Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
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. Does it suck?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 25, 2011
The current version of MS Server in use is Server 2008. source: wikipedia ). From my perspective, the underestimation of self-installed and VPS systems by the first measure far outweighs the underestimation of enterprise servers, because plenty of organizations and enterprises also install Linux behind the firewall.
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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 hard to control such an organic process, and control is something a lot of people really like.
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?
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)? In the 2008 Presidential election, Millennials voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by 66%-32%, while adults ages 30 and over split their votes 50%-49%. What does this mean for your nonprofit?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2005
Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 22, 2009
Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted. What About You?
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