that works to advance the cause of people who run enterprises with a social mission. Early bird registration has just started for the Seventh Gathering, the annual meeting of the Alliance. It will be held in Atlanta in early March, and I will definitely be there!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

Recently we asked for some of the thousands of people with disabilities using Bookshare.org to share how it has helped them. These thoughts from Chancey Fleet were particularly eloquent and I wanted to share it with you all. For most students, the freshman year of college is a time for discovering intellectual strength, getting behind a cause or two, and exchanging rapid-fire theories on life, the universe and everything at 3 AM when you should be writing the paper that's due at 9.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. It was fascinating for me, as I realize this is yet another vibrant and growing community of social enterprises. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Common threads included: - Volunteers contributing to the creation of the software, generally organized around a meritocracy - Corporate support in the form of explicit sponsorships and/or paying corpo

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Benetech helps drive indictment of a former dictator. Our team has contributed critical information that has helped Human Rights Watch with its campaign to bring the former dictator of Chad to justice. This is a great example of the power of information technology to advance the cause of victims of gross human rights abuses. On September 27, 2005 a Belgian judge issued an international arrest warrant charging Hissène Habré with atrocities during his 1982-90 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2005

(Click on the image to view the animation). If I was in Germany this summer, I'd go see this exhibition at Kunsthalle D??sseldorf. For now, will just have to view the animations available on the web like the Keith Haring book above. Here's an excerpt of the exhibition description : A flip book is a book that becomes a cinema for a short space of time; it is a sequence of images that reveals its narrative as you look at it, an object that you have to touch in order to get it to tell its story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. What does the nonprofit blogosphere look like? It???s a fairly small niche, but a vibrant and rich one -- hopefully growing.! There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2005

One of my personal resolutions for 2006 is to be less sloppy with tagging and organize my rss feeds. I use newsgator for my Cambodian feeds and wanted to consolidate and organize in bloglines. So, had to figure out if there was a way to export them from newsgator and import into bloglines. You have to save the "OPML" file from program onto your hardrive and then upload/import it into the other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 MoveOn Ever Spent: Flickr via Jon Stahl. The article describes how MoveOn is experimenting with flickr, believed to be the first political campaign to make use of flickr. The article points out that adhoc groups have formed on flickr to support photo sharing and organizing around political topics, but MoveOn's use of flickr is on a larger sca

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

Nancy White has some mindmaps up for the Technology for Communities report she is working on. She is using flickr to share and get feedback via the comments feature in flickr. She has also shared how she is tracking the resources she finds in delicious using the tags below. And, if you're really interested in learning more about some of these tools, cpsquare is holding a Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice Conference beginning next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

I really should be finishing up moving over my files, configurations, and last couple of software programs, but I started woolgathering instead. I found an article called " Ten Bloglines Hacks." There's a great hack to add "tag in delicious" instead of a clipping file and a pointer to a windows blogging client called elicit that I must compare with ecto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Imagine a software conga-line with floppies and CD-ROM's snaking around the computer and waving little hands. That is what's happening here today after wiping the hard drive and re-installing the operating system on the computer. Now I'm in the process of getting my software on and reorganizing god knows how many gigs of data that I've ported over from my old computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

Meet Zarah Jane Almeida who works as a producer for Mlup Baitong's Environmental Advocacy Radio Program. She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. Born in Roxas City, known as the seafood capital of the Philippines, she graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in mass communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link]. I couldn't find anyplace on the site defined what a software bounty is, but assuming from the listings it means getting paid for coding as opposed to coding for coding's sake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 25, 2005

Via Dina Mehta come an announcement about Remembrance Week. The WorldWideHelp Group would like you to join us in Remembrance Week. It's designed to remember the one-year anniversary of the Tsunami as well as the other major disasters that stroke our world during the year. They want to use the energy and power of the online community that came to together to help people impacted by these disasters and remind us that people are still suffering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Okay, I can't help but think about the famous Australian line, "Now that's a knife." Mal Booth, Head of Research Centre, at the Australian War Memorial Museum comes word of museum podcasting from down under. We've just ventured out for the first time into podcasting. These are designed to accompany a 'treasure trail' in our museum over summer (in the southern hemisphere).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Here's a collection of group creative problem-solving techniques catalogued by UK consultant Martin Leith. Some of these might be appropriate for small group activities in a training for brainstorming new ideas related to the topic of the training. Here's a classic - brainstorming on post-it notes. Leith also has another site about large group intervention methods , including a description for open-space technology approach.

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