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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings. It might be Wikipedia. but people aren't coming. This is museum digitization 101.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. It’s where you set the emotional tone, establish the context of time and place, and let the audience know that this content is for them. That’s not how we should approach editing.

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3 Reasons Your Nonprofit Website Needs Responsive Design

Connection Cafe

As a result, website experiences have had to change significantly—from the way websites are designed and developed to the Content Management System (CMS) used and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. This means that a site’s content and images respond to the dimensions of the devices its site visitors are using.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Most of the content was (and is) user generated. 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. . 'Net2 The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Google Maps.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza.com — promises to revolutionize mobile apps. Without Capriza, it currently takes months and lots of money to create a mobile app. Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week.