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.”

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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.” Some good examples of disruptive innovations are streaming video (thanks, Netflix!) and downloadable digital music (through platforms like Amazon or iTunes).

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

“Fun” fact we stumbled across when Googling stuff for this newsletter: Wikipedia tells me that to “decimate” actually means “to reduce by 10%” and stems from the Roman army, where, as punishment, every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. We can create works with strangers, with anonymous crowds, and in all the other ways we're inventing. This is a very different sense of ours.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Podcasting has become a critical bet for many media companies that hope a cheaper investment in audio and podcasting might yield high returns in IP deals from streaming or video production companies. We do now have an eye on whether [a show] can be developed for TV because it’s become such a lucrative part of our revenue stream.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer. Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Streaming on Hulu. I’m a sucker for any and all of the LGBTQIA shows on streaming platforms — and yet, they rarely live up to my expectations. Streaming on Netflix. Streaming on Netflix. Streaming on Hulu. Streaming on Netflix. Streaming on Peacock , Syfy. Barbara Krasnoff, reviews editor.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

It will sound weird but not until recently–after almost 6 years of running companies in tech–did I realize that I AM an instance of “a woman in tech” I went to IT/physics streamed high-school, was always surrounded by awesome nerdy guys and girls, was a nerdy teenager myself. In a good couple of weeks.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

My review unit came preinstalled with a smattering of full mixed reality apps alongside a variety of apps (like Wikipedia, YouTube, and some Chinese video portals) you could pin as mixed reality windows. I believe that’s partly due to my second caveat: Nreal isn’t focused on creating immersive experiences or great spatial tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The Wikipedia definition -[link] – suggests in fact that the opposite is true, “From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream&#.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream. One of my favorite articles was "The American Family Grows Up" by Neil Pollack which describes how, "middle-class American families are being forced to live, almost entirely, without a net", which he exemplifies with a story about his son putting a rock up his nose. I chose UNICEF.

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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.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Is your nonprofit planning to participate on Blog Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. You probably noticed that about my tag stream. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! sharpie.??? Tagging can get sloppy ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! For others, the concept of ???public public information??? had connotations of finality, something you couldn???t t withdraw, something that once out there was set in stone.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

The team can win increased support from users by showing a steady stream of perceptible improvements. The book presents an approach to software project management that, with some changes and adaptations, I've found useful in working with many of our ongoing clients. In a minute I'll give the a five-minute intro to Scrum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. For blogs or content streams that are updated frequently, having a "top stories" or "titles only" view of the content is a good way to get right to the articles of specific interest to you. What makes this so great?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" non-threatening and inviting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

It lets you tap into a stream of people who care and may be committed to your organization, cause, program, or subject area. A tag is a label, but it's also a stream. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. master the reader first and start with just a few feeds to read. Discovery Exercise.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 Type a question and GPT-3 directs you to the relevant Wikipedia URL for the answer. percent of GPT-3’s training data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

But others may choose to customize the button to point toward other resources, like Wikipedia, Where to Watch information, a website, or parental guidance information. In trying out the app, Callsheet is easier to use than IMDb, we found.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I've been using it as a technorati tag at the end of relevant posts on my blog, I've been grabbing the delicious feed to watch what other folks are finding, and I've added nptech as a topic in my furl archive to contribute to the stream myself. It's such a huge field, we'll have to see how helpful such a broad tag ends up being.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Among other things, it has pushed Spotify to buy up the crown jewels of American podcasting , to reduce its head-to-head competition with Apple over music streaming.). Wikipedia editors are questioning what it means to be a platform committed to “neutrality.” For Spotify, Apple’s businesses could represent an existential threat.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

There are some nuances that are different about not having a video stream to accompany your enforcement techniques, but there’s a lot of shared attributes in moderation here. If I made the comparison to Wikipedia, would that be directionally correct? You’re building a sort of Wikipedia backend of labels that people participate in?

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Ars Technica

APRIL 2, 2025

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms like Wikimedia Commons , which offers 144 million media files under open licenses. But the real stress came when users simultaneously streamed a 1.5-hour

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