Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It is also possible to access MySQL databases via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) or JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) PostgreSQL – PostgreSQL has always been my favorite. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It is also possible to access MySQL databases via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) or JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) PostgreSQL – PostgreSQL has always been my favorite. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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See3

JANUARY 14, 2008

I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. 23 Jan 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Here it is.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the 2008 Presidential election, Millennials voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by 66%-32%, while adults ages 30 and over split their votes 50%-49%. Among those ages 13 to 29: 18.5% are Hispanic; 14.2% are black; 4.3% are Asian; 3.2% are mixed race or other; and 59.8%, a record low, are white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. "Take for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool." Submit your idea for a mashup with social impact by MARCH 14, 2008 at 5 PM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. The Bandwagon Effect In 2008, we launched a "single-sign on" method using Facebook Connect that allows our visitors to use their Facebook credentials to log in. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool." If you have an idea for a way to combine data that could raise awareness around an issue, submit it to the NetSquared Mashup Challenge by March 14, 2008 5 PM PST for a chance to win cash prizes.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. and will be expanded to include energy transmission infrastructure. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. and will be expanded to include energy transmission infrastructure. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

According to a March 2008 New York Times article, Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness. According to Wikipedia , malaise is, "a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an 'out of sorts' feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. And volunteers are 42 percent more likely to be very happy than nonvolunteers."

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

Their first drop, in May 2019, was a 2008 Windows laptop running six pieces of malware, which have collectively caused $95 billion in financial damage. Founder Gabriel Whaley in MSCHF’s headquarters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This is the process by which MSCHF comes up with their projects, and it’s had a remarkably high hit rate.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com CRM--short for constituent relationship management--might simply be called a database, but to nonprofits, CRMs are much more than that. I could go on and on but those are some key ones.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? You don't need Wal-Mart's permission, just an API and a source for the data.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 11:38AM | by shannon Source: Wikipedia/Yotophoto.com When you send out a newsletter or email blast, you probably figure that your message will be seen by everyone you send it to, right? | Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism? That might not be the case. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." The characteristics I imagine are based on my definition of a wiki as a website that anyone can edit. But that is not everyone's definition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

It appears the first part of Grok's reply was taken almost verbatim from the Wikipedia page for " US economic performance by presidential party." Also, 9 of the last 10 recessions started under Republican presidents." Data speaks louder than party lines," it declared pithily.

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