Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. This is museum digitization 101. Museums of all sizes have moved to digitize objects and place them on discrete webpages so visitors can easily get to the content they want through a Google search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. 22: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 22: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 14: V-Day — #VDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent source of images is to take them yourself with your digital camera or mobile phone camera. If you practice some the basic photography rules , you should be able to DIY some good images for your content strategy.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Searching “Grogu”, “The Child”, “The Mandalorian”, or “Baby Yoda” on mobile or in the Google app will return the usual Knowledge Panel with a Wikipedia summary of the character. The company has grown its digital menagerie over time, but Grogu is by far the most exotic and far flung inclusion since dinosaurs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The digital divide doesn't exist. Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. Better, perhaps, to allow that the digital divide most closely resembles, well, the world.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Big Data Data Acquisition Data Management Data Mining data management data mining digital marketing donor acquisition donor data fundraising fundraising data analysis' Discussion and debate.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While businesses collectively spend billions of dollars each year on employee wellbeing, Microsoft thinks Viva will help in this new digital era of work. “We You can think of it as a gateway to your digital workplace,” explains Spataro. Think of Viva topics as a Wikipedia for the organization,” explains Spataro.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Alexa was founded in 1996 and bought by Amazon in 1999 (15 years before the shopping giant revealed its digital assistant of the same name). Alexa is best known for Alexa Rank, a ranking of the world’s most popular websites, with this information frequently referenced in news coverage and public resources like Wikipedia.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Increasing return systems are: digital. Examples: Wikipedia. Digital gift economies turn free loaders into “audience.&#. loosely coupled. intrinsically motivated. network, horizontal. variable, uncontrolled. PledgeBank. Why not just turn up and eat the food?

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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.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Examples: revamped versions of Wikipedia and Craigslist. Words that are ‘one-layered’ in actual books can be automatically linked to other sources for information (translation, Wikipedia, audio, search etc.).

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Digital rights activists have criticized Cogent’s decision to disconnect itself from Russia, arguing that it could prevent Russian civilians from accessing credible information about the invasion. The country has also restricted access to Twitter and threatened to block Wikipedia over “false messages” about the war in Ukraine.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Ideal for publishing interactive digital flyers, brochures or annual reports, Simplebooklet is hosted in the cloud thus any edits are automatically changed everywhere your booklet has been published.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Ideal for publishing interactive digital flyers, brochures or annual reports, Simplebooklet is hosted in the cloud thus any edits are automatically changed everywhere your booklet has been published.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. Digital Divide Data and Worth Trust are two of our outsource partners who make a difference in many people’s lives by providing opportunities for training and employment to disabled and other job seekers in third world countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

So, for instance, you could Ctrl-F on a Wikipedia page and ask “Where did this person live?” This is one of the final frontiers of what computers can do,” Sivulka said, noting that computation has already revolutionized many fields by digitizing data and making it easier to process. Photo via Hebbia.

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Donor Search

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Wikipedia Since #GivingTuesday is the most prominent digital fundraising event of the year (It raised $2.47 “#GivingTuesday is touted as a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” Billion in 2020!), So WHY…

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Large sites such as Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Amazon, Home Depot and Target have something the rest of us don’t — they’ve got years of built-up Google trust signals. Big sites have increased their search traffic by 28% year over year, according to GrowthBar ’s organic search data on the 100 most visited sites.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world. What’s an Ecosystem? What’s Your Ecosystem Look Like?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

It is ubiquitous in our digital life in the form of iconography, infographics, tables, plots, and charts, extending to the real world in street signs, comic books, food labels, etc. A chart created from a table in the Airbus A380 Wikipedia page using random plotting options. For [chart, table] pairs, we explored two sources.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2010

According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Has this been done before? What is the best route? How can this project be sustainable?

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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. “AI literacy is like digital literacyit’s a thing,” De-Arteaga says.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Apple might be a generic name for an apple picking and distribution company, but it was a hell of a unique and innovative name in the 70s when they were going against companies like Digital Equipment Corp. Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring. Make it simple.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

.” “Language models will form the backbone of our digital economy, and we want everyone to have a voice in their design,” the Stability AI team wrote in a blog post on the company’s site. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. 17: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 17: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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