Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. Points can later be redeemed for deals and free items at local merchants. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

While they may attempt to connect local consumers to the world, they do not connect us with the local markets. And without a local market, these companies will generally not be of interest to the international investors or acquirers whose attention we desperately seek. What can the mirror tell us about the next big company?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The revenue model is based on in-app purchasing of virtual items and driving users to local businesses and merchants (smart!). Examples: revamped versions of Wikipedia and Craigslist. Geonuts started a Kickstarter campaign for the game if you’re interested in learning more. You can also sign up for the closed beta today. ?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

NetSquared Local members meet monthly in 50 cities around the world with the goal of helping each other solve their tech challenges and finding a tribe of people who shares our passions. What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Event Reports.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Whether you want to display your work on a local, national, or global map, this is a visually-compelling new way to tell your nonprofit’s story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Data Collection The FRMT dataset consists of partial English Wikipedia articles, sourced from the Wiki40b dataset, that have been translated by paid, professional translators into different regional varieties of Portuguese and Mandarin. In principle, those methods should also work for other language distinctions, such as formality and style.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

“The Wikipedia article on George Clooney is way longer than the one on 911,” he noted. His mother was the local doctor, and he and his brother habituated to the openness and ennui of rural farming life. “We Why can’t I just press a button and get an ambulance? And then it sparks this curiosity,” Martin said.

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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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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

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” 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. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. AirBnB will allow hosts to donate to local causes; will add smoke detectors, will work on joint campaigns with the city and improve disaster preparedness.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring. It’s always good to own a.com domain but sometimes focusing on your local area, or identifying how people find you can bring some very good names back into the discussion. Use any resource you can get.

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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. 3: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal16. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Don’t believe me? Event Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

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.); the amplifying of local campaigns defending the right to access web 2.0 the crackdown on web 2.0

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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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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.” (I wonder if Randy has a crystal ball up there somewhere in Nebraska?!) Some good examples of disruptive innovations are streaming video (thanks, Netflix!)

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Having the cooperative capabilities to schedule an instructor on a localized calendar has unmeasurable benefits. a))” [Wikipedia] GyrusAim has developed a feature for supporting compliance with Title 21 CFR Part 11. "Title 21 CFR Part 11" Wikipedia. Resource Management. Beal, Vangie. "What 14 June 2016. "Title

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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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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This can be accomplished through building local and global connections with multidisciplinary experts and impacted communities. Open Images V7 Open Images V7 expands the Open Images dataset with new point-level label annotations, which provide localization information for 5.8k Pfam-NUniProt2 A set of 6.8

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. But internet behavior is changing – people find opportunities today through content curation and sharing, and they expect information to be presented in a contextual, localized format like on Yelp or Google Places. The results so far?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Other companies in this space that will liberate us from our local area networks are vArmour and Embrane. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. I wasn't entirely clear on how the thing will work, but it sounds miraculous. Illumio staffers call their service a computer liberation movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He mentioned that he ad done a great deal of research. He was asking his local guide a lot of questions about what was and what wasn't appropriate. However, the local culture was to cover your body up. 1) Everybody is People. Eugene shared his experience going to a developing country for the first time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This free web tool is designed to help nonprofits as well as local health departments, financial institutions, and hospitals better understand the needs and assets of their communities. With the Community Commons tools, people can choose to keep their maps and data private or share them with others.

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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. In addition, the study found that Executive Directors of color mostly lead local or regional organizations, not national organizations. These percentages are even worse for nonprofit boards!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Lakeside Chautauqua managed to raise $105k by focusing on a local restoration project in their community. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Timebox it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool." An informational postcard to pass out at local events. Here are a few tools to help you spread the word on your blog, community list servs, or just by emailing your friends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Bridge To Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference Washington, DC 7/8/07-7/10/07 NP.IT: Midsummer Mixer at Google Headquarters in collaboration with NTEN Mountain View, CA 7/12/07 Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, Wikipedia Founder San Francisco, CA 7/18/07. NetSquared.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

According to Wikipedia, or Nielsen Norman Group, an Evidence-Based User Experience Research Firm, responsive web design is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is using to view a website or webpage. What is responsive web design?

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