Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

Museums of all sizes have moved to digitize objects and place them on discrete webpages so visitors can easily get to the content they want through a Google search. It might be Wikipedia. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. So they go to the Web and start exploring.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

On the open source side, Linux is by far the most popular, with BSD in second place. source: wikipedia ). On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks. Both Linux and BSD come in several flavors (or distributions.)

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? I can’t tell you how many places I have read discussions and debates about so-called “visibility projects” How do you replicated them? Discussion and debate. million new donors. What’s the next “ice bucket”? Analyze it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. Chapter 8 :: Google Places, Yelp, and Loopt?

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

In this game you put events from Wikipedia in a timeline. You then have to put the card on the correct place in the timeline. You’re allowed three mistakes, which are represented by hearts, and you’ll lose one if you put a card in the wrong place. Okay, I promise that last one was a slip of the mouse.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

This startup, called Rompr , is building a place where young parents can share and discover fun activities they can do with their kids (up to 12 years old, roughly). The data in the Rompr database is crowdsourced from users and can be about events (time-limited) and fixed places (e.g. Join The Mossad.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV , with Hulu, Netflix and others adapting Wattpad writers’ labors into titles like The Kissing Booth, Light as a Feather and After We Collided. Here’s a handy list of those adaptations from Wikipedia.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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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. It’s really worth a read.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We need to stop thinking about work as a place, and start thinking about how to maintain culture, connect employees, and harness human ingenuity in a hybrid world,” says Jared Spataro, head of Microsoft 365. Think of Viva topics as a Wikipedia for the organization,” explains Spataro. Image: Microsoft.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest. Source: eef-etc.com via Beth on Pinterest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. PHP is one of many programming languages. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

TikTok has become one of the leading places for people to get career advice and find out about amazing roles, so it only makes sense that creators should also be able to showcase their amazing professional work on the platform,” said Contra founder and CEO Ben Huffman in a statement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Shazam is available in yet another place. I had decent luck testing it out — it worked on YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, and even Wikipedia. I also learned today that Wikipedia captions songs, to incredible effect. Image: Shazam.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“Wikipedia would probably earn a few billion dollars a year from its content. Perhaps it sounds a little idealistic, but damn it, that’s what made me excited about Yep in the first place. The pitch is pretty elegant: “Let’s say that the biggest search engine in the world makes $100B a year.

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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.” Michelin: Getting to Places. What is branding? First things first, let’s define branding. Harley Davidson: Freedom. Google: Discovery.

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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. based Latinos would probably have an economic consumption power equal to Mexico’s 100+ million consumers, tying it for second place in Latin America. If the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

The top of Turntable.fm’s Wikipedia page is filled with warnings about disputes and close connections, and Chasen and Perla have both written Medium articles addressing the situation (both with their own versions of the story). It seems that he’s made good on this promise, as that integration is now in place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. I started thinking about how a lot of the online collaboration was taking place on the social web is between people who had never met each other and after they work together may meet each other. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Now that we’ve done an in-depth introduction to what you need to put in place and how you should go about creating them, it’s time to get into more detail and give you some guides on how to do things. Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. . ” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. In other words the abilities that one possesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The models were trained on a data set called The Pile, a mix of internet-scraped text samples from websites including PubMed, StackExchange and Wikipedia. Even gatekept, commercialized models like GPT-4, which have filters and human moderation teams in place, have been shown to spout toxicity. make up) facts. .

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

They get chances to meet that they don’t because they attend different places of worship, or because they go to different schools, or didn’t attend school at all. is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. It’s free, secular, and encourages people to linger. at its core.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Among other things, brand SERPs include the most important pages on your site, your most recent social activity, your Wikipedia page (if you have one), and the latest news stories about your company. James is always happy to visit different places and meet new people there. He is especially interested in marketing, blogging, and IT.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It being 2015 the first place I looked is Wikipedia (of course) and found this: Skills Management. In several recent postings I’ve blogged (a lot) about skills and skill management. So what IS skills management? Terrific, a Wiki about skills management! This means other people are interested in the subject as well.

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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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. By their very nature, nonprofits exist to make the world a better place and to create positive social change.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. The hiring process gets the new employee in the door for a specific job, however the corporate work environment is a very dynamic place.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. The hiring process gets the new employee in the door for a specific job, however the corporate work environment is a very dynamic place.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defines skill. Why is Skills Management Important? In other words the abilities that one possesses. ”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I They're great places to organize ideas, write collaborative documents like mission statements or PR materials, and keep your organization running without having to have so many physical meetings. One is wikis.

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