Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Search tricks can save you time by narrowing your search much faster. Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. Finally, YouTube is arguably the go-to place nowadays for really specific and short how-to videos. Search engines like Google and Bing will often be your first stop when you have a question. " So handy.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Citizen journalism.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Gift economies all have: Gifts are always free – If you go to someone’s house for dinner, have a great time, and at the end of the evening you say, “wow, can I write you a check for $56 because I think is about what it was worth,&# you’ve just breached the principle of the gift economy. Examples: Wikipedia.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The real-time, in the moment nature of social media increases the likelihood that donors will be inspired to give to your nonprofit on cause awareness and giving days provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote them effectively. Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful for online fundraising. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Now answer this, how much time is your organization spending on reaching out to Millennials (people who were born between 1981 and 2000)? Be honest, does your nonprofit create online advocacy and fundraising campaigns that are reactive or proactive? The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Here are some of the stats: Youtube: IBC Videos Watched 1 BILLION+ times = one of the biggest video phenomenon in the history of the Internet. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 million times in August, compared to an average of only 163,300 times per month between January 2013 and July 2014 = 18-fold increase!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

OpenBusiness has a post called " Getting Rich Off Those Who Work for Free " which is summarizing a recent article about this in Time Magazine. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. s big idea???that

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Over that time, I’ve seen a lot of different libraries, from both the back room, where I normally work in technical services, and the front in public services. is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. This is one way Bookshare brings worlds together. at its core.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here's a synopsis of the screenplay from wikipedia: During World War II , a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter Tono Brtko ( Jozef Kroner ) is offered the chance to take over the sewing notions store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman Rozália Lautmannová ( Ida Kamińska ) as a part of the enactment of an Aryanization. regulation in the town.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Do search at site for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. What is Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. YouTube - to host trailers and clips of the films we work with. Do you have the staff/capacity to give all the time that is required to get results? You've got a lot going on here!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year. nptech time you net2 We are the ones we have been waiting for, we have the tools to work together, let's do it. This post was written for the NetSquared blog.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. Everyone (or almost everyone) understands the “rules” of potlucks: bring enough, bring something that fits the time of day. application like MySpace or Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. It might be an exhibit that evolves over time, growing richer (but not cluttered) by continued visitor participation and contribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Finally, here's a video on YouTube on how NOT to use Facebook and not to mention also very funny. Expo Ignite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

There was no time to get in any more final edits and I feared that the book would be terribly out of date by the time it was released. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. and Web 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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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. Are the debates about what applications to use and which are a waste of time? These products are entirely virtual and are distributed virtually, so the time from launch to editorial review is instantaneous.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Participate, but don’t let this take too much time! Plan a YouTube video with recorded “I gave because” from your super supporters – with donate button. Timebox it.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That’s usually when they start complaining and say that Giving Tuesday is a waste of time. They ARE wasting their time by showing up at the last minute, lamely posting a link asking for money. That gives you enough time to think things through and dig into the details of your campaign, like: 1. They shouldn’t even bother.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Our clients have the freedom to leave at any time if they are unsatisfied for any reason. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? The best spend as much time reading about Google, FaceBook, and Apple as they do reading the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Teachers don’t have to pretend that Wikipedia, YouTube, and other online tools don’t exist, or aren’t used by their students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. The nonprofit will most likely not have a full-time IT or web manager staff person. Or, if they do, the nonprofit will not have a full-time Web Analyst , although might work with a web analyst on a consulting basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I discovered that if you google the word "Beth" my blog comes up first in the search results - most of the time. Occasionally, the "Beth" entry for wikipedia comes first or Beth Israel Hospital. Today, a youtube video called " Kiss Beth " appeared third.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

When a trend takes shape in the big city (for instance, for-profit companies), it often takes some time for ?it The giant, ubiquitous donate button (see Figure 1) is definitely something we’ve borrowed from the for-profit “Buy Now” button; I don’t see it going away any time soon. Borrowing For-profit UX. nonprofits).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Animoto :: animoto.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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