Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Care2

AUGUST 3, 2012

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Linkedin, whose users are politically active and Living Social are considered a "swing" network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Credible: Great, so you’ve engaged me and done it quickly, but if you try and tell me that your magic beans are the cure to cancer tomorrow, I’m onto whatever else my fascinating network of do-gooders and colleagues is up to. The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Instagram :: instagr.am.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What is a knowledge sharing network? A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? Knowledge is a lofty word.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response.

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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. Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of nonprofit social enterprises operating in all of these areas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K., Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

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. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

As Doug Madory, an internet analyst at network tracking company Kentik points out , some of the company’s most prominent Russian customers include the state-backed telecom giant Rostelecom, Russian search engine Yandex, and two of Russia’s largest mobile carriers: MegaFon and VEON. WTF Cogent?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s built on a neural network architecture known as a transformer, which enables it to handle complex natural language tasks effectively. Both models include transformer architecture and a neural network. Bard is a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Contra, a professional network for freelance workers, is partnering with TikTok to allow users to showcase their resumes and portfolios via TikTok Jump, the social media service’s third-party integration tool. Contra’s goal is to help independent workers create high-signal referral networks so they can land new opportunities.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2007

The fight over Net Neutrality - the idea that Internet providers should remain neutral regarding the information or applications served over their networks, has been dealt an explicit blow in the new AT&T terms of service, as brought to my attention in a Boing-Boing post by Cory Doctorow. Paragraph 5.1

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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. Deep learning uses artificial neural networks to learn from data.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Network effects make a community more valuable as it scales. However, the onset of vandalism could make network effects work in reverse if the system doesn’t scale its ability to govern user activity. Those with greater reputation are also accorded superior rights, as in the case of Wikipedia editors and super-users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. Which is why Campus Party has pioneered H4SB — Hacking for Something Better.

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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. Instead, she turned to the 100,000 volunteer network of Wikimedians around the world and asked them: Hey, what would you do? Guest post by Anna Muoio. Doing the Conventional, Unconventionally”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting. It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Fundly CEO Dave Boyce, my proposed co-presenter, and I may have a bunch of Facebook followers and plenty of twaffic in my personal network, but that's nothing compared to how many people the folks I know are connected to. The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network. The second-time was more directed.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

According to Wikipedia, a brand is a “name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.” They will do all the hard work for you and talk to their networks about you. What is branding? First things first, let’s define branding.

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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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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

The prevalence of these methods was because existing end-to-end computer vision models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers pre-trained on natural images could not be easily adapted to visual language. A chart created from a table in the Airbus A380 Wikipedia page using random plotting options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

What interests me most is the whole concept of circles and this design is based on something called “ intimacy grades.&# It isn’t new – a lot comes from the early discussions of social software and networks and some early adopters say the energy is similar to birth of blogosphere and early social networking back in 2003.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Zhang reported such networks of fake Pages to her managers, Facebook’s response was inconsistent. The company was slow in responding to some reports (it took “nearly a year” to remove the Honduras network and 14 months to take down the Azerbaijan campaign , says The Guardian ) and ignored others Zhang found, e.g. in Bolivia and Albania.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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