Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects. In addition to recruiting additional talent to our team in, we're also recruiting advisors and donors from the top echelons of the tech community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. If you, or someone you know, is working on a tech for social impact project, please encourage them to nominate their project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The changes around these housing units became more visceral for Geary when his father, who was developing a subdivision in San Juan Bautista south of San Jose, was mandated to include 15 ADUs in a neighborhood plan for 45 lots. The startup raised $3.5 A finished and installed Abodu home. Photo via Abodu.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

My job now at GlobalGiving is to make sure that everything we are doing, and everyone who is working on donor-facing activities (business development, marketing, tech) is organized in some sort of recognizable formation. I recently noticed that you had a project from New Orleans, can you tell me about it?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. The goal of the project, called ConnectSCC , is to come up with a sustainable model for a mobile plan for homeless and low income people. An Opportunity to Learn.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

communication, project management, and marketing. Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. Carly Severn, digital engagement associate at the San Francisco Ballet in San Francisco, CA.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. However, the San Jose-based nonprofit, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), had a hunch that cellphones might be a surprisingly good place to start getting employment and becoming self-sufficient. into the workplace.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. We held our first NetSquared Camp in China and co-organizer Matt Jung reports on innovative Chinese tech for good projects. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. At the Conference, project teams will have an opportunity to display and discuss their mashups, and attendees will vote to select the top three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. There wasn't much of a budget for technology and many of my co-workers weren't especially tech-savvy. It's amazing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. Although it started initially as a high school project, MathAndCoding is now a full-fledged program and a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. December is Human Rights Month, and it inspired some great work. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Employee Engagement.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. Bonus If you’re feeling excited about this, we’re sweetening the deal.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We call it a scrappy startup, and it mostly was a scrappy startup, but at one point, it was one of the most successful and fastest-growing tech companies in America and American business history. Just to be clear, the Android project at Google was an acquisition. That’s right. People were still covering it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Will this project thrive or fall flat?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. The Tech's system is barely better in what is provided , offering a glimpse into the actual exhibits you visited and the content (mostly photos) you took onsite.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Consider the experiments at the New World Symphony in Miami, where they are performing classical orchestral music for outdoor "wallcasts" that include projections and visual content. "Now" comes off as disingenuous and irrelevant if done wrong.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Its first green-lit project (after a temporary test track now under construction next to an abandoned mall in Richmond, Calif.) rail projects , topped by the Long Island Rail Roads East Side Access project in New York and its $3.5 Writes Jarrett Walker : They will have to build out a demo project before we know.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The chip giant’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) was held at the SAP Center in San Jose on Tuesday, and it wasyou guessed itall about AI. Nvidia indulged all your artificial intelligence fantasies on Tuesday at what was being called the Super Bowl of AI.

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Engadget

MARCH 11, 2025

The event is happening March 17-21 in San Jose, but you can also follow along with all the big developments here at Engadget. NVIDIA is also likely to share updates on its projects in automotive , robotics and quantum computing. NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference , also known as GTC, is coming up next week.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Nvidias Jensen Huang: The world got DeepSeek totally wrong At Nvidias GTC developer event in San Jose this week, CEO Jensen Huang called it AIs Super Bowl. Huang also updated Project Digits, a desktop AI platform for developers, researchers, and students. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

“That wasn’t my plan when I ran for office, I can assure you,” said Liccardo, the former mayor of San Jose. But he’s leaned in particularly hard with cryptocurrency-related projects that could significantly boost his personal wealth.

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