Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. in the left-hand navigation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Together with Microsoft, we’re excited to help foundations understand the donation program and how it can benefit your organization and the communities you serve. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And how can nonprofits and public libraries actually make use of it? Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Is a community-based data project actually considered "big" data?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. Love of the print book. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

"Our community health agency recently expanded into additional counties, causing a difficulty in conducting necessary meetings with our management team. The donation of GoToMeeting has enabled us to meet on a regular basis, keeping communication an important aspect of running our agency. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

When as the Bookshare librarian I fill out membership forms for different library organizations, I want to check all the boxes, as Bookshare is at once a school library, a public library and an academic library. is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. at its core.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Making the public-facing user experience feel seamless. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Wikipedia is the most obvious answer, but is it really ready to be a primary resource in children's education? Photo: Bright Tal.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? Thanks to Public Internet Registry (PIR), you can. These new domains are only available to genuine NGOs and are a direct result of efforts by the NGO community. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice. Did you bypass the options that looked like advertisements?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. First, you have to have the right story for the right publication. But how do you land a news story?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 27, 2007

Now it is an organizing space for people all over fighting the, "war against the neglect of public space." According to GuerillaGardening: It makes public space attractive Birds and bees love sunflowers too. Here's How: You will need a packet of sunflower seeds and a bottle of water Set out into the public. Why sunflowers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. 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. components, including a blog community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. In other words, I identify connectors across different "hubs" or communities that I want to track. In fact, I watched Laura crowdsource some of her presentation on FriendFeed. FriendFeed also has "rooms" that can be public or private - these feeds with discussion items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Third C: Community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Closer to home, Andrew Sears built some publicity with his piece, " How Google and Social Entrepreneurs Perpetuate the Digital Divide Among Nonprofits. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Andrew Sears suggests that you, "Immerse yourself in the community you are serving and learn from it."

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. You can find it online here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? Regards, Mike 2 Michelle Murrain 01.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? Regards, Mike 2 Michelle Murrain 01.03.07

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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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. NpTech Community. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Who's sharing authority and how?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry !

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. This translates to higher ticket prices, more blockbuster exhibitions, and less community engagement. We are uniquely situated to be these venues.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Create a PUBLIC calendar invite. Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. iCal : here is a guide for how to create your public calendar invite on iCal using the icloud login. Have them recruit a team of volunteers and super supporters from your network.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. In the Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. We are an international volunteer community dedicated to amplifying citizen media from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I noticed that you recently posted on the nptech community site , how did you discover it? I think nonprofits really need to use blogs to keep themselves on the public radar screen, to deepen the public knowledge about the issues as they unfold, and as a way to mobilize supporters. I don't know for sure.

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