Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. We think it?s

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. ’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. A nice little utility that lets you embed google mymaps into your blog. Via LifeHacker , does google analytics make you say huh? Britt Bravo covers it here. Looking for a primer? Check this slideshow.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." Money, it's a drag.

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. A good collaboration between the state hospital and ngo. . Keywords are important, particularly in titles - if you want to show up in google. Needs an engine.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. Well, it's back. Am I hiring the right people?

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Professional China Script Search 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people. milllion blogs.

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. The winners get $65,000 in-kind contributions of consulting, hardware, and software.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Here is our guide to creating a remarketing echo chamber with Facebook and Google Ads.

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Ideas Giving Calendar Facebook 111

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. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

" Hinchcliffe goes on to give us a clear definition for social media with pointer to wikipedia's definition and emphasizes " The key here is that people are the ones that use and control these tools and platforms instead of organizations and large institutions." He lays out the ground rules for Social Media.

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Social Media Media Social Wikipedia 61