Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

That's the reason why TechSoup decided to adopt Creative Commons licensing in 2006. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. We are in pretty good company. Find additional astonishing Creative Commons stats on the Creative Commons website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Photo by Mushon. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. Today, many libraries have adopted a hybrid approach in providing access to information in which the physical institution anchors a complementary digital collection. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

A new copyright exception has been adopted nationwide just a couple of years earlier, the Chafee Amendment (also known as Section 121). Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. It would be great to see a critical mass of civil society / nonprofit oriented folks in attendance to discuss the issues specific to adoption in that sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information. Some of you may be wondering what the heck FriendFeed is as well.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Oh, memories.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Seattle, Washington: Know Thyself: Considerations for Nonprofit SharePoint Adoption. Toronto, Ontario: How to Develop and Deliver an Effective Pitch. Seattle, Washington. HR Essentials for the Accidental HR Manager. 501 Connects. Wednesday, July 15, 2015.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941. In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. Neil isn’t wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

It has adopted a cyber strategy in its own development that is sustainable and scalable. When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

It is the first-ever public dialog on fostering the adoption of Web 2.0 Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor's President and co-CEO, commented: 'Wikipedia, DeanSpace, MoveOn, Firefox Campaign, craigslist - none of these succeeded because they had faster servers or fatter pipes than anyone else. technologies in the nonprofit sector.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea. Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Many web-based applications and SaaS products are beginning to adopt [link] standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Sean's take, "Innovations in online philanthropy is often attributed to ???young young people???,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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

MARCH 21, 2009

I started using it 6 months after, but I didn't truly adopt the tool until 6 months later. Shel Israel, Twitterville Wikipedia Article on Twitter. My first Tweet: October 24, 2006 According to the TwitterFacts Blog , the first tweets of Twitter were sent three years ago today. What and when was your first tweet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. The growing adoption of wikis in educational. True adoption of Web2.0 Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. It's messy. Step 1: Find People. and the trends driving it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

based National Center for Charitable Statistics and adopted by the IRS back in the pre-Web 1980s. The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. They then got going on a revision of the NTEE code system that was devised by the U.S.-based

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. They are generally early adopters of new technologies and consider themselves to be global people. Only 1/3 of hyper connected people see themselves as early adopters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While nonprofits are often slower to adopt web design and marketing trends, there are several practices that are ingrained in the nonprofit design process that can be useful for commercial designers as well. Social media has opened up a new, extra-wide avenue to raise awareness about fundraising on behalf of a nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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 Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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 Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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 Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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 Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?"

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