Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms and personalized feeds. “I believe journalists and content creators need a new measure for success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. 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

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. 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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TechSpot

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Interfax news agency reported in July that Reddit was facing its first-ever fine from Russia after it failed to remove content that Moscow said discredits the Russian army. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

The Wikimedia Foundation is creating a new paid service for companies that draw on Wikipedia data. The foundation announced the news today via an article in Wired , and it’s planning to launch later in 2021. Wikimedia Enterprise , as it’s called, won’t change how current Wikipedia services work.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

If you are very lucky the merge will be approved and you’ll get some news fans in the process. That means your nonprofit needs to find your community page(s) and request to merge it with your Official Facebook Page. Step 1: Understand how Facebook Community Pages are created. Step 2 :: Find your Facebook Community Page.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 25, 2009

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format (from Wikipedia ). RSS - Really Simple Syndication, can be a great time saver. Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is news?” And if this graphic is any indication, “Baby Shark” hasn’t even come close to peaking yet: Graphic: Wikipedia. says my wife. Please don’t play it. Please don’t play it.”. Of course, it’s too late. Baby Shark” is practically a core memory at this point; even with my speakers muted, it’s already playing in our brains.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The entertainment news outlet reports that Amazon is “nearing a deal to develop a series” based on the Mass Effect games. and internet sleuths figured out it was actually a printout of the Wikipedia entry for Mass Effect 3. While Electronic Arts and BioWare have not announced a series, there have been more than a few hints.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Musk didn’t comment further on Twitter. A request for comment to Tesla’s media email was not immediately returned Sunday morning; the company dissolved its press office and rarely replies to media queries.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

" Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger — Tech News and Analysis – "Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? Have you made a video like this?

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Cutting Russians off from internet access cuts them from off from sources of independent news and the ability to organize anti-war protests. The Russian government has already made it more difficult for Russians to gain access to news sources and social platforms. WTF Cogent? Don't do Putin's dirty work for him.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Here’s a handy list of those adaptations from Wikipedia.). A new chapter in our story is about to be written, and we're not writing it alone. Read the exciting news ? We’re thrilled to announce our board has approved an agreement to be acquired by Naver, home of @webtoonofficial !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Alexa is best known for Alexa Rank, a ranking of the world’s most popular websites, with this information frequently referenced in news coverage and public resources like Wikipedia. Alexa was founded in 1996 and bought by Amazon in 1999 (15 years before the shopping giant revealed its digital assistant of the same name).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. There’s some interesting news and plenty of free things this month. ” If the nodes on a graph thing is a bit baffling, I like CITEworld’s coverage on this news.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google is updating its search results with a major new feature: an “about this result” menu that will let you pull up information from Wikipedia about a website in your search results, making it easier to vet sites that you’re not familiar with.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

A user’s karma on Hacker News or Reddit is a function of the community’s assessment of her ability to produce consistently and with high quality. 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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Viva Connections is built on top of Microsoft’s SharePoint technology, and it will include things like company news, town halls, or even employee resource groups and communities. Think of Viva topics as a Wikipedia for the organization,” explains Spataro. “You can think of it as a gateway to your digital workplace,” explains Spataro.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The fact that, more and more, propaganda disguised as “news” offered by Fox, Breitbart, and the like, is free and readily accessible, while fact-based journalism is often behind a paywall, should scare us all. I made my largest gift to Wikipedia ever (okay, only $35). So, what happened?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

I can be used to spread misinformation, create fake news, and even manipulate people. Their knowledge universe includes: Common Crawl (a nonprofit organization that crawls the web and offers its archives, which contain petabyes of data, to the public), Wikipedia, articles, books, and documents of all kinds.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 26, 2007

Wired News: Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations: "By Kim Zetter| Also by this reporter14:00 PM Mar, 23, 2007Two top employees of the Wikimedia Foundation have resigned, citing disagreements with the board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 26, 2008

PC Pro: News: Wikipedia grabs record donation: "The Wikimedia Foundation has received an unprecedented $3 million donation from a single organisation, twice the amount it raised in the whole of 2006.".

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last month, the company suspended its AI-powered news alert feature after it falsely claimed a murder suspect had shot himself, one of several fabricated headlines that appeared under trusted news organizations’ logos. Even tech giant Apple couldn’t prevent its artificial intelligence from making things up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. Fresh and Relevant Content - Follow the news related to the issues you work on. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“Wikipedia would probably earn a few billion dollars a year from its content. It represents the faintest of echoes from a web more innocent and more hopeful than the social-media poisoned cesspool of chaos and fake news we often find ourselves in today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com. At a cost of only $.99,

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Rather than read news articles to formulate ideas for your next company, I encourage any budding Latin American entrepreneur to get on Wikipedia. And without a local market, these companies will generally not be of interest to the international investors or acquirers whose attention we desperately seek.

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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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