Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Article raters have the option of self-identifying as a subject matter expert for whatever article they rate."

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? ” And in a related article, the Chronicle discussed the challenge faced by the ALS Association in dealing with 2.4 Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September. million new donors.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 25, 2009

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs. I would recommend reading it.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

It can be used for tasks such as providing customer support, writing articles, translating languages, generating creative content, and much more. Articles I consulted that were written just months ago, are already out of date. Bard has the potential to be a very useful tool.

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Care2

JULY 28, 2009

Just recently the National Institute of Health launched a new initiative to encourage their scientists to edit or start new Wikipedia entries on their area of expertise to ensure that the correct information on health issues is cited. “Wikipedia articles (there are more than 2.9 This got me thinking.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

Shel Israel, Twitterville Wikipedia Article on Twitter. My first Tweet: October 24, 2006 According to the TwitterFacts Blog , the first tweets of Twitter were sent three years ago today. I started using it 6 months after, but I didn't truly adopt the tool until 6 months later. What and when was your first tweet?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 2) Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on July 27th. 3) No More Custom CMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

clipping articles and links extremely easy. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

A couple things about this article " Cambodian ex-monarch joins blogger community " in the Taipei Times caught my attention. The King's Royal Blog (which is written in french, english, and Khmer) and ability to make the article into wikipedia links.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. . ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. In other words the abilities that one possesses.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. Why is Skills Management Important? Perhaps last week I put the cart before the horse though because I didn’t define “skill.”

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. Why is Skills Management Important? Perhaps last week I put the cart before the horse though because I didn’t define “skill.”

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. Why is Skills Management Important?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As Kania and Kramer point out in their excellent article on collective impact, success isn’t lack of conflict or high marks on group harmony. Like this article? Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

OpenBusiness has a post called " Getting Rich Off Those Who Work for Free " which is summarizing a recent article about this in Time Magazine. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. s big idea???that

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Here’s how I did it: First, I began by publishing a blog post with a content offer that was relevant to the article. Not only does it condense the article into a 2-minute read, but this checklist doubles the value by offering 7 bonus strategies not found in the post. The top 10 articles on diabetes research average 17,188 shares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia. If dealing with local article, this will be unique. Nesson gave this annecdote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

Some examples: Mambo Love Opera KD Creative Commons Spread FireFox Wikipedia Promotion SpreadOpen Office. Some articles analyzing campaigns or reflections. The terms applies to community-driven marketing and pr campaigns to gather support for open source software. Lessig: post 1 and post 2 Factory Joe Spread Spread Posts.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

According to Wikipedia, content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers (or donors, volunteers, etc. But before we get into the details, a simple definition. What is Content Marketing? inserted by me). . inserted by me).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

And then there are all the articles, blogs, and videos that my Facebook contacts post every day. Here's an article posted by Amy Luckey at GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) that talks about the use of collaborative web tools to strengthen the relationships between funders and organizations. Grantmaking 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. It's good at showing how a particular technical topic relates to other subjects, and you can usually find useful links at the bottom of articles. It has helpful, succinct articles like The Difference Between CRM and ERP. Its specialty is tech advice without the jargon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

He wrote the article on the August issue of the TR on Continuous Computing called " Social Machines " definitely worth reading.). Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Many of the original articles were purchased from Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia under a non-exclusive contract.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

a))” [Wikipedia] GyrusAim has developed a feature for supporting compliance with Title 21 CFR Part 11. "Title 21 CFR Part 11" Wikipedia. In fact, you would be hard pressed to identify matching features across the entirety of the industry. Beal, Vangie. "What "What Is API – Application Program Interface?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2009

Wikipedia can help you decipher some of it. Our recent article, Unified Communications Options for Nonprofits can too. I don't know about you, but I have always found the terminology around telephone systems a little complex and unnecessarily confusing and I come from an IT background. PBX, POTS, PSTN, Trunk Lines.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. Related Article: 8 Research-Backed Ways To Improve Marketing For Nonprofits. Alternatively, a spreadsheet tracking internal links of your articles works just as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. With just over 14 000 articles collected to date, the Muppets seem to have a host of loyal supporters who are ready to contribute information about the ???world Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. That's a start.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For more detail on these benefits, see Choosing a Disk Cloning Solution for Your Nonprofit or the Wikipedia article on disk cloning. Disk cloning has several potential applications for system administrators in libraries. In brief, the applications include the following (this list isn't meant to be comprehensive): read more.

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