Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Tools like mobile text/sms, facebook, twitter, and even Wikipedia have permeated the global community and in times of crisis are natural outlets for updates, news, and even cries for help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. 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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Care2

JULY 28, 2009

Global Warming! 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 Health Care Reform!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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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. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. Source: flickr.com via Beth on Pinterest.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Here’s a handy list of those adaptations from Wikipedia.). While details are scarce, it seems like Naver already sees Wattpad as a natural pairing with one of its other brands — Webtoon, an online webtoon publishing portal that similarly allows artists to upload their own work and similarly spawns TV and anime adaptations.(Here’s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Animoto :: animoto.com. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Forum One held two roundtable discussions in Seattle in the past couple of weeks on global health web communications as well as data collection, management, and dissemination. or just optimize for the browser?), to Facebook/Twitter (which one is the more intimate medium?)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Animoto :: animoto.com. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Every year, Wikipedia runs a fundraising campaign to support its operations. The 2014 online giving campaign just wrapped up and there are plenty of lessons that other nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia. Here are five things Wikipedia does that are worth incorporating into your own online giving campaign: 1.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Unplugging Russia from Cogent’s global network will likely result in slower connectivity, but won’t completely disconnect Russians from the internet, Madory notes. 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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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? See Thomas Friedman? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s s focused on an important problem ? s vision for GEO is ?to

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. He has seen it all.

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Donor Search

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How Wikimedia tapped into the wisdom of its network of 100,000 global volunteers to write their strategic plan…and why. Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). Guest post by Anna Muoio. Doing the Conventional, Unconventionally”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. For example, if you were an environmental organizations working on climate change issues you would use key words such as global warming, renewable energy, etc) as much as possible. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” COVID-19, a global pandemic. A global and marked increase in climate change-related catastrophe. A global economic downturn. An election year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Via Global Voices Advocacy blog. video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); tools and websites. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

The tiger gets caged for a bit : Tiger Global has been on a hell of a run, but Manish reports that it’s going to hit the brakes for a couple of quarters and is planning to raise a new fund later this year. million so workers in the U.K. don’t have to spend a pretty penny to merge or manage their pensions, Paul reports.

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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. That global connection is a huge way that worlds connect at Bookshare. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Paul Farestveit A trained historian with a degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, Paul Farestveit has spent the majority of his career working for STA Travel, a global student travel company that operates large businesses in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His specialty: user testing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

My work in early-stage startups focused on operations, so I used Wikipedia to find the formula for calculating a company’s post-money valuation: PMV = N x P. N = number of shares the company has post-investment. P = price per share at which the investment was made. Sean O’Sullivan, managing partner, SOSV.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This can be accomplished through building local and global connections with multidisciplinary experts and impacted communities. We also help make global conferences accessible to more researchers around the world, for example, by funding 24 students this year to attend Deep Learning Indaba in Tunisia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2012

I've cut and pasted the list of environmental issues from Wikipedia below. What environmental issues are close to your heart? It's not meant to overwhelm you; just to provide fodder for your answers.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the global Disability Rights Fund (DRF), for example, the first MEL framework was developed at a gathering of staff, advisors, and donors—the majority of whom were activists with disabilities from the Global South. These convenings are often driven by the needs and goals of participants.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. Tuesday, August 13.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

" Another paper, The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration , concludes that "income is largely responsible for the global technology gap" The Infighting. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week, the world is gearing up for mobile's biggest global tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC). At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services. Security Alert.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

Interestingly enough, the entry has the following tags and sums up our global confusion about what mentoring is. Folks want help and guidance but have trouble figuring out exactly on what. What is a mentor and what do they do anyway? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this as well. What Is or Isn’t Mentorship?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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