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HOW TO: Update Your Nonprofit’s Wikipedia Page (and Why You Should)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now that most nonprofits have a Community Page on Facebook in addition to their Official Page, it is crucial that nonprofits create a Wikipedia account to edit, maintain, and “Watch&# their organization’s Wikipedia Page. Notice how the Community Page has a Wikipedia Tab? Create a Wikipedia account.

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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made.

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How Facebook Community Pages Undermine Nonprofit’s Official Pages in Facebook Searches

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And Wikipedia Tabs? Tags: Facebook. So, I searched Facebook for “Arbor Day&# and three Pages came up: 1) Arbor Day :: 79 Likes: www.facebook.com/pages/Arbor-Day/103129336394300. 2) National Arbor Day Foundation :: 99 Likes: www.facebook.com/pages/National-Arbor-Day-Foundation/103799689659272. Will keep you posted.

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Nonprofits of the Month :: June 2010 :: Beyond Disasterous

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Wikipedia :: Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Tags: Nonprofits of the Month. MySpace: Greenpeace. Flickr: SkyTruth. Related Links: Nonprofits of the Month :: May 2010 :: Holding Corporations Accountable. BP Logo Redesign Contest.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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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Linux has made it to Mars

The Verge

Ingenuity , a tiny helicopter, tagged along for the ride. Image: Wikipedia. In any case, Perseverance didn’t traverse the vastness of space alone. It’s also running on Linux. Here’s Ingenuity!

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RSS is really your friend

NCE Social Media

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 ). Tags: Tools rss ideaware feeds. Ideaware has an outstanding article on how to harness RSS to benefit your information needs. I would recommend reading it.

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