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Thursday, October 27
Instead of blinding them with science, we stunned them with doughnuts
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 27 Oct 2005 08:04 PM EDT
I am pleased to report that Wednesday morning's Cyber-Cafe at the Massachusetts state house was quite a success... more » Wednesday, October 26
Wikimaniacs, meet Boston. Boston, meet the Wikimaniacs.
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Wed 26 Oct 2005 10:26 PM EDT
  Here's some good news: Boston's bid to host the 2006 Wikimania conference has been accepted... more » Tuesday, October 25
Improvisation, Brilliant Foresight, and Del.icio.us
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Tue 25 Oct 2005 03:08 PM EDT
 As I listened to Joshua Schachter talk about what it takes to create and expand an online resource such as del.icio.us, what was most striking was his unusual combination of brilliant foresight and the ability to improvise in response to unexpected uses of the tool... more » Monday, October 24
Case Studies for NetSquared in Action
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 24 Oct 2005 03:53 PM EDT
 I just have to boast. If you go to NetSquared in Action, you will see a some case studies by yours truly. This concludes today's episode of boastfulness. Thank you, and have a nice day. more » Sunday, October 23
Beyond Talking Heads (Redux)
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sun 23 Oct 2005 11:47 AM EDT
 Photo by Beth Kanter As the Boston N-TEN regional conference approached, I did a lot of agonizing about how to design a session on advocating for new technology in nonprofit organizations... more »  1 AttachmentsSaturday, October 22
Beth Blogs the Boston Nonprofit Technology Conference
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 22 Oct 2005 08:12 AM EDT
 Yesterday's regional N-TEN conference (which focused on on "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers") was a lot of fun and a great learning experience. I suggest that you go straight to Beth Kanter's blog to read more about it; she has done a great job of covering it. I especially like her summary of the keynote speech by George McCully, who is president of the Catalogue of Philanthropy and creator of the national Generosity Index. more » Wednesday, October 19
CMS for NPOs
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Wed 19 Oct 2005 05:21 PM EDT
 For me, the underlying question is what a content management system can offer nonprofit organizations, and how to communicate that to nonprofit community... more » Monday, October 17
Setting Up a Cyber-Cafe Under the Golden Dome
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 17 Oct 2005 08:10 PM EDT
 On paper, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth is a serious non-partisan think tank - but it's also a group of people who know how to have fun celebrating a new epoch in "democratizing the data." Next week, MassINC is re-launching its web site by setting up a cyber-cafe by the grand staircase of the Massachusetts State House. We'll be there under the golden dome, serving up free coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, setting up laptops with internet access, and offering tours of the new data-rich web site. Activists, data geeks, advocates, policy wonks, students, elected officials, political junkies, and all other members of the community will be warmly welcomed at this hands-on demonstration of MassINC's new free community resource... more » Thursday, October 13
Gentlemen, Start Your CRMs
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 13 Oct 2005 12:00 AM EDT
 
On Wednesday, I went to a Convio workshop on "Creating Your Blueprint for Online Success." Naturally the emphasis was on using constituent relationship management (also known as customer relationship management or CRM) applications; that's Convio's sweet spot. I found myself visualizing some sort of workshop in which proponents of CivicCRM and Convio (and perhaps several other purveyors of CRMs) gave parallel presentations, answered questions, and allowed prospective users to sit down at a desktop and mess around a little with each product. We could really use an event like that here in the Boston area... more » Wednesday, October 12
The Second Social Welfare System?
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John G. McNutt
on Wed 12 Oct 2005 12:00 AM EDT
 As we all watched the horror that was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a small group of technologically sophisticated people worked behind the scenes to shore up the social safety net that was as vulnerable as the levees that protected New Orleans. Existing organizations, such as the Community Technology Centers leapt into action. At the same time, new organizations, like Katrina find, organized themselves quickly to provide services that were often unavailable or incomplete. For the people who had their lives changed by these on-line heroes this was probably enough. On balance, this might be the beginning of something even more significant... more » Tuesday, October 11
Bringing Wikimania to Boston
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Tue 11 Oct 2005 01:33 PM EDT
Toronto and Boston are currently competing to play host to Wikimania 2006, which will be an international gathering of those involved in the Wikimedia Foundation's various projects... more » Monday, October 10
The Dream of an Open Source Web-Based Database
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 10 Oct 2005 04:18 PM EDT
I have a delightful client who dreams of an entirely open source web-based version of the Organizers Database. So one of my tasks as a Cyber-Yenta is to do a little footwork, and see whether an entirely open source web-based version is possible... more » Wednesday, October 5
NetSquared: Reinventing Nonprofit Technology Online
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Wed 05 Oct 2005 04:05 PM EDT
 "Net² is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users....We don't know exactly what the Net² community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another. And we know that the creativity and commitment of the non-profit world is crucial to achieving the creative and community potential of the Internet itself." Tuesday, October 4
A simple (and free!) solution: PledgeBank
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Tue 04 Oct 2005 12:00 AM EDT
There have been many times in my life when I've said, "I'd do my part if I were certain that other people would do their parts." And indeed, a lot of plans for community action seems ineffectual or just plain silly unless you know that others will join in. MySociety.Org, a group from the United Kingdom, has created a global online solution called PledgeBank... more » Sunday, October 2
Nonprofit Technology and the Key National Indicators Initiative
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sun 02 Oct 2005 12:00 AM EDT
 On Tuesday evening, I attended a presentation at the Boston Foundation by Christopher Hoenig, who spoke about the need for a Key National Indicators Initiative (KNII). I took an opportunity during the question-and-answer session to ask whether there would be a role for eRiders and other nonprofit technology professionals in the project he had just proposed... more » Saturday, October 1
Is the Internet the New Social Welfare Delivery System?
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 01 Oct 2005 12:00 AM EDT
 In 2003, James F. Moore proposed the hypothesis that the internet is emerging as the second superpower. Lately, John McNutt has been documenting online volunteer responses to Hurricane Katrina, and hypothesizing that the internet is (if not the second superpower) the new social welfare delivery system... more » |
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