Saturday, August 02, 2008
Nonprofit Tech Becomes Kiva Entrepreneur »
As you may know, Nonprofit Tech is a huge fan of Kiva.org. We believe that organizations like Kiva, the Heifer Project, and Changing the Present provide new and exciting opportunities for individuals and organizations to effect change through-out the world. They provide easy to use, easy to follow, systems that offer direct access to doing good while minimizing barriers to entry.
While we have frequently donated to Kiva’s organizational expenses, directly and most recently using Causes, because of the added transparency for us (Nonprofit Tech) and them (Kiva). We’ve recently decided to join Kiva as an Entrepreneur. So that we can give micro-loans to those struggling to create a better life for themselves.
Loans can be as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world. We’ve set-up a pot of $200 to manage via a pool from our staff.
The…
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Causes on FaceBook »
This week, I’m promoting Causes by Project Agape. A FaceBook application with the goal to engage users in various nonprofit causes. Causes provides “equal opportunity activism.” Fans, staff, volunteer, or grassroot activists, any of them can decide to create and promote your Cause. Project Agape calls it, the democratizing of activism.
“Any Facebook user with a little passion and initiative can create a cause, recruit their friends into that cause, keep everybody in the cause up-to-speed on issues and media related to the cause, and, most importantly, raise money directly through the cause for any U.S. registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit or Canadian registered charity.”
Last week a conversation on Twitter regarding Causes questioned the Return of Investment (ROI) for it. The conversation was sparked by Causes report of first year numbers, which I think were/are great. 80,000 installs; 20,000 causes/nonprofit orgs, $2.5…
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Roots by Ma.gnolia »
Roots connects you with the Ma.gnolia community as you browse the web. It's an idea that's profoundly simple: when you're looking at a website, click the Roots bookmarklet and see what the Ma.gnolia community thinks of that site.
So this morning, I was lead to a new feature in the social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia that I find both interesting and useful. The feature is called Roots and it's essentially a javascript overlay for whatever site or article you are browsing on the web. The overlay provides you with community data from Ma.gnolia. Now the data is just from other Ma.gnolia users and not the web at large, but still if the page has been rated, you get a rating between 1 and 5, along with a count of users who have rated it (so you…
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
We are Twittering! »
What's Twittering? It's the minutia of day-to-day thoughts and activity at a nonprofit technology service organization. Yes, we've decided to add an official Nonprofit Tech Twitter account to the barrage of our de-centralized information. Interested?
If you already Twitter, you know it can be a great source stream of information. Some of it important, a lot just chatter. But fun chatter—unless its sad chatter. Our Twitter Page is:
http://twitter.com/nonprofit_tech/But just like with Ma.gnolia, we've already integrated/centralized back to the Nonprofit Tech site, so you can also just visit us at:
http://www.nonprofit-tech.org/index.php/twitters/
So to summarize:
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Friday, February 22, 2008
The Skinny on 3 Recent Projects »
We’ve been very busy at Nonprofit Tech. Besides from our work lives, our personal lives have been filled with an array of happy, sad, tragic, ad time consuming events. But while we haven’t had the time to introduce our new project section to the site. We have been banging through far more projects than even we have realized. So I thought we’d take the time and do a quick, visual, introduction to three of them. As a disclaimer, for both our clients and our consultants, the following projects were selected at random. We do have newer projects, more ambitious projects, and definitely a number of noteworthy projects. Once we officially introduce the new ‘project’ section, you’ll get to see a more accurate timeline of projects, as well as write-ups, wireframes, notes, etc. We won’t cover every project, but we will make an effort to get most of them in. So…
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice »
Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
Passcode exploit (and fix) found for locked iPhones »
A member of the MacRumors forums has discovered an exploit that allows anyone to make use of an iPhone even if it is password-protected. The method, which is surprisingly quite simple, involves touching the Emergency Call button on the passcode entry screen and then double-clicking…
YouTube Praises Dismissal of Copyright Suit Against Veoh »
A federal court in California late Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the IO Group, an adult entertainment company, against Internet video sharing site Veoh Networks, saying that Veoh was protected by the safe harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,…
Veoh Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Viacom-YouTube Next? »
No, this isn’t the big one, but nonetheless an important precedent: A federal judge in San Jose ruled today that video-sharing site Veoh was not liable for copyrighted material uploaded to its site, dismissing an early 2006 case filed against it by Io Group, an…
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Magic Keys Radio Launches Friday - Call In Your Questions »
Media maven Claire Meyerhoff and I are officially launching our Blog Talk Radio & Podcast, Magic Keys Radio, this Friday at 1:00 p.m.! Here’s the link to listen live, along with the call-in number. You can also get the recording there after the show. This…
Why Do Colleges Do Green IT? »
ACUTA, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, has released a survey of green attitudes in IT. Granted, the number of respondents to the survey was around 80, so this may not be a statistically robust tally of green attitudes in college…
Patent Office Will Continue Reexamination of Blackboard’s Controversial Patent »
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reject’s Blackboard’s attempt to delay review.
Proteopedia: an Online Encyclopedia of Interactive 3-D Macromolecules »
Researchers in Israel and the U.S. have launched an wiki web resource with interactive 3-D images of biomacromolecules.
Q&A;: Jeff Howe on ‘crowdsourcing’ »
Howe’s new book examines the power that large groups of people have when they collectively use their creativity and talent toward accomplishing a central goal.
More FakeAlert trickery »
The conveyor belt of fake alert malware has continued apace over recent days. As previously reported [1,2,3], the attackers are using a variety of tricks and social engineering in order to infect victims. In contrast to other malware, where the attackers only need to infect…
High-Stakes DICE Roll From San Diego to Chapel Hill »
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recruits renowned computer researchers from the University of California at San Diego.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Mixed Links: Interesting Stuff on Nonprofit Marketing »
Here are a few items I’ve found particularly interesting lately: Community Media Workshop has posted some Myths and Realities to Nonprofit Communications. Do you agree with the myths and realities? I may come up with a list of my own . . . The Prospecting…
Coming Soon, Online: The Dead Sea Scrolls »
Researchers start an ambitious project to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Follow-Up: Do Movie Boycotts Work as Nonprofit Advocacy? »
Guest Blogger Rebecca Jamison Last week I wrote a post criticizing the Special Olympics’ decision to use a movie boycott to launch a campaign against the use of the word “retard.” The post was picked up by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where it received quite…
New Report Says Digital Textbooks Are Off Track »
Student group calls for more open textbooks.
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