On the Internet, our challenge is not simply to find information, but to sift out the truly useful and reliable information needed to complete a task or accomplish a goal. Tags: General News Non-profit technology nptech Google research searc Three new specialized search tools are available (or will be soon) to help save your organization time in tracking down public records, demographic data, research and statistics....( read more ) ...Tags:

quot;It's always on, always with you and provides personal access to information." Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc (ISIS), a California-based nonprofit focused on sexual health, has been using text messaging since 2006. quot; In the first 25 weeks, the service had 4,500 inquiries, 2,500 of which led to more information and referrals. A Corinne Ramey, MobileActive.org Although Although nonprofits in the United States have been slower to embrace mobile phones for health purposes than the rest of the world, mobiles are catching on as a way to reach

If you have a catalog of any kind, be it books, products, article, or news you should look into integrating this tool so that your website becomes easier to search and navigate on your website as well as through external search engines. Those knowledge centers have relevant information and hence if your content is relevant, it is given a high content relevancy rating for each word that it finds. Much has changed since humanity acknowledged the word knowledge and started to classify the various subject matters into categories and taxonomies of learned disciplines. The The definition

For a long time people in the nonprofit sector that I work with have complained about information overload. In this following post, the author spells out information overload like a Vegas buffet. It is not a bad thing that all the information is there. I love this riff. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to overeat.

A few days ago Susan Richardson raised the issue of Sticky Information in her "Joining Dots" blog. On the one hand, we can be very lazy about acquiring information (Google trumps the local library for starters), spectacularly avoiding it when we don't like what it tells us. But on the other hand, when we find information that fits our expectations, it becomes very sticky and we are reluctant to let it go. I believe this has important consequences for information systems design.

In Part 1: How to Set Up News Alerts, we covered the basics of Google Alerts. Your first few Alerts may show a lot of irrelevant information mixed in with the notices about your website, blog, or cause. No problem! A few tweaks of your search terms can make Google Alerts work much better for you....(

Maybe even talk about Information Technology and learn about the challenges facing NGO's in your part of the worl Whoa! I've been absent from these pages a long time. There's so much going on my blogging has just gone by the wayside. Let's get back on track.

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DMA launches report into mobile marketing - News | THE DRUM - Advertising, Design, Media, Marketing, Digital, PR - News, Information & Jobs: "DMA launches report into mobile marketingBelow the line / UKMarketers must go way beyond the current regulations to win consumer confidence in mobile marketing, according to the findings of a study published today by txt4ever in association with the Direc

Since the one-line nature of the Twitter post limits the amount of effort that can go into polishing these "miniblogs", I'm getting a virtual hailstorm of information this way. There's no way I can begin to keep up with the flood of valuable information my friends are incessantly calling to my attention. Fixing Wikipedia Articles link [via Michael Gilbert's weekly Nonprofit Online News] More and One of the more common uses I see my friends making of Twitter is to post a link to an interesting web-based resource. And then there are all the articles, blogs, and videos that