Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

And yes, I know this is extremely confusing and baffling, and no, I am sorry, I can not explain to you beyond what have detailed above the history, functionality, or why of Facebook Community Pages. Step 2 :: Find your Facebook Community Page. There are two ways to discover whether your nonprofit has a community page.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health crises such as the recent outbreak of coronavirus add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace ’s Molly Wood sat down with Katherine Maher, chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

In this game you put events from Wikipedia in a timeline. If you’re a history buff, or are looking for a new web game to play, Wikitrivia may be worth your time. As far as I’m aware this answer appears to be correct, but I’ve come across inaccurate info from the web in one of these boxes before.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

If only Wikipedia had an entry cataloguing Brett's email references!). Though, despite Brett's vast knowledge of seemingly all restaurants in Portland, he did have a history of finding the ones with the most meat on the menu. If cute animals weren't the hook, Brett was always right there, waiting for you, with a Star Wars reference. (If

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We’re kicking off Black History Month in style by reading Oprah’s 31 Black History facts today and committing to (re-)reading Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy. Come to think of it, we bet there’s probably a bunch of AIs reading this newsletter too. So, hello, you kindhearted and beautiful AIs as well. It’s a hell of a read.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Producers: Building a reputation system helps determine reliability of a producer based on the history of production. Those with greater reputation are also accorded superior rights, as in the case of Wikipedia editors and super-users. Algorithms on these platforms favor the reputed producer.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

All nonprofits should be aware that Millienials are: The most ethnically and racially diverse youth in US history. Starting out as the most politically progressive age group in modern history. Among those ages 13 to 29: 18.5% are Hispanic; 14.2% are black; 4.3% are Asian; 3.2%

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. There is also a $50,000 bounty program for OpenID integration in major open source distribution.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For most of artificial intelligences history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep insights into human cognition, or fundamental advances in our understanding of the brain. billion words. trillion words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. You can see a simple example that I tried to extract myself from looking at the history. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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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. Encarta itself has a strange and fascinating history. But by then, it was too late: Encarta had completely cornered the market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Here's his clarification: I always like to point out, as Wikipedia currently says, that I only invited readers of my blog to propose names, and selected the term screencast. I also like to point out that nothing was invented, and that the medium has a long history going back to (as far as I can remember) Lotus Screencam.

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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 has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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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 has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A story about your organization’s history, programs, and future goals is unlikely to get picked up by a newspaper, TV station, or digital publication. The big-gift story is surprisingly easy to sell, especially if you can say it’s “the biggest gift in our organization’s history.” Step 1: Find Your Story . It’s just too broad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. There is a history of virtual gift giving. Tara Hunt has some great examples and thinking in this post.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. Know Company’s History and Stability: LMS vendor landscape has seen a major consolidation in the past and is still an ongoing trend. and get informed on just anything. The information available is abundant.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Here are some of the stats: Youtube: IBC Videos Watched 1 BILLION+ times = one of the biggest video phenomenon in the history of the Internet. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 I think what is most captivating, and something that Slaughter and I discussed, is the statistic on Wikipedia searches. million Twitter mentions.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

Donor prospect research, also known as prospect research or prospecting, involves examining data about individuals outside of your current donor pool in order to learn more about their potential interest in your cause, their philanthropic history, and what they might be able to give.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ). However the history of humanity shows that unequal wealth distribution can wreak all sorts of havoc on a resource-rich natural environment. ” 2020 was one of the warmest years in history and indicates mounting risks of climate change.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), and the good feeling you get when you contribute to an organization you love. The day has grown into the world’s biggest giving movement and gets bigger every year. Donors gave an astounding $2.7 billion to nonprofits on Giving Tuesday in 2021.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

And let’s talk about the cast, Eve Best, Merritt Wever, Peter Facinelli, and Anna Deavere Smith play some of the most compelling, juicy characters of all time, and they do some of the best acting in TV history in my humble opinion. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll root for characters you hate. It has also been renewed for a fifth season.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. I added this tab so that I have a separate page that just hosts a series of specialized search engines (eBay, Amazon, Flickr) as well as my Google search history. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. What makes this so great?

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

wikipedia b. Her history is with off-line organizing and so her job is to see how we can leverage social networks and integrate web 2.0 Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg. drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many. You have to have the ability to communicate. Shared Resources a.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

First, they may want to learn some basic facts, history, and read some stories about how the organization makes an impact. One of the techniques I use to encourage learning and exploration is to structure the main navigation in the order I’d envision a user building a relationship with the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Tornado History Project The Tornado History Project is a searchable, sortable database of tornado statistics based on official National Weather Service (NWS) tornado records from 1950-2005 and googlemaps. The growing adoption of wikis in educational.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. Many native groups are not eager to offer up their cultural stories and history for mash-ups on the web.

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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? He grew up in Tennessee, got a history degree from Harvard, worked in Manhattan for the Edison Project, then bought a home in Toronto where he rests and plays with his wife and their two sons ages 11 and 7.

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