Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

For example, what strategies would you use if your goal is to build your brand and grow your audience online? Here’s how I did it: First, I began by publishing a blog post with a content offer that was relevant to the article. For example, I’ve found placing brackets in my page title tend to increase clicks.

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This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. For example, you should prefer short sentences and simple syntax. Here’s an example from an ancient text, highlighting where those elements show up. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

For example, content creators can specify that their work can be reused, but not adapted or changed in any way. We therefore want charities and libraries to make maximum use of our articles, blog pieces, how-tos, tech-for-good news, and other nonprofit technology information. Do not modify (make "derivatives") of the article.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

And then there are all the articles, blogs, and videos that my Facebook contacts post every day. Here's an article posted by Amy Luckey at GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) that talks about the use of collaborative web tools to strengthen the relationships between funders and organizations. Grantmaking 2.0

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Everything else is just noise.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. For example, it's not out of the ordinary to see an exhibit displaying virtual representations of Van Gogh paintings, including Starry Night.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

So, you can imagine my utter delight when I stumbled across this phrase as I was reading an entry on Wikipedia: “This paragraph may contain unsourced peacock terms that merely promote the subject without imparting verifiable information.” The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. With just over 14 000 articles collected to date, the Muppets seem to have a host of loyal supporters who are ready to contribute information about the ???

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. HTML EXAMPLE. Mukono, Uganda: First Term Mobile Solar Computer Training Meetup for Kikandwa Primary School. Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Wellington, New Zealand: Learn to Sketch Your Ideas. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Saturday, April 4, 2015.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

So, you can imagine my utter delight when I stumbled across this phrase as I was reading an entry on Wikipedia: “This paragraph may contain unsourced peacock terms that merely promote the subject without imparting verifiable information.” The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

Some examples: Mambo Love Opera KD Creative Commons Spread FireFox Wikipedia Promotion SpreadOpen Office. Some articles analyzing campaigns or reflections. The terms applies to community-driven marketing and pr campaigns to gather support for open source software.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

I know what you’re thinking: I have no idea what a QR code is and that link to the Wikipedia article isn’t going to cut it. Beware : Before you plaster your office with QR codes directing folks to a mobile optimized donation form, check out this helpful article on QR codes gone bad. blog earlier this year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wearables have been around a long time; an example would be hearing aids or the Sony Walkman. Another example is the Philips Lifeline gadget from late night TV commercial fame in which an elderly person wears a monitor that calls 911 if they fall down. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. Where Wearables Came From.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

He wrote the article on the August issue of the TR on Continuous Computing called " Social Machines " definitely worth reading.). Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.) Check out Wikicities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

"Take for example. 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. If dealing with local article, this will be unique.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

Last week I saw a TechCrunch article about an SEO analysis tool that went BETA on January 20th called WooRank which has become a quick favorite. The current free version compares 50 fields but the soon-to-be-released version will have 120, according to the TechCrunch article. Author: Ken Cantu.

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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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Photo by Peacemaker. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

I encourage you to read the entire article. It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. There are many examples like this; perhaps you have some from your own organization. are changing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. In Shulman’s article, she points out the folly of a rigid sequential theory when it comes to learning (and my case, I’ll expand that to social engagement).

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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. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy. Beth Kanter, Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. My articles are locked down - our staff can make edits or corrections - but others can just read them. a month to create and maintain your own wiki site! a month to create and maintain your own wiki site!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Here’s an example of a great graphic for a Giving Tuesday campaign because it tells donors exactly how their gift will make a difference, and by providing 3 options, it gets donors in a shopping mode, choosing which one to give. On your graphic, share how the donors’ money will make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. This can inform.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? I try to write there at least 4 times a week. You mentioned that you do blog coaching.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. ” Let’s take the phrase, “ how to donate a car ,” as an example. Related Article: 8 Research-Backed Ways To Improve Marketing For Nonprofits. What Is Donor Intent?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The condor recovery effort is my favorite example of collective impact : organizations and individuals joining together, across sectors, to coordinate and direct their efforts toward large-scale change. As Kania and Kramer point out in their excellent article on collective impact, success isn’t lack of conflict or high marks on group harmony.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2010

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. For example, I used to work for a nonprofit called Global Exchange. Create a Wikipedia account.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

I’m sure we could find even older examples if we tried hard enough, but that’s not the point. According to Wikipedia, content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers (or donors, volunteers, etc. What is Content Marketing? inserted by me). .

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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. a conference).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? I like the article and diagram so much, I included it in the screencast. For example, I???ve ve tagged lots of nonprofit tagging examples with ???nptag??? sharpie.???

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