3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The conversations about the ALS Association’s astounding success with the Ice Bucket Challenge continue. Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Blogs, newsletters, periodicals, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter … people are still talking about it. Discussion and debate.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. I will be posting my slides on SlideShare and this blog after the event to continue the conversation started during the webinar. First, what’s a web-inar? More Information and Register Now! How you can join.

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Social Media NTEN Media Social 100

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Web Social Media Disaster Netsquared 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). What resulted was a strategic plan that filled 1,470 pages on a wiki and was then edited down to a bite-size, clear and compelling 20 page booklet.

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Wiki Facilitation Wikipedia Volunteer 93

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

When this happens, fast-growing networks start losing users en-masse (think ChatRoulette), online conversations enter the realm of the ridiculous (think YouTube comments) and online decisions may even end up leading to unpleasant consequences offline (think ransacked house of Airbnb host).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It’s reminiscent of how early internet users had to learn to navigate online information, eventually understanding that while Wikipedia might be a good starting point for research, it shouldn’t be cited as a primary source. “With AI, we’re having that same conversation often with writing as the example.”

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Law Literacy Job Teach 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Third C: Community.

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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. Do you agree?

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ROI Social Media Media Social 74

Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. Tone – Posts should have a conversational tone and attempt to tell a story. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered. Is it activists?

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Tips Web Headline Wikipedia 67

The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

If you’re thinking about something, don’t know the answer, and it seems interesting enough where you’ll probably research on Wikipedia later, this could be a topic worth writing about. Another thing I’ll do is bring up the topic of my post during a conversation with my fiancé but I won’t tell her I’ve written a piece on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. What we need to catalyze networks is conversations. . Yesterday was the second day for a meeting with a community of practice of people interested in network effectiveness convened by Monitor Institute. We can have the power to shape the space.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Find a name that sounds good and flows easily in conversation. Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring. Stick to one or the other, a combination is difficult to remember and spell. A name that flows is easy to remember. What letter to start with. Use any resource you can get.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Widget Screencast Wikipedia Poll 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

" Hinchcliffe goes on to give us a clear definition for social media with pointer to wikipedia's definition and emphasizes " The key here is that people are the ones that use and control these tools and platforms instead of organizations and large institutions." Communication in the form of conversation, not monologue.

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Social Media Media Social Wikipedia 61

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Among other things, brand SERPs include the most important pages on your site, your most recent social activity, your Wikipedia page (if you have one), and the latest news stories about your company. Therefore, SEO reputation should be at the center of a nonprofit’s SEO strategy to help maintain its supporters and their conversion rates. .

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Management Nonprofit Review Search 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Right now, the asymetric sharing can result in fragmented conversations and lack of social context, although not everyone thinks that is necessarily a bad thing. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+.

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Google Cambodia Wikipedia gMail 90

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Cindy Leonard, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. Web accessibility” means creating websites that can be fully used by people with disabilities.

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Web Accessibility Social Wikipedia 59

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. What if student goes to wikipedia and posts an article about Jamaica and helps tourism."

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. " Join us in the conversation at #Share2014. SharingEconomy'

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Share Nonprofit Portland Collaboration 80

Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP! The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations.

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Group Netsquared Social Media Nonprofit 54

Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). Think in Terms of Conversions. Figure out how things that are valuable can be tracked, such as conversions, even if they don't directly bring in money. It also means you can pick up your site and take it to any vendor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

A mix of conversational marketing. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. You are writing to create conversation, not to just inform. .

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Some are huge.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

His blog is at [link] He's also well known for his blook on blogging, Naked Conversations , co-authored with Shel Israel. The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Network maps support "what if conversations.". (BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog).

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Social Network Analysis America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. For those of you who are wondering what the heck is an ignite presentation, it is a style of presenting where the speaker has 20 slides, mostly visual, and spends no more than 20 seconds explaining each one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I want to grow my reader community by providing a great content and conversation about how nonprofits are using social media to reach new audiences, to do their work, or personal learning. I want to engage in conversation with social media evangelists from outside the nonprofit field, nonprofits who are experimenting,etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. I got bumped around a bit, but it was a little like trying to have a conversation in a hailstorm or a typhoon. Photo by Peacemaker.

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Second Life Life Nonprofit Blogher 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Recently we'd been having a number of conversations with a prospective client. After a brief cool-down period the conversation resumed and they won the project. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. Everything seemed to be going well, and I was pretty sure we were going to get the gig.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In conversations about data, privacy is something that always comes up. Wikipedia defines big data as "a collection of data set that is so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. Privacy and Definitions. Who owns the data?

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Philanthropy Data San Francisco Missouri 55

NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. It turns out that the organization was not including parents in key conversation about the diversity challenges at the school because they didn't consider the parents key members of their formal network!

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Demographics United States Baltimore California 87

TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

To the first, he says he believes the advantages of “virtual offices” over plain videoconferences — more frequent impromptu conversations, freer exchanges of ideas, etc. — will become clear over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Finally, you'll need to start to engage with your network and have a conversation. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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RSS Literacy Technorati Blogger 51

Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Be a part of the #GivingTuesday conversation. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Timebox it. Participate, but don’t let this take too much time!

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Ideas Giving Donation Facebook 111

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Project management tools for remote teams. Checkvist (Cool Online Checklist Collaboration Tool). Can tech help ease volunteers' pocketbook shock with gas prices? Donated or Discounted Online Collaboration Products.

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Collaboration Online Wikispaces Wiki 55

Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group and join the conversation today! Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Social Media September is coming! Please save the date. Details coming soon. Event Reports. What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Wednesday, June 5. Thursday, June 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Social Network Fragmentation.

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