Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” The method can be combined with these others and is very simple.

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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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DataRobot

JULY 28, 2022

This article presents a case study of how DataRobot was able to achieve high accuracy and low cost by actually using techniques learned through Data Science Competitions in the process of solving a DataRobot customer’s problem. The Best Way to Achieve Both Accuracy and Cost Control.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations. Before coming to HRDAG, Jule was co-founder and deputy president of the German student organization Studies Without Borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. Most nodes are connected by an indirect link in the network.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Search engines constantly scour the web for information using this method -- but bots are also used by those nasty folks on the web that like to steal your information or trash your website. First off, for 2010, there are some security questions you should ask yourself as trends emerge: Are robots attacking my servers? (Ro)bots

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. 2) Bookmarks can??? But first, some definitions.

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