Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Breakthrough Philanthropy event put on by Peter Thiel's foundation, covered in the local press with articles like "Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy" from the San Jose Mercury News. The foundation spotlighted eight unusual nonprofit groups.

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See3

MARCH 23, 2016

The post The See3 Team Talks Tech at 16NTEN in San Jose, CA appeared first on The See3 Blog. This week, we’re talking video and strategy at the Nonprofit Technology Network’s 16NTEN Conference. If you can't make it, be sure to join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag: #16NTC.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2004

Last week I was reading the Sunday paper (the San Jose Mercury News) and I saw a speech that Jeff Skoll gave upon receiving a major philanthropy award. It was great to read about the nice things he had to say about Benetech in his Commonwealth Club speech !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 18, 2006

Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R., in testing Route 66 and giving us lots of great feedback. We enjoy working with Benetech's funders, who share our passion for changing the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2007

We issued our first official press release about the award and immediately had a great article in the San Jose Mercury News. I think we've signed up more schools and students for Bookshare.org in the last three weeks than in the last three years! We're hiring like crazy: we have more than ten job openings posted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2005

The event was hosted in San Jose by the Community Foundation Silicon Valley. Last night I attended the premiere of The New Heroes, a PBS show on social entrepreneurs that airs in one week. Robert Redford, the host of the show, was there. He really gets social entrepreneurship, which is no surprise considering he founded Sundance.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Guest Post from Debbie McKenzie, Development Manager for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. . These days it seems everyone is looking for the daily deal. Groupon and LivingSocial deals work well for admissions and drive people in the door , but we have found that they do little to convert the visitor into a member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

but left my laptop power source in Massachusetts. luckily Santa Clara has stores that sell universal power adaptors that fit my laptop. I'm famous for forgetting to pack something important on every trip. Usually it is something cheap to acquire like a toothbrush. It could have been worse, could have left my laptop home.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. Bill Coleman, founder and chairman of BEA Systems of San Jose, and his wife Claudia, have backed the University of Colorado Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2007

My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business leaders are doing for Mom. What does this have to do with lobster? Not much, other than the fact that tomorrow is Mother's Day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

It's rare for me to drive further away than San Jose, San Francisco or Berkeley. So, I can pretty much count on being able to make a round-trip to these destinations when I'm not taking the train into San Francisco. And for me, it's turned out great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. The Extraordinaries has also been doing a good job of tracking nonprofit iPhone apps over at their blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Conference 2009 – O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 – 21, 2009, San Jose, CA – Check out the video and presentation slides, too! "Indians The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Conference 2009 - O’Reilly Conferences, May 19 - 21, 2009, San Jose, CA - Check out the video and presentation slides, too! "Indians The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall. As I am disabled, I have used several programs that Bookshare/Benetech provides for their consumers.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Where: San Jose, CA. Why we like it: beside the more than 70 Idea Labs, two Keynote speakers, Snap Learning sessions, and Ignite sessions, early risers will also love Sunrise Sessions , which include a "photography safari," early morning yoga, and an experiential dance workshop. Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC).

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Media Cause

APRIL 16, 2021

Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM). The Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose had two board members help kick off their Facebook Fundraising efforts when they first launched the giving tools on their page. The audience really appreciated the content as evidenced by the growth in average gift. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. View more presentations. Some of the presentations focused on the tactics. Here I saw a deepening of understanding and practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2013

Her work has been featured in media outlets including Redbook , Ladies Home Journal , KQED's The California Report , The San Francisco Chronicle , and The San Jose Mercury News , as well as in national blogs including The Nation and The Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". I just wanted to capture a couple of examples that came to me this week, well, through crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing the Genome . Nitrogen Wiki . Next Stop Design Process.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. read more.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Facebook sets up $500,000 foundation to deliver services in East Palo Alto, Belle Haven - San Jose Mercury News : Facebook is delivering on its promise to create a charitable foundation that will distribute $500,000 to community nonprofits serving East Palo Alto and Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Ads that let you check in at your favorite billboard - San Jose Mercury News: "Foursquare, a rapidly growing social network, lets people use their mobile phones to announce their location to friends.

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AFP Blog

MAY 29, 2009

O'Brien: Lessons on innovation from nonprofits - San Jose Mercury News: "Those lessons were on display last week when I stopped by the annual NetSquared conference at the Cisco Systems campus.

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Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

San Jose, CA is ranked #1 for recruiting volunteers who are millennials. Volunteers are worth on average $28.54 an hour according to an Independent Sector Study. Volunteers are almost twice as likely to donate to a charity than those that don’t volunteer according to The Corporation for National & Community Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

The small conference room in San Jose, California, was dimly lit and buzzing with intensity, while being relatively silent, except for the tapping of keyboards and the occasional chuckle or sigh.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Mercury News interview: Rey Ramsey, president and CEO of TechNet - San Jose Mercury News: "WASHINGTON — Rey Ramsey is the first to admit he's an unconventional choice to lead the high-tech lobbying group TechNet, having spent his career far from the office parks of Silicon Valley.Ramsey has dedicated much of his adult life to building more affordable (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. We featured many of these on Benetech's website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Examples: San Jose Opera use of #Operaplot Twitter Hashtag. And, of course, many of the listening tools like Radian 6 or free ones like Social Mention allow you export your listening streams into excel spreadsheets! 3: Use conversation starters to engage your target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2008

Chris Alexander, San Jose Museum of Art, USA. Beyond launch: Museum videos on YouTube [link] /mw2008/papers/hart/hart.html. David Hart, The Museum of Modern Art, USA. Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art, USA. Dan Dark, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA. Nicole Minor, Exploratorium, USA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Giving Circle : I helped co-found and am co-leading the San Jose Business Women for Good Giving Circle. In 2021, I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees. And finally, Peggy Duvette of WiserEarth talked about how their free online community connects the non-profit world. Three themes began to emerge in discussions after each panelist’s story: The importance of community.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Areas served: San Jose, St. They fund artists and arts organizations that create, present, and provide access to artistic excellence and inspire engagement. Their investments focus on authenticity/inclusion, transformation, and the development of talent and organizations. Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami.

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